An interesting question (with no clear motivation) on X validated wondering why a Gibbs sampler produces NAs… Interesting because multi-layered: The attached R code indeed produces NAs because it calls the Negative Binomial Neg(x¹,p) random generator with a zero success parameter, x¹=0, which automatically returns NAs. This can be escaped by returning a one (1)
So all oceanographers are familiar with the results of gridding, even if they are not so familiar with the process. Gridding is, in general, any method that will take...
At useR!2019 in Toulouse, ThinkR opened a quizz allowing to win a pipe knight. About a hundred of respondents won this Playmobil. In this blog post, we review the...
As a blogger and curriculum developer, I am often writing about R from a text editor instead of RStudio. I feared that working outside RStudio meant saying goodbye to...
Introduction In a previous post, we had introduced our R package rfm but did not go into the conceptual details of RFM analysis. In this post, we will explore RFM in much more...
When we have many similar models to fit, automating at least some portions of the task can be a real time saver. In my last post I demonstrated how...
R is great for report generation. Shiny allows us to easily create web apps that generate a variety of reports with R. This post details a demo Shiny app that...
In the post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2019/07/14/yet-another-r-package-for-general-regression-neural-network), several advantages of General Regression Neural Network (GRNN) have been discussed. However, as pointed out by Specht, a major weakness of GRNN is the high...
In this post, I showcase a bare-bones point-and-click implementation of the classic board Reversi (also called Othello*) in the R programming language. R is typically used for more...
A new release 0.3.2 of the RPushbullet package is now on CRAN. RPushbullet is interfacing the neat Pushbullet service for inter-device messaging, communication, and more. It lets you...
We at Win-Vector LLC have some big news. We are finally porting a streamlined version of our R vtreat variable preparation package to Python. vtreat is a great system...
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your editor (i.e., RStudio). Category Advanced Modeling Tags Linear Regression Logistic Regression R Programming Regression analysis is one of the most demanding machine learning methods...
Understanding who you are is strongly related to understanding your family history. Discovering ancestors is now a popular hobby, as many archives are available on the internet. The GEDCOM...
This year, the greater R community gathering useR! took place in sunny Toulouse in July, bringing together over 1000 practitioners from both academia and industry. The event spanned over five...
While I was browsing the website of fellow R blogger Ryo Nakagawara1, I was intrigued by his “Visualizations” page. The concept of creating an online “portfolio” is not novel 2, but I...
Syntax highlighting Previously, I posted entries without any syntax highlighting as I was satisfied using basic blogdown and Hugo functions until a Disqus member commented in the previous post to...
Very often, seed scientists need to compare the germination behaviour of different seed populations, e.g., different plant species, or one single plant species submitted to different temperatures, light conditions,...
Flash floods seem to be increasing in many areas. This post will show how to download local USGS flow and precipitation data and generate a 3-panel chart of flow,...
The keynote presentations from last week's useR!2019 conference in Toulouse are now available for everyone to view on YouTube. (The regular talks were also recorded and video should follow...
Time series cross-validation is important part of the toolkit for good evaluation of forecasting models. forecast::tsCV makes it straightforward to implement, even with different combinations of explanatory regressors...
Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your editor (i.e., RStudio). Category Visualizing Data Tags Best R Packages Data Visualisation R Programming 3D Plots built in the right way for the right...
I’ve been building R shiny apps for a while now, and ever since I started working with shiny, it has significantly increased the set of services I offer my...
I was recently asked how to go about matching several datasets where different samples of individuals were interviewed. This sounds like a big problem; say that you have dataset A...
If you are like me, and rather last minute about making a plan to get the most out of a large conference, you are just starting to think about...
I have to confess that the core message of this post is not really a fresh saying. But if I was given a chance to deliver one dataviz advise...
Several dozen people have taken part in RStudio’s instructor training and certification program since it was announced earlier this year. Since our last update, many of them have completed...
This week my post is relatively short and very focused. What makes it interesting (at least to me) is whether it will be seen as a useful “bridge” between frequentist methods...
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