Publications by Fellgernon Bit - rstats
rMaps Mexico map
It’s exciting when great people help each other get things done This is a simple networking story, which not be surprising to some but I was happily surprised by it. This is how the story goes: Two weeks ago rMaps (Vaidyanathan, 2014) was released. After making a blog post about it I thought about using it to make a map of the homicide rate in ...
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Simple mortgage calculator
Have you ever thought of borrowing some money? A common case is when you have to borrow money for buying a house, which is called a mortgage. Wikipedia (‘Mortgage loan’ entry) goes into much more detail about the definition than what I’ll cover. One of the aspects you have to evaluate when considering a loan such as a mortgage is how much i...
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Concerns that can deter potential orders for developing Shiny apps
A few weeks ago I was invited to a meeting where a group was interested in exploring options for replacing their contract with a propriety software. They invited me because they saw some resemblances between a Shiny application I made and the features they need. It is a relatively small project and it seemed feasible to implement, but well, some ...
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Where do I start using Bioconductor?
I was recently asked where do I get started with Bioconductor? and thought this would be a good short post. What is BioC? Briefly, Bioconductor (Gentleman, Carey, Bates, and others, 2004) is an open source project that hosts a wide range of tools for analyzing biological data with R (R Core Team, 2014). These analysis tools are bundled into packa...
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An xpd-tion into R plot margins
This is a guest post by Prasad Patil that answers the question: how to put a shape in the margin of an R plot? The help page for R‘s par() function is a somewhat impenetrable list of abbreviations that allow you to manipulate anything and everything in the plotting device. You may have used this function in the past to create an array of plots ...
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Use hidden advanced arguments for user-friendly functions
As a user Imagine that you are starting to learn how to use a specific R package, lets call it foo. You will look at the vignette (if there is one), use help(package = foo), or look at the reference manual (for example, devtools’ ref man). Eventually, you will open the help page for the function(s) you are interested in using. ?function_I_want_...
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Teaching a short topic to beginner R users
A couple weeks ago I was given the opportunity to teach a 1 hr 30 min slot of an introduction to R course. In the past, I’ve taught lectures for similar courses, and I ended up asking myself what would be the best short topic to teach and how to teach it. Best short topic There are two ways to answer the first question, one boring and one more ...
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Are you doing parallel computations in R? Then use BiocParallel
It’s the morning of the first day of oral conferences at #ENAR2016. I feel like I have a spidey sense since I woke up 3 min after an email from Jeff Leek; just a funny coincidence. Anyhow, I promised Valerie Obenchain at #Bioc2014 that I would write a post about one of my favorite Bioconductor packages: BiocParallel (Morgan, Obenchain, Lang, an...
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Are you doing parallel computations in R? Then use BiocParallel
It’s the morning of the first day of oral conferences at #ENAR2016. I feel like I have a spidey sense since I woke up 3 min after an email from Jeff Leek; just a funny coincidence. Anyhow, I promised Valerie Obenchain at #Bioc2014 that I would write a post about one of my favorite Bioconductor packages: BiocParallel (Morgan, Obenchain, Lang, an...
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Finding possible class schedules
Over the weekend my brother wanted to figure out his class schedule for the next semester. He is a veterinary medicine and zootechnology student at UNAM. For this upcoming semester there is a set of classes he has to take and each has 8 or so instructor options. The website where he finds the class times lists about 8 pre-constructed ...
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