Data wrangling : Transforming (2/3)
(This article was first published on R-exercises, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Data wrangling is a task of great importance in data analysis. Data wrangling, is the process of importing,...
View ArticleArCo Package v 0.2 is on
(This article was first published on R – insightR, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)The ArCo package 0.2 is now available on CRAN. The functions are now more user friendly. The new features...
View ArticleNeville’s Method of Polynomial Interpolation
(This article was first published on R – Aaron Schlegel, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Part 1 of 5 in the series Numerical AnalysisNeville’s method evaluates a polynomial that passes through a...
View ArticleLigature fonts for R
(This article was first published on R – Benomics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Ligature fonts are fonts which sometimes map multiple characters to a single glyph, either for readability or...
View ArticleThe Viral Recurring Decimal: Euler Problem 26
(This article was first published on The Devil is in the Data, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Proposed solution to Euler Problem 26 in the R language. Find the value of d < 1000 for which 1/d...
View ArticlePreparing for the Plumber v0.4.0 Release
(This article was first published on Trestle Technology, LLC - R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Plumber is a package which allows you to create web APIs from your R code. If you’re new to...
View ArticlePreparing for the Plumber v0.4.0 Release
(This article was first published on Trestle Technology, LLC - R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Plumber is a package which allows you to create web APIs from your R code. If you’re new to...
View ArticleData Analysis for Life Sciences
Rafael Irizarry from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has presented a number of courses on R and Biostatistics on EdX, and he recently also provided an index of all of the course modules...
View ArticleQuickly Check your id Variables
(This article was first published on That’s so Random, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Virtually every dataset has them; id variables that link a record to a subject and/or time point. Often one...
View ArticleQuirks about running Rcpp on Windows through RStudio
(This article was first published on R – Stat Bandit, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Quirks about running Rcpp on Windows through RStudioThis is a quick note about some tribulations I had running...
View ArticleWhat analysis program do conservation scientists use?
(This article was first published on Bluecology blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)International Congress for Conservation Biology: What analysis program do conservation scientists use?With...
View ArticlePackage bigstatsr: Statistics with matrices on disk (useR 2017)
In this post, I will talk about my package bigstatsr, which I’ve just presented in a lightning talk of 5 minutes at useR!2017. You can listen to me in action there. I should have chosen a longer talk...
View ArticleHow to make maps with Census data in R
(This article was first published on randomjohn.github.io, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)US Census DataThe US Census collects a number of demographic measures and publishes aggregate data...
View ArticleVisualizing Portfolio Volatility
(This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)This is the third post in our series on portfolio volatility, variance and standard deviation. If you want to start...
View ArticleSurprising result when exploring Rcpp gallery
(This article was first published on R – Stat Bandit, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)I’m starting to incorporate more Rcpp in my R work, and so decided to spend some time exploring the Rcpp...
View ArticleChart golf: the “demographic tsunami”
(This article was first published on R – What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)“‘Demographic tsunami’ will keep Sydney, Melbourne property prices high” screams the...
View ArticlePower analysis and sample size calculation for Agriculture
(This article was first published on R tutorial for Spatial Statistics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)Power analysis is extremely important in statistics since it allows us to calculate how many...
View ArticleHow to create reports with R Markdown in RStudio
(This article was first published on R-exercises, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)IntroductionR Markdown is one of the most popular data science tools and is used to save and execute code to...
View ArticleIEEE Spectrum 2017 Top Programming Languages
(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)IEEE Spectrum has published its fourth annual ranking of of top programming languages, and the R language is again...
View ArticleStan Weekly Roundup, 21 July 2017
(This article was first published on R – Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)It was another productive week in Stan land. The big news is...
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