SocialDataBlog’s kind reference in post Horizon plots with ggplot (not) motivated me to finish what the post started. I knew that ggplot2 would be a little more…
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Horizon plots with ggplot (not)
The Timely Portfolio blog via R-bloggers has recently published some interesting entries about the value of horizon plots for visual comparison of a number of time series. …
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In the third and last of the ggplot series, this post will go over interesting ways to visualize the distribution of your data. I will…
View More ggplot2: Cheatsheet for Visualizing DistributionsVisualize Copulas
In those Copula codes you can get a rough idea what copula is, how to estimate and simulate it, how to test its performance, etc., to help…
View More Visualize CopulasCopula Functions, R, and the Financial Crisis
From: In defense of the Gaussian copula, The Economist “The Gaussian copula provided a convenient way to describe a relationship that held under particular conditions. But…
View More Copula Functions, R, and the Financial CrisisBivariate Flood Frequency Analysis by R Copula Function
http://r4hydrology.wordpress.com/ The joints distribution frequency analysis by copula family is presented with R code (example#code). The data used in this analysis were flood peak,…
View More Bivariate Flood Frequency Analysis by R Copula FunctionLearn R : 12 Books and Online Resources
R, an open-source statistical and data mining programming language, is slowly but surely catching up in its race with commercial software like SAS & SPSS.…
View More Learn R : 12 Books and Online ResourcesFor loops (and how to avoid them)
My experience when starting out in R was trying to clean and recode data usingfor() loops, usually with a few if() statements in the loop as well, and finding…
View More For loops (and how to avoid them)XLConnect : read, write and manipulate Microsoft Excel files from within R
XLConnect is a package that allows for reading, writing and manipulating Microsoft Excel files from within R. It does not require any installation of Microsoft Excel…
View More XLConnect : read, write and manipulate Microsoft Excel files from within RDATA FRAMES
DATA FRAMES Preamble There is plenty to say about data frames because they are the primary data structure in R. Some of what follows is…
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