Version 0.1.3 of the lintools package was accepted on CRAN today. This version brings a few internal improvements and switches the testing suite to the tinytest test infrastructure. lintools is provides basic manipulations of linear systems of equalities and inequalities … Continue reading →
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Before we start anything, I’d like to mention that most of the hard work came from nsaunders and his great blog post Idle thoughts lead to R internals: how...
Precision recall (PR) curves are useful for machine learning model evaluation when there is an extreme imbalance in the data and the analyst is interested particuarly in one class....
We’re pleased to announce blastula, a package for creating beautiful custom emails in R. At RStudio, we love interactive dashboards, but some situations call for a different communication mechanism. Use blastula...
This week I decided to get started with the R shiny package for interactive web applications. As an absolute beginner, I want to document my learning journey in the...
parcats was released on CRAN. It is an htmlwidget providing bindings to the plotly.js parcats trace, which is not supported by the plotly R package. Also adds marginal histograms...
Week 14 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 14 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.
One of the problems that we usually face with ggplot is that rearranging the bars in ascending or descending order. If that problem is solved using reorder() or fct_reorder(),...
Solving Advent of Code 2019-04 with R and JavaScript. Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code, as it gives solutions for solving day 4. I’m...
Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. In a previous article we illustrated how to calculate xgboost model predictions in-database. This was referenced...
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Modern movies use a lot of mathematics for their computer animations and CGI effects, one of them is what is known under the name fractals. In this post, we...
Solving Advent of Code 2019-03 with R and JavaScript. Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code, as it gives solutions for solving day 3. I’m...
Managing usual dependencies of a package is clearly covered in R packages by Hadley Wickham. Typically, that would be the end of a tutorial or a post. However, teaching...
Big up the NHS - Background The NHSRDatasets package made it to CRAN recently, and as it is designed for use by NHS data analysts, and I am...
We have good news for our commercial desktop IDE customers. We are giving the commercial version of our desktop IDE a new name and some great new features, including...
A recent topic of the Write The Docs’ great newsletter was READMEs. It read “As they’re often the first thing people see about a code project, READMEs are pretty...
We’re thrilled to be introducing a new member of our team. Mark Padgham has joined rOpenSci as a Software Research Scientist working full-time from Münster, Germany. Mark will play...
A major criticism on the binning algorithm as well as on the WoE transformation is that the use of binned predictors will decrease the model predictive power due to...
Solving Advent of Code 2019-02 with R and JavaScript. Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code, as it gives solutions for solving day 2. I’m...
learnr 0.10.0 has been released! In this version of learnr, quiz questions have been expanded to allow for more question types. Text box quiz questions have been implemented...
In the new edition of my R book, to be released in early 2020 (see current TOC, new packages and notification form), I’m giving special attention to its use...
The weekend riddle from The Riddler is rather straightforward : Construct a decimal number X between 0 and 1 by drawing the first digit a¹ uniformly...
One of the most consistent fonts of posts on this blog is The Guardian’s football trivia page The Knowledge. A particular reason for this is that the small contained...
Solving Advent of Code 2019-01 with R and JavaScript. Obviously, this post contains a big spoiler about Advent of Code, as it gives solutions for solving day 1. I’m...
R version 4.0 is just around the corner. One of the changes in the new version is the improved default color palette using the palette() function. Proposed colors The new proposed palette()...
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