Today’s “How to teach yourself R lesson” involves calculating annual average temperatures from a string of daily temperatures. The average temperatures, which I must observe, look fairly trendless are plotted to the right. That said, there may be a trend buried in there. If so, it’s sufficiently small to require teasing out using statistics. Now, [...]
If you use R any length of time, you will soon learn that many functions you want to use exist in extensions called packages. What is a package? The R project has a main program that includes the default function many analysts use to plot, calculate and perform common tasks. It also permits programmers to [...]
This post describes what I did to make the very first file I read into the R project statistics package readable. If you obtain a file from some database, it is likely it will not be in a form suitable for reading into R and this may help you. Because I never feel confident I’ve [...]
Teaching myself R at home, with no resources other than the web is a bit daunting. But, I’m up for it. My step was to download the manual: An introduction to R Inside, I find these section titles: Preface. Introduction and Preliminaries Simple Manipulations, numbers, vectors. Objects, their modes and attributes. Ordered and unordered factors. [...]
I plan to post random musings here. Currently, I’m teaching myself, ‘R’ a statistical package. In the process, I’ll be learning more about the climate of Växjö, Sweden that anyone could possible wish to know. I obtained a series of temperature profiles from: The European Climate Assessment Database. The data are contained in the file [...]
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