June 2016

RMarkdown and Metropolis/Mtheme

June 30, 2016 | Thinking inside the box

Nick Tierney asked on Twitter about rmarkdown and metropolis about whether folks had used RMarkdown-driven LaTeX Beamer presentations. And the answer is a firm hell yeah. I have been using mtheme (and/or a local variant I called 'm2') as well as the ... [Read more...]

Plot a wind rose in R

June 30, 2016 | philmassie

Introduction This is another post regarding some plots that I needed to make for a publication. As before, I relied heavily on Stack Exchange and many other sites for figuring out how to get my plot looking the way I needed it to, and so this is my attempt to ... [Read more...]

The useR! 2016 Tutorials

June 30, 2016 | Joseph Rickert

by Joseph Rickert Over the years I have seen several excellent tutorials at useR!conferences that were not only very satisfying "you had to be there" experiences but were also backed up with meticulously prepared materials of lasting value. This year, quite a few useR!20i6 tutorials measure up to ... [Read more...]

3D density plot in R with Plotly

June 30, 2016 | Julyan Arbel

In Bayesian nonparametrics, many models address the problem of density regression, including covariate dependent processes. These were settled by the pioneering works by [current ISBA president] MacEachern (1999) who introduced the general class of dependent Dirichlet processes. The literature on dependent processes was developed in numerous models, such as nonparametric regression, ...
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Boost Your Data Munging with R

June 29, 2016 | Jan Górecki - R

This article was first published on the toptal.com blog. Additionally be noticed that my blog is migrating to new host due to GitHub Pages drops support for RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines. Old host will be still available but new posts will be published on jangorecki.gitlab....
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Boost Your Data Munging with R

June 29, 2016 | Jan Górecki - R

This article was first published on the toptal.com blog. Additionally be noticed that my blog is migrating to new host due to GitHub Pages drops support for RDiscount, Redcarpet, and RedCloth (Textile) markup engines. Old host will be still available but new posts will be published on jangorecki.gitlab....
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Computerworld’s advanced beginner’s guide to R

June 29, 2016 | David Smith

Many newcomers to R got their start learning the language with Computerworld's Beginner's Guide to R, a 6-part introduction to the basics of the language. Now, budding R users who want to take their skills to the next level have a new guide to help them: Computerword's Advanced Beginner's Guide ... [Read more...]

International Household Income Inequality data

June 29, 2016 | Peter's stats stuff - R

I’m at the New Zealand Association of Economists annual conference in Auckland. The opening keynote speech was from James K. Galbraith on a global view of inequality. He showed a variety of results from the University of Texas Inequality Project’s Estimated Household Income Inequality dataset, which I hadn’... [Read more...]

Express Intro to dplyr

June 28, 2016 | Stevie P

Working The Data Like a Boss ! I recently introduced the data.table package which provides a nice way to manage and aggregate large data sources using the standard bracket notation that is commonly employed when manipulating data frames in R. As data sources grow larger one must be prepared with ...
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Making “Time Rivers” in R

June 28, 2016 | hrbrmstr

Once again, @albertocairo notices an interesting chart and spurs pondering in the visualization community with his post covering an unusual “vertical time series” chart produced for the print version of the NYTimes: I’m actually less concerned about the vertical time series chart component here since I agree with TAVE* ...
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