I have learned from Mr. Yaakoub El Khamra that he and the good folks at TACC have made some modifications to TACC’s custom MPI implementation and R build in order to correct bugs in Rmpi and snow that were causing crashes.
UPDATE (4/8/2014): I have learned from Mr. Yaakoub El Khamra that he and the good folks at TACC have made some modifications to TACC’s custom MPI implementation and R build in order to correct bugs in Rmpi and snow that were causing crashes.
Here are the slides from my presentation at this afternoon’s Quant. Methods brown bag. I gave a very quick introduction to using R for conducting simulation studies. I hope it was enough to get people intrigued about the possibilities of using R in their own work.
It is well known that the partial interval recording procedure produces an over-estimate of the prevalence of a behavior. Here I will demonstrate how to use the ARPobservation package to study the extent of this bias.
UPDATED 5/29/2014 after posting the package to CRAN
Here are step-by-step instructions on how to download and install ARPobservation. For the time being, ARPobservation is available as a pre-compiled binary for Windows.