I have been carrying my Fitbit One for a little over two years with me and it keeps tracking my daily steps. It also tracks my distance covered by multiplying those steps using the stride length which you can either provide explicitly or implicitly setting your heights. In the winter ...

About a year ago I wrote a post describing average length of dissertations at the University of Minnesota. I've been meaning to expand that post by adding data from masters theses since the methods for gathering/parsing the records are transferable. This post provides some graphics and links to R ...

Naming conventions in R are famously anarchic, with no clear winner and multiple conventions in use simultaneously in the same package. This has been written about before, in a lucid article in the R Journal, a detailed exploration of names in R source code hosted on CRAN and general discussion ...

Occasionally I have to connect to services from R that ask for login details, such as databases. I don't like to store my login details in the R source code file, instead I would prefer to enter the my login details when I execute the code.Fortunately,...

The RcppParallel package includes high level functions for doing parallel programming with Rcpp. For example, the parallelFor function can be used to convert the work of a standard serial “for” loop into a parallel one. This article describes using RcppParallel to compute pairwise distances for each row in an input ...

The RcppParallel package includes high level functions for doing parallel programming with Rcpp. For example, the parallelReduce function can be used aggreggate values from a set of inputs in parallel. This article describes using RcppParallel to parallelize the inner-product example previously posted to the Rcpp Gallery. Serial Version First the ...