Miscellaneous documents

Some other papers

"The NMMAPSdata Package" vignette (with L. J. Welty), appeared in R News [PDF | software]. A longer version of this vignette (with more examples) is available as a technical report. Support functions referenced in the paper: simple.R | seasonal.R | tdlm.R. Please read the paper before attempting to use these functions.
"Estimation of the fire interval distribution for Los Angeles County, California" (with F. P. Schoenberg) [PDF]

I've written some notes on using the debugging tools [PDF] in R and on calling C code [PDF] from R. You may find these useful. Unfortunately, I lost the LaTeX source to these files so they are frozen and will eventually be outdated.
Some slides on classes/methods and lexical scoping [PDF] in R. By the way, lexical scoping is one of the best kept secrets of the R language. It might be the one characteristic that makes R a better language than S itself.
Some notes on reading large data frames into R.

My (not so) new office. More recent. Even more recent. Incredibly recent.
East Central U.S. weather maps.
If you are running a variant of Linux on your computer, you absolutely must install the Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts. Your web surfing experience will be greatly improved.
Rick Paik Schoenberg's Movie Ratings page
My brother Eric has an Astronomy Picture of the Day.
A survey of books on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Piled Higher and Deeper. A good comic strip for graduate students. If you want to know what I feel like when I talk to some of my friends from college, go here
Let's stop attaching Word documents.
Some notes on filing a dissertation at UCLA. These may be out of date.