R-bloggers

(This is part 1 of n posts using this same data; n will likely be 2-3, and the posts are more around optimization than anything else.) I recently had to analyze HTTP response headers (generated by a HEAD request) from around 74,000 sites (each response stored in a text file). They look ... [Read more...]

This week in the High School Swimming State-Off Tournament we have the third seeded Sunshine State, Florida (3) taking on the sixth seeded Illinois (6) aka the Prairie State. library(SwimmeR) library(dplyr) library(stringr) library(purrr) library(flextable) Florida Results Florida has a nice results repository, with Hy-Tek real-time results. This ... [Read more...]

A fresh major release of the nanotime package for working with nanosecond timestamps is hitting CRAN mirrors right now. nanotime relies on the RcppCCTZ package for (efficient) high(er) resolution time parsing and formatting up to nanosecond resolutio... [Read more...]

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A new minor release 0.2.8 of RcppCCTZ is now on CRAN. RcppCCTZ uses Rcpp to bring CCTZ to R. CCTZ is a C++ library for translating between absolute and civil times using the rules of a time zone. In fact, it is two libraries. One for dealing with civ... [Read more...]

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RStudio is proud to announce the general availability of RStudio Cloud, its cloud-based platform for doing, teaching, and learning data science using only a browser. This general release incorporates feedback from thousands of users, based on more than 3.5 million hours of compute time. What is RStudio Cloud? RStudio Cloud is ... [Read more...]

In this post we'll talk about what the Central Limit Theorem is, why it's important, and how we can see it in action, using R. [Read more...]

This comes as the results of two external forces that have prompted me to do some work on the website — specifically the section on books. The first one is the newest version of hugo-academic (which is the engine underlying the whole of my website, together with the R package blogdown). ... [Read more...]

osfr provides a (hopefully) convenient R interface to OSF (Open Science Framework, https://www.osf.io), a free service for managing research developed by the Center for Open Science (COS). osfr completed its rOpenSci peer-review earlier this year and has been available on CRAN since February. Throughout its development and ... [Read more...]

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Finally, the R package you all have been waiting for has arrived - image.ContourDetector developed at https://github.com/bnosac/image. It detects contour lines in images alongside the 'Unsupervised Smooth Contour Detection' algorithm available at http://www.ipol.im/pub/art/2016/175. Have you always wanted to be able ... [Read more...]

Isabella C. Velásquez, MS, is a data analyst committed to nonprofit work with the aim of reducing racial and socioeconomic inequities. “It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and ... [Read more...]

Launch RStudio Server Pro from inside the Qubole platform We are excited to team up with Qubole to offer data science teams the ability to use RStudio Server Pro from directly within the Qubole Open Data Lake Platform. Qubole ... [Read more...]