XML in R – A (German) tutorial / XML in R – ein Tutorial auf Deutsch
I used knitr to hack together a very short tutorial about XML in R.It’s in German. And it’s not very long. But, hey, it’s free :)I hope it can be...continue reading.
Category: R News
Quick R tip: ggplot in functions needs some extra care
When building visualizations with ggplot2 in R I decided to create specialized functions that encapsulate plotting logic for some of my creations. In this case instead of commonly used aes function...continue reading.
LIBD video
Starting this week, I’ll be doing my research with the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) as Andrew Jaffe’s first Ph.D. student there. My main advisor will continue to be...continue reading.
Differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data at base-pair resolution in multiple biological replicates
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ggplot Tutorial
ggplot TutorialI liked the following ggplot2 tutorial which is featured in Gabriela de Queiroz’s blog called unbiasedestimator. The tutorial looks very neatly presented and I’m sure that it will be very...continue reading.
What does it take to be a good leader?
Leader: scientific or project In my mind before trying to answer this question I have to define leader. Right now I have two —possibly conflicting— leaders in mind. One is...continue reading.
userR2013 data analysis contest: data exploration
The useR2013 conference is organizing a data analysis contest, check the rules here. They have a package called useR2013DAC with two data sets: one from La Liga and the other...continue reading.
Keeping in touch (ENAR2014?) and philosophical questions regarding México’s future in genomics
The following text is an email I sent to several of my friends from the LCG undergraduate program I studied. There I talk about keeping in touch, I invite them...continue reading.
Speed Trick: Assigning Large Object NULL is Much Faster than using rm()!
When processing large data sets in R you often also end up creating large temporary objects. In order to keep the memory footprint small, it is always good to remove...continue reading.
Reading an R file from GitHub
Lets say that I want to read in this R file from GitHub into R. The first thing you have to do is locate the raw file. You can do...continue reading.
Using plyr and doMC for quick and easy apply-family functions
A few weeks back I dedicated a short amount of time to actually read what plyr (Wickham, 2011) is about and I was surprised. The whole idea behind plyr is...continue reading.
Epi vs Biostat Kickball match Spring 2013
This past Saturday the Epi and Biostat troops met for another fun kickball match. Obviously Biostat beat Epi, yup I know: again! This time the score was 15-8 (according to...continue reading.
Differential expression RNA-seq analysis with a large data set from brain samples
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derfinder
The goal of my Ph.D. with Jeff Leek and Andrew Jaffe at JHBSPH was to develop statistical methods and software that enable researchers to differentiate the sources of variation observed...continue reading.
Introduction to knitr
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This Day in History (1997-04-01)
Today it’s 16 years ago and 367,496 messages later since Martin Mächler started the R-help (321,119 msgs), R-devel (45,830 msgs) and R-announce (547 msgs) mailing lists [1] – a great...continue reading.
Have you been ‘relative stupid’?
I enjoyed reading “The importance of stupidity in scientific research” by Martin A. Schwartz which I learned existed through @hmason and @simplystats. I found the point of how it’s normal...continue reading.
“Do analytics really tell the whole story?”
“Do analytics really tell the whole story?” by Vic Ketchman explores how analytics is used nowadays in the NFL draft. The entry point is the “Moneyball” movie and Ketchman’s piece...continue reading.
Great commentary on sequestration’s impact on research! National media should talk about this and YOU should read it!!!
Today Jeffrey T. Leek and Steven L. Salzberg published a paper commentary in Genome Biology today titled “Sequestration: inadvertently killing biomedical research to score political points” (Leek & Salzberg, 2013)...continue reading.
New Citi ThankYou ballon TV commercial looks like a ripoff of Hello Kitty in Space
I don’t know about you, but I think that this new “Citi ThankYou Cards” TV commercial is trying to ride the popularity train from the “HELLO KITTY IN SPACE” video....continue reading.
