This is the fifth in a series of lectures on R. 10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, we read in some datasets that come with R. To list, […]
R Lecture 5: Reading Built-in Data
2011 Per Capita Budget Highest Ever
President Obama submitted the 2011 fiscal year budget. If Congress passes it—and history shows that the approximate amount requested is usually granted—then this will be the highest the USA has ever spent, […]
Why Global Warming Won’t Go Away: Inertia
Rajendra Pachauri—chairman of the IPCC, railway engineer, and the man who penned these words, “Sanjay saw a shapely dark-skinned girl lying on Vinay’s bed. He was overcome by a lust that he […]
Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl Ad and the Washington Post Editorial
Very delicate ground, here. I want to be as precise as I know how in discussing the language used in today’s Washington Post editorial about the upcoming Tim Tebow ad, while trying […]
Welcome-to-Saturday Links
My heart soared like a hawk this week after several readers sent in fascinating stories. Here are a few of them. Reader Sara C sent in a wonderful example of how easy […]
R Lecture 4: Help & Plotting
This is the fourth in a series of lectures on R. 10 minutes is a shockingly short period of time! Today, we learn the R way to create comments: start lines with […]
R Lecture 3: Our First Program!
This is the third in a series of lectures on R. (DAV, I kept the intro for one last time.) Open the myRcode.R file we saved in our myR folder. Windows users […]
Two-and-a-Half Millennia Don’t Change Much
Herodotus begins his history by telling us that some Phoenician traders came to Argos, Greece and, on a whim, abducted the king’s daughter Io and took her to Egypt. Later, to show […]
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