It pains me to admit it, but even though I had visited their site, created...
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I’ve been tracking The Popularity of Data Analysis Software for many years now, and a clear trend is the decline of the market share of the bigger analytics firms, notably...
Plotly is a platform for making, editing, and sharing graphs. If you are used to making plots with ggplot2, you can call ggplotly() to make your plots...
For Christmas, I generally want electronic widgets, but after six months of development, all I wanted this Christmas was htmlwidgets, and Santa RStudio/jj,joe,yihui and Santa Ramnath delivered early with...
by Emilio L. Cano The VI Spanish R Users Conference took place on October 23 and 24 in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). It was a two-day event with a...
“The time has come to get deeply into football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed.”Hunter S. Thompson, Hey Rube Column, November 9, 2004I have...
OpenCPU server version 1.4.6 has been released to launchpad, OBS, and dockerhub (more about docker in a future blog post). I also updated...
Here are the most popular entries for 2014: 17 equations that changed the World (#2) 995 Le Monde puzzle 992 “simply start over and build something better” 991...
Future-proofing is an important concept when designing automated reports. One thing that can get out of hand over time is when you accumulate so many periods of data that...
I'll bet that in the very first "descriptive statistics" course you ever took, you learned about measures of "central tendency" for samples or populations, and these measures included...
I missed this when it was announced back on September 29, but R won a 2014 Bossie Award for best open-source big-data tools from InfoWorld (see entry number 5):...
Even though it’s still at version 0.4, the ggvis package has quite a bit of functionality and is highly useful for exploratory data analysis (EDA). I wanted to see...
Hey Mac OSX users with Java 1.8 installed. Did R just request a Java 1.6 installation and then promptly crash your session? If so, read on… The Problem A...
A new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service--which provides a modern, scalable and...
A guest article by Asher Raz, PhD, CareerHarmony Sometimes, data of subjects are recorded on a server (e.g. SQL server) as string data records for each subject. In some...
Conrad produced another minor release 4.600 of Armadillo. As before, I had created a GitHub-only pre-release(s) of his pre-release(s), and tested a pre-release as well as the...
I saw the post a time series contest on Rob J Hyndman's blog. Since I am still wanting to play around with some bigger data sets, so I went to...
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There are a few exciting announcements I would love to share with R community. We feel very honored to host meetup and class offered by Kaggle #1 ranked Data...
I put together a short intro presentation for some people explaining a little bit about R from an introductory point of view. Slides put together with R/markdown and ioslides....
I’ve put together an updated version of my partools package, including Snowdoop, an alternative to MapReduce algorithms. You can download it here, version 1.0.1. To review: The idea of...
This is an example from Zucchini & MacDonald’s book on Hidden Markov Models for Time Series (exercise 1.3). The data is annual counts of earthquakes of magnitude 7...
Introduction The purpose of this post is to show how to use Boost::Geometry library which was introduced recently in Rcpp. Especially, we focus on R-tree data structure for searching objects in space...
Tracing a regression lineDiverging density plotsHappy New Year plot Happy New Year everyone! For the last post of the year, I thought I'd have a little fun with the...
A new version of rfoaas was prepared for CRAN, but refused on the grounds of having been updated within 24 hours. Oh well. To recap, the rfoaas package provides...
Ever wonder what's the mathematics behind face recognition on most gadgets like digital camera and smartphones? Well for most part it has something to do with statistics. One...
A new version of rfoaas is now on CRAN. The rfoaas package provides an interface for R to the most excellent FOAAS service -- which provides a modern,...
Time lapses are a fun way to quickly show a long period of time. They typically involve setting up your camera on a tripod and taking photos at a...
qdapRegex 0.2.0 & qdapTools 1.1.0 have been released to CRAN. This post will provide some of the packages’ updates/features and provide an integrate demonstration of extracting and viewing in-text...
I have uploaded a draft of Chapter 3 — Plotting Fundamentals — for the Introduction to Fisheries Analyses with R (IFAR) book (note the new name). This chapter is meant to...
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