You may have already seen a lot written on the replication of Reinhart & Rogoff’s (R & R) much cited 2010 paper done by Herndon, Ash, and Pollin. If you haven’t, here is a round up of some of some of what has been written: Konczal, Y...
You may have already seen a lot written on the replication of Reinhart & Rogoff’s (R & R) much cited 2010 paper done by Herndon, Ash, and Pollin. If you haven’t, here is a round up of some of some of what has been written: Konczal, Y...
I'm always looking for ways to download data from the internet into R. Though I prefer to host and access plain-text data sets (CSV is my personal favourite) from GitHub (see my short paper on the topic) sometimes it's convenient to get data st...
Update (10 March 2013): FillIn is now part of the budding DataCombine package. Sometimes I want to use R to fill in values that are missing in one data frame with values from another. For example, I have data from the World Bank on government deficits...
A big problem in reproducible research is that software changes. The code you used to do a piece of research may depend on a specific version of software that has since been changed. This is an annoying problem in R because install.packages only instal...
I've started to put together an R package called repmis. It has miscellaneous tools for reproducible research with R. The idea behind the package is to collate commands that simplify some of the common R code used within knitr-type reproducible researc...
Update 31 January: I've folded source_GitHubData into the repmis packaged. See this post. Update 7 January 2012: I updated the internal workings of source_GitHubData so that it now relies on httr rather than RCurl. Also it is more directly descended ...
Update 1 February 2013: I've moved all of the functionality described in this post into an R package called simtvc. Have a look. It is much easier to use. This is a quick update for a previous post on Graphing Non-Proportional Hazards in R. In the p...
I've wanted to create timeline maps with interactive googleVis Geomaps for a while. These would be a nice way to quickly show the spatial distribution of some data over time. It turns out that it's pretty easy to do with a plugin for Twitter Bootstra...
Update 1 February 2013: I've moved all of the functionality described in this post into an R package called simtvc. Have a look. It is much easier to use. Update 30 December 2012: I updated the code HERE so that it keeps only the middle 95 percent of...
The other day Critical Juncture put up an API for the Federal Register. I thought it would be great if there was a package that could use this API to download data directly into R (much like the excellent WDI package). This would make it easier to anal...
