A picture may tell a thousand words, but what stories can you tell with a moving picture? We've touched on the animation package for R before, but the blog "Using R" has some great examples of using it to create animations of various kinds. The animations are visual demonstrations of bootstrapping, coin-tossing, confidence intervals and (my favourite) the Newton-Raphson root-finding algorithm in action.
Using R: No success yet, then more animations…
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