Skip to content
  • Main website
  • Rationalwiki / Oliver Smith
  • Archive
  • Donation options
  • In the media
  • Relation to Søren Kierkegaard?
  • About
Clear Language, Clear Mind
  • Main website
  • Rationalwiki / Oliver Smith
  • Archive
  • Donation options
  • In the media
  • Relation to Søren Kierkegaard?
  • About

R

  1. Home>
  2. Programming>
  3. R
Read more about the article Installing R on Ubuntu 20.04: still too damn difficult

Installing R on Ubuntu 20.04: still too damn difficult

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. June 2020
  • Post category:R

Here's a whiny post on annoying R features. I love R and all, but it's obnoxious to install. Not only does it take a long time to compile so many…

Continue ReadingInstalling R on Ubuntu 20.04: still too damn difficult
Read more about the article Trying out tidymodels package

Trying out tidymodels package

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:16. May 2020
  • Post category:R

If you want to train machine learning models, R offers thousands of packages to try out. However, most of these are written by random students and academics, so they are…

Continue ReadingTrying out tidymodels package

Regression Modeling Strategies (2nd ed.) – Frank Harrell (review)

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:22. June 2017
  • Post category:Book review/Math/Statistics/R

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10753824-regression-modeling-strategies I heard some good things about this book, and some of it is good. Surely, the general approach outlined in the introduction is pretty sound. He sets up the…

Continue ReadingRegression Modeling Strategies (2nd ed.) – Frank Harrell (review)

Do you hate Python’s range() and want to use R’s seq()?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:11. April 2017
  • Post category:Python/R

I do. So I implemented R's function in Python. I wrote a bunch of tests for this for most uses I could think of and they all work. Except the…

Continue ReadingDo you hate Python’s range() and want to use R’s seq()?

Do music genres exist? An outline of an empirical approach

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:19. February 2017
  • Post category:R/Science

I don't have time to do this project right now. However, since I gathered a bunch of relevant resources that I don't want to have to re-find, I will write…

Continue ReadingDo music genres exist? An outline of an empirical approach

Renaming functions in R packages using roxygen2

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:30. January 2017
  • Post category:Programming/R

Naming things in programming is hard. I can see 2 reasons for this. 1) It is hard to pick a name you won't want to change later. With large projects,…

Continue ReadingRenaming functions in R packages using roxygen2

PSA: bugfix for the scoreIrt function in psych package, you should re-do your analyses!

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. January 2017
  • Post category:Differential psychology/psychometrics/R

I was working on a study and while doing so, I updated all my R packages. To my surprise, this changed the results in my analysis to a degree that…

Continue ReadingPSA: bugfix for the scoreIrt function in psych package, you should re-do your analyses!

SQL server for population frequencies from 1000 genomes

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. October 2016
  • Post category:Population genetics/R

Note: 2018 June 26 Server down right now, investigating. Note: August 16, 2017 server IP changed to 67.207.92.10. Original post We need dplyr for this: library(dplyr) First, use the anon…

Continue ReadingSQL server for population frequencies from 1000 genomes

ggplot2 functions in kirkegaard package

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:5. October 2016
  • Post category:knitr

http://rpubs.com/EmilOWK/215493

Continue Readingggplot2 functions in kirkegaard package

How to add names to choroplethr ggplot2 maps

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. September 2016
  • Post category:knitr/R

A brief tutorial on how to add names to choroplethr maps in R.    

Continue ReadingHow to add names to choroplethr ggplot2 maps
  • 1
  • 2
  • Go to the next page
Copyright - OceanWP Theme by OceanWP