CategoriesGetting Data Tags Data Management Plot R Programming Since the initial publication of the Three Factor Model by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French in their influential 1993 paper (Common Risk Factors in the Returns of Stocks and Bonds) a lot of academic research has been dedicated to the analysis of factors driving security returns. With the rise of quantitative investment management, this field Related...
The fine folks over at @PacketTotal bequeathed an API token on me so I cranked out an R package for it to enable more dynamic investigations work (RStudio makes...
We did a large machine learning project at work recently. It involved two data scientists, two backend engineers and a data engineer, all working on-and-off on the R code...
DBnomics : the world’s economic database Explore all the economic data from different providers (national and international statistical institutes, central banks, etc.), for free, following the link db.nomics.world. You can also retrieve...
A new version 0.4.8 of RQuantLib reached CRAN and Debian. This release was triggered by a CRAN request for an update to the configure.ac script which was easy...
Following up on the 10th anniversary and the 1.0.0. release, we excited to share the news of the first update release 1.0.1 of Rcpp. package turned ten on...
So it is approaching AFL mens season, which means that soon everyones twitter feed, Facebook and emails will get clogged up with various tipsters. People saying they have won...
I would like to once again recommend our readers to our note on wrapr::let(), an R function that can help you eliminate many problematic NSE (non-standard evaluation) interfaces (and...
FWIW “The chance of the setwd() command having the desired effect – making the file paths work – for anyone besides its author is 0%.” You should look into...
Introduction If the practical tips for R Markdown post we talked briefly about how we can easily create professional reports directly from R scripts, without the need for converting them...
We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical...
ggplot – You can spot one from a mile away, which is great! And when you do it’s a silent The post Adding Custom Fonts to ggplot in R...
The eight release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the thirteen-ish year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by...
As its been pointed out to me on that it would be handy if within fitzRoy that it should contain past players data from footywire. So here is roughly how...
Known user identity when building shiny apps can sometimes come really handy. While you can implement your own user login, for instance using cookies, you can also use some...
We at STATWORX use mostly R or Python for our projects. But why not both? With the help of the reticulate package we can use Python within R. Here...
Dirk Eddelbuettel just shared an important point on software and analyses: dependencies are hard to manage risks. If your software or research depends on many complex and changing packages,...
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Carl Jung We’re made of star stuff. We...
Welcome to post number twenty in the randomly redundant R rant series of posts, or R4 for short. It has been a little quiet since the previous post...
With much excitement built over the past three years, we are thrilled to share that sparklyr 1.0 is now available on CRAN! The sparklyr package provides an R interface to...
“EARL is a great Conference: it gives the opportunity of connecting with other companies that are using R for data analysis and getting inspired by their stories.” We have...
If you need to generate a randomization list for a clinical trial, do some simulations or perhaps perform a huge bootstrap analysis, you need a way to draw random...
In the previous post I tried to explain what Content Security Policies (CSPs) are and how to work with them in R. In case you didn’t RTFPost the TLDR...
Today is the Pi Day – an annual celebration of the mathematical constant Pi. It is observed every year on March 14, since Pi can be approximated by 3.14,...
In an earlier post I blogged how I had made a Monte Carlo simulation model of the Six Nations Rugby Tournament. With the final round of the tournament approaching this Saturday,...
Each time we have a case study in my actuarial courses (with real data), students are surprised to have hard time getting a “good” model, and they are always...
When you run an R script in RStudio today, the R console waits for it to complete, and you can’t do much with RStudio until the script is finished...
Here is a bit refreshed translation of my 2015 blog post, initially published on Russian blog platform habr.com. The post shows how to organize a personal academic library of...
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