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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…