Packages vs ProjectTemplate tl;dr Imposing a different structure than R packages for distributing R code is a bad idea, especially now that R package tools have gotten to the point where managing a package has become much easier. ProjectTemplate ?? My last two posts (1, 2) provided an argument and an example of why one should use R packages to contain...
Revisiting package dependencies
by Andrie de Vries In my previous post I wrote about how to identify and visualize package dependencies. Within hours, Duncan Murdoch (member of R-core) identified some discrepancies between...
2 new R jobs (for July 29th 2014)
This is the bimonthly R Jobs post (for 2014-07-29), based on the R-bloggers’ sister website: R-users.com. If you are an employer who is looking to hire people from the R community, please visit this link...
Fast-track publishing using the new R markdown – a tutorial and a quick look behind the scenes
The new R Markdown (rmarkdown-package) introduced in Rstudio 0.98.978 provides some neat features by combining the awesome knitr-package and the pandoc-system. The system allows for some neat simplifications of...
Hit and run. Think Bayes!
At the R in Insurance conference Arthur Charpentier gave a great keynote talk on Bayesian modelling in R. Bayes' theorem on conditional probabilities is strikingly simple,...
analyze the fda adverse event reporting system (faers) with r
doctors prescribe medications for patients all the time. all the time. sometimes the results are beneficial, other times the drug has no discernible effect, but occasionally those substances actually...
Creating an analysis as a package and vignette
Creating an analysis as a package and vignette Following from my last post, I am going to go step by step through the process I use to generate an...
Volatility Histeresis: A First Attempt
So the last time that a FRAMA strategy was tried with price crossovers, the problem was that due to counter-trending … Continue reading →
Clipping spatial data in R
This miniature vignette shows how to clip spatial data based on different spatial objects in R and a ‘bounding box’. Spatial overlays are common in GIS applications and R...
Comment on Sustainability and innovation in staple crop production in the US Midwest
After writing a blog post about the paper “Sustainability and innovation in staple crop production in the US Midwest” I decided to submit a formal comment to the International...
jpmml and R (Free Webinar)
This free, global webinar will provide an introduction to jpmml, the world’s leading open-source PMML scoring engine currently being utilized by companies such as Airbnb to rapidly deploy predictive...
The Pay-for-Performance Myth
Last week, Eric Chemi and Ariana Giorgi published an interesting article on “The Pay-for-Performance Myth” With all the public chatter about exorbitant executive compensation and income inequality, it’s useful to...
EARL and other upcoming events
Highlighted EARL As in “Effective Applications of the R Language”. 2014 September 15-17, London. Somehow they gave higher billing to Ben Goldacre than to Pat Burns. If Obama were...
Pie Charts. Are they worth the Fight?
Like Rob, I recently got back from ICOTS. What a great conference. Kudos to everyone who worked hard to organize and pull it off. In one of the sessions...
Reuters uses R to report on surge in coastal flooding in US
As global warming causes sea levels to rise, the risk of flooding for coastal settlements also rises over time. A recent analysis by Reuters find that incidents of coastal...
Analyses as Packages
Analyses as Packages TL;DR Instead of writing an analysis as a single or set of R scripts, use a package and include the analysis as a vignette of the package. Read...
a:class <- b
Usually in strongly typed languages, like C++, the type of a variable comes before the variable, e.g.: int x = 23 ; So x is declared of...
Who wants to disrupt R training and R education?
Using EdTech applications as an academic, R trainer or training company is no longer a unique selling proposition, but a must-have commodity. In this post, we introduce the new DataCamp course creation...
Analyzing package dependencies and download logs from Rstudio, and a start towards building an R recommendation engine
In this post, I will focus on the analysis of available R packages and the behavior of its users. In essence, this involves looking at the data in two...
Coffee and Productivity
On Twitter, I was asked if there were serious research papers published on coffee consumption and labour productivity. There are some papers on coffee breaks and productivity, e.g. Productivity Through...
Shifting Centre of Gravity of US Fossil Fuel Production
My research Fracking Growth investigates the localised impacts of the current oil and gas production boom in the US. The boom is triggered by extraction of oil and gas deposits,...
Guns are Cool – States
Last week I looked at time effects of the shootingtracker database. This week I will look at the states. Some (smaller) states never made it on the database. Other...
User Request – Shepards Classification of Sediments
I received a request overnight on how to render the Shepard’s classification diagram, which is an alternative to the USDA’s textural soil classification. This is quite simple to produce...
A Few Notes on UseR! 2014
It has been a month since the UseR! 2014 conference, and I'm probably the last one who writes about it. UseR! is my favorite conference because it is technical...
library() vs require() in R
While I was sitting in a conference room at UseR! 2014, I started counting the number of times that require() was used in the presentations, and would rant about...
A package about nothing
nothing is a package about nothing. The idea is that when you do require(nothing) you express that you don't need anything, and therefore nothing assumes you...
Learning from alternative R engines at DSC 2014
I was honoured to be invited earlier this month to the Directions of Statistical Computing meeting in Brixen, Italy. DSC is one of two meetings run by the R...
Things to try after useR! – Part 1: Deep Learning with H2O
Annual R User Conference 2014The useR! 2014 conference was a mind-blowing experience. Hundreds of R enthusiasts and the beautiful UCLA campus, I...
Plotly: collaborative, publication-quality graphing.
