Saturday, February 21, 2009
Another useful R-related website is the Sweave Homepage, where you can learn about a cool software package that combines R and LaTeX. Using Sweave, you can, for example, embed an R plot in your LaTeX document in such a way that when you change the plot in your R source code, the image changes [...]
Friday, February 20, 2009
This is a simply amazing collection of R graphics examples with full source code: I’ll never go hungry again! This should be enough to convince almost anyone to use R. And did I mention it’s free? (hat tip: Andrew Gelman)
In celebration of this momentous discovery, here are some of my favorite R-related links:
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
After my recent philosophy of science kick, I’ve been taking a look at some (slightly heretical) views of economic methodology:
The Rhetoric of Economics, by Deirdre McCloskey
Knowledge and Persuasion in economics, by Deirdre McCloskey
McCloskey’s Rhetoric: Discourse Ethics in Economics, by Benjamin Balak
Economics and Reality, by Tony Lawson
Reorienting Economics, by Tony [...]
Sunday, February 15, 2009
This happens to me all the time: I have a really long equation and need to split it over several lines. My crappy solution to this problem so far has been to use eqnarray. It’s clumsy and the alignment doesn’t work out properly.
So here’s the solution! Use the ams packages, and the [...]
