Scientific replication, or verifying the results of an experiment by an independent researcher, is one of the pillars of the scientific method and is one of the strongest ways to strengthen a scientific claim. In one of the earliest examples of replication, Christiaan Huygens traveled to the the …

A few months ago I reviewed a new book on R, called Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R, Second Edition, by Owen Jones, Robert Maillardet, and Andrew Robinson. I liked the book — R is becoming more popular and widely used as a language and tool to parse and process the …

If you are at least tangentially involved in processing, analyzing, and learning from data, then you are probably familiar with the free statistical programming language and software environment known as R. But R can do a lot more than plot data and perform hypothesis tests–the new book …