Publications by mages
googleVis 0.2.9
We have published googleVis 0.2.9 on CRAN. The new version updates the package for the new features of the Google Visualisation API and brings an new in-page editor option. Here is a simple example, displaying the participants of the R user Conference 2011 in Warwick by Country. Notice the ‘Edit me’ button in the top left corner ...
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Including googleVis output into a blogger post
It seems that you cannot include Google Visualisation Charts into a blog post directly.So, I tried to include the output of a googleVis function as a gadget, but also unsuccessful.Although you can include gadgets into your site template, it doesn’t seem to work with blog posts. So, here is the trick which works for me: the iframe ta...
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LondonR, 7 September 2011
On 7 September 2011 I attended the London R user group meeting. It was a very good turn out with about 50 attendees at the Shooting Star, a pub close to Liverpool Street Station. The session started at 18:00 with four presentations, followed by drinks sponsored by Mango Solutions. The slides of the presentation should be available on ...
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R in the insurance industry
Let’s talk about R in the insurance industry today. David Smith’s blog entry reminded me about our poster at the R user conference in Warwick in August 2011:Using R in InsuranceWe presented examples on how R can be used in the insurance industry. We had a lot of fun presenting our poster. By accident we had printed the post...
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Accessing and plotting World Bank data with R
Over the past couple of days I played around with the data sets of the World Bank, and I have to admit that I am blown away by it. It is amazing, to see what is available on their web site. It is worth visiting their Data Visualisation Tools page. It is fantastic that they provide an API to their data. They have used it to build an iP...
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Setting the initial view of a motion chart in R
Following on from my article about accessing and plotting World Bank data with R I want to talk about how to change the initial view of a motion chart.Over the last couple of weeks I have been asked a view times how to do this. For instance Stephen O’Grady wanted to create a motion chart, which shows initially a line chart, rather t...
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R related books: Traditional vs online publishing
How many R related books have been published so far? Who is the most popular publisher? How many other manuals, tutorials and books have been published online? Let’s find out. A few years ago I used the publication list on r-project.org as an argument that R is an established statistical programming language. I believe at the time t...
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Using Sweave with XeLaTeX
Using R with LaTeX via Sweave is a great way to create reproducible output. However, using specific fonts, e.g. your corporate fonts, can be painful with pdflatex. Over the last few weeks I have fallen in love with the TeX formatXeLaTeX and its XeTeX engine.With XeLaTeX I had to overcome some hurdles, which I would like to share here:...
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Installing R 2.14.0 on an iBook G4 running Mac OS 10.4.11
My 12″ iBook G4 is celebrating its 8th birthday today! Time for a little present. How about R 2.14.0?The iBook is still in daily use, mostly for browsing the web, writing e-mails and this blog; and I still use it for R as well. For a long time it run R 2.10.1, the last PowerPC binary version available on CRAN for Mac OS 10.4.11 (Tig...
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Stochastic reserving with R: ChainLadder 0.1.5-1 released
Today we published version 0.1.5-1 of the ChainLadder package for R. It provides methods which are typically used in insurance claims reserving to forecast future claims payments.Claims development and chain-ladder forecast of the RAA data set using the Mack methodThe package started out of presentations given at the Stochastic Reserv...
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