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 […]
Create Tax Refunds That Must Be Donated To Political Parties?
In the State of the Union address, President Obama thought it would be pleasant to slam the Supreme Court, shaming them for their recent Citizens United v. FEC decision. Our Leader claimed […]
R Lecture 2: Prepping a Folder
Main page for R Lectures. This is the second in a series of lectures on R. R is command-line software. We need to type in commands. These commands should be SAVED so […]
R Lecture 1: Installing R
Main page for R Lectures. This is the first in a series of lectures on R. For most of my regular readers, this entry will be on the too-simple end of the […]
R Lectures
R Lectures from wmbriggs.com This is the homepage for the links to all of the R lectures. Look for this on the main page under Statistics. Each lecture is followed by a […]
What Do Barney Miller and IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri Have In Common?
In 1977, on the Barney Miller episode “Blizzard”—for those under 40: a cop sitcom—a man who was poking people with a sharp stick was arrested. The man wanted to bring “awareness” to […]
Astroturfing Explosion: Who Did It?
Somebody—or some bodies—have been planting pro-Obama stories at newspapers all over the world. The pen names of that body are Ellie Light, Mark Spivey, Gloria Elle, and Jan Chen. That is, these […]
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