# Posts Tagged ‘ code ’

## Randomized Hobbit

June 22, 2015
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@wrathematics pointed me to his ngram R package for constructing and simulating from n-grams from text. I’d recently grabbed the text of the hobbit, and so I applied it to that text, with amusing results. Here’s the code I used to grab the text. Then calculate the ngrams with n=2. Simulate some number of words […]

September 5, 2014
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I’m enthusiastic about having R notify me when my script is done. But among my early uses of this, my script threw an error, and I never got a text or pushbullet about that. And really, I’m even more interested in being notified about such errors than anything else. It’s relatively easy to get notified […]

September 3, 2014
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You just sent a long R job running. How to know when it’s done? Have it notify you by beeping, sending you a text, or sending you a notification via pushbullet. beepr You can use Rasmus Bååth’s beepr package to have your computer play a sound. Install it from CRAN with Then, at the bottom […]

## Why hadn’t I written a function for that?

July 17, 2014
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I’m often typing the same bits of code over and over. Those bits of code really should be made into functions. For example, I’m still using base graphics. (ggplot2 is on my “to do” list, really!) Often some things will be drawn with a slight overlap of the border of the plotting region. And in […]

## hipsteR: re-educating people who learned R before it was cool

May 15, 2014
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This morning, I started a tutorial for folks whose knowledge of R is (like mine) stuck in 2001. Yesterday I started reading the Rcpp book, and on page 4 there’s an example using the R function replicate, which (a) I’d never heard before, and (b) is super useful. I mean, I often write code like […]

## Further points on crayon colors

May 9, 2014
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I saw this great post on crayola crayon colors at the Learning R blog, reproducing a nice graph of the Crayola crayon colors over time. (Also see this even nicer version.) The Learning R post shows how to grab the crayon colors from the wikipedia page, “List of Crayola crayon colors,” directly in R. Here’s […]

## Two more points about crayon colors

May 8, 2014
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If you want to use crayon colors in R but you don’t want to rely on my R/broman package, you can just grab the code. Copy the relevant lines from the R/brocolors.R file: I spent a bit of time thinking about how best to sort the colors in a meaningful way, for the plot_crayons() function. […]

## “[” with the apply() functions, revisited

April 30, 2014
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I’d mentioned in the fall that one could use "[" in the apply-type functions, like this: I just realized that you can use this with matrices, too. If you have a list of matrices, you can pull out rows and columns with this technique. As you can see, my data isn't “tidy.”

## Summary stats for ABC

September 1, 2013
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$Summary stats for ABC$

Introduction In the previous post I gave a very brief introduction to ABC, including a simple example for inferring the parameters of a Markov process given some time series observations. Towards the end of the post I observed that there were (at least!) two potential problems with scaling up the simple approach described, one relating […]

## Summary stats for ABC

September 1, 2013
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$Summary stats for ABC$

Introduction In the previous post I gave a very brief introduction to ABC, including a simple example for inferring the parameters of a Markov process given some time series observations. Towards the end of the post I observed that there were (at least!) two potential problems with scaling up the simple approach described, one relating […]