httr 0.4 is now available on CRAN. The httr packages makes it easy to talk to web APIs from R. The most important new features are two new vignettes to help you get started and to help you make wrappers for web APIs. Other important improvements include: New headers() and cookies() functions to extract headers 
I was recently writing a function which was going to need to deal with NAs in some kind of semi-intelligent way. I wanted to test it with some fake...
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Second day at the Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics and the workshop. Maybe not the most exciting day in terms of talks (as I missed the first two plenary...
Several blog posts have made mention of the 'magrittr' package which allows functional arguments to be passed to functions in a pipes style fashion (David Smith ).This stylistic option...
R is a very powerful language for creating custom data visualizations, but during the development process sometimes you make a mistake and things go horribly wrong. But sometime serendipity...
I’ve updated some of the graphical displays of the ideal point estimates I serve up here. I’ve rendered some of these in d3, with some rollover lah-de-dah: (1) 113th...
Inspired by events that took place at UseR 2014 last month I decided to implement an app that estimates one’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC). Today I present to...
I wanted to learn how to bind a C library to R, so I've created the following bindings for BWA. My code is available on github at :https://github.com/lindenb/rbwaMost of...
Some time ago, I was contacted from guys at Packt Publishing. Their just published the Building Interactive Graphs with ggplot2 and Shiny online course and they ask me my (humble) opinion....
Warning: this post contains profanity...arguably excessive amounts of it. If you are a humorless no-fun, you are recommended to proceed no further. Seriously though, the title is quite descriptive...
Have you ever used a markdown file to create an html file? Have you ever wanted to quickly format the subsequent html file to add some color or...
Will you have that segmentation with one or two modes?The data matrix for market segmentation comes to us with two modes, the rows are consumers and the columns are...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 Following from my last post, I am going to go step by step through the process I use to generate an...
So the last time that a FRAMA strategy was tried with price crossovers, the problem was that due to counter-trending … Continue reading →
Data caching is not new. It is often necessary to save intermediate data files when the process of loading and/or manipulating data takes a considerable amount of time. This...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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