Publications by Slawa Rokicki

Loops revisited: How to rethink macros when using R

04.10.2013

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ggplot2: Cheatsheet for Scatterplots

13.11.2013

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ggplot2: Cheatsheet for Barplots

09.01.2014

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ggplot2: Cheatsheet for Visualizing Distributions

18.02.2014

In the third and last of the ggplot series, this post will go over interesting ways to visualize the distribution of your data. I will make up some data, and make sure to set the seed. library(ggplot2) library(gridExtra) set.seed(10005) xvar <- c(rnorm(1500, mean = -1), rnorm(1500, mean = 1.5)) yvar <- c(rnorm(1500, mean = 1), r...

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How to write and debug an R function

08.06.2014

I’ve been asked on a few occasions what is the deal with R user-written functions. First of all, how does the syntax work? And second of all, why would you ever want to do this? In Stata, we don’t write functions; we execute built-in commands like browse or gen or logit. You can write an .ado file to make a new command but ...

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3 ways that functions can improve your R code

07.07.2014

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Easy Clustered Standard Errors in R

20.10.2014

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Animations and GIFs using ggplot2

26.12.2014

Tracing a regression lineDiverging density plotsHappy New Year plot Happy New Year everyone! For the last post of the year, I thought I’d have a little fun with the new animation package in R. It’s actually really easy to use. I recently had some fun with it when I presented my research at an electronic poster session, and had an animated mov...

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Basics of Lists

09.03.2015

Lists are a data type in R that are perhaps a bit daunting at first, but soon become amazingly useful. They are especially wonderful once you combine them with the powers of the apply() functions. This post will be part 1 of a two-part series on the uses of lists. In this post, we will discuss the basics – how to create lists, manipulate them,...

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How to use lists in R

25.08.2015

In the last post, I went over the basics of lists, including constructing, manipulating, and converting lists to other classes. Knowing the basics, in this post, we’ll use the apply() functions to see just how powerful working with lists can be. I’ve done two posts on apply() for dataframes and matrics, here and here, so give th...

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