Publications by Patrick Burns
The wings of a programmer
Programmers think programming is really hard. Non-programmers think it’s even harder than that. Figure 1: The perceived difficulty of programming. Why is programming so arduous? There are a few reasons. Here is one. Wings Programming is exacting, programming needs creativity. These are absolutely at odds with each other. One wing wants t...
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Review of ‘Advanced R’ by Hadley Wickham
Executive summary Surprisingly good. And it’s not like my expectations were especially low. Structure There are 20 chapters. I mostly like the chapters and their order. Hadley breaks the 20 chapters into 4 parts. He’s wrong. Figure 1 illustrates the correct way to formulate parts. Figure 1: Chapters and Parts of Advanced R. Introdu...
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Source for the marketAgent R package
I recently gave a talk at the R in Finance conference in which I introduced the marketAgent package for R. Here is the source for the package if you’d like to play with it: marketAgent_0.000.tar I’ll be giving more details of the talk real soon now. Update: The Portfolio Probe website now has a blog post on the conference. And here are t...
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Source for the marketAgent R package
I recently gave a talk at the R in Finance conference in which I introduced the marketAgent package for R. Here is the source for the package if you’d like to play with it: marketAgent_0.000.tar I’ll be giving more details of the talk real soon now. The post Source for the marketAgent R package appeared first on Burns Statistics. Related To...
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Probably the most useful R function I’ve ever written
The function in question is scriptSearch. I’m not much for superlatives — “most” and “best” imply one dimension, but we live in a multi-dimensional world. I’m making an exception. The statistic I have in mind for this use of “useful” is the waiting time between calls to the function divided by the human time saved by the call. I...
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Probably the most useful R function I’ve ever written
The function in question is scriptSearch. I’m not much for superlatives — “most” and “best” imply one dimension, but we live in a multi-dimensional world. I’m making an exception. The statistic I have in mind for this use of “useful” is the waiting time between calls to the function divided by the human time saved by the call. I...
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