Rafael Irizarry from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has presented a number of courses on R and Biostatistics on EdX, and he recently also provided an index of all of the course modules as YouTube videos with supplemental materials. The EdX courses are linked below, which you can take for free, or simply follow the series...
Plumber is a package which allows you to create web APIs from your R code. If you're new to Plumber, you can take a look at www.rplumber.io to learn...
Proposed solution to Euler Problem 26 in the R language. Find the value of d Continue reading → The post The Viral Recurring Decimal: Euler Problem 26 appeared first on...
Ligature fonts are fonts which sometimes map multiple characters to a single glyph, either for readability or just because it looks neat. Importantly, this only affects the rendering of...
Part 1 of 5 in the series Numerical AnalysisNeville’s method evaluates a polynomial that passes through a given set of and points for a particular value using the Newton...
The ArCo package 0.2 is now available on CRAN. The functions are now more user friendly. The new features are: Default function for estimation if the user does not...
Data wrangling is a task of great importance in data analysis. Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It...
Hello R users, we've got a brand new course today: Writing Efficient R Code by Colin Gillespie. The beauty of R is that it is built for performing data analysis....
Jonah “ShinyStan” Gabry, Mike “Riemannian NUTS” Betancourt, and I will be giving a three-day short course next month in New York, following the model of our successful courses in...
Machine learning is often split between three main types of learning: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. Knowing the differences between these three types of learning is necessary for...
A new version of RcppAPT -- our interface from R to the C++ library behind the awesome apt, apt-get, apt-cache, ... commands and their cache powering Debian, Ubuntu...
The development version of my new R package seplyr is performing in practical applications with dplyr 0.7.* much better than even I (the seplyr package author) expected. I think...
The oem package has been on CRAN for some time now, but with the latest update I expect few structural changes to the user interface. oem is a package...
Hyperparameter tuning with mlr is rich in options as they are multiple tuning methods: Simple Random Search Grid Search Iterated F-Racing (via irace) Sequential Model-Based Optimization (via...
At RStudio, I have the pleasure of interacting with data science teams around the world. Many of these teams are led by R users stepping into the role of...
The source tarball for JAGS 4.3.0 is now available from Sourceforge. Binary distributions will be available later. See the updated manual for details of the features in the new...
If you use an API key to access a secure service, or need to use a password to access a protected database, you'll need to provide these "secrets" in...
How to take into account and how to compare information from different information sources? Multiple Factor Analysis is a principal Component Methods that deals with datasets that contain quantitative...
It’s Sunday, and I am just sitting on the couch peacefully ggplotting to illustrate basic sample spaces using spinners (a trick I’m borrowing from Jim Albert’s book Curve...
Blue dragonflies dart to and fro I tie my life to your balloon and let it go (Warm Foothills, Alt-J) In my last post I did some drawings based...
Statistics are often taught in school by and for people who like Mathematics. As a consequence, in those class emphasis is put on leaning equations, solving calculus problems and...
Here is a course with videos that present Multiple Correspondence Analysis in a French way. The most well-known use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis is: surveys. Four videos present a...
The new constants package is available on CRAN. This small package provides the CODATA 2014 internationally recommended values of the fundamental physical constants (universal, electromagnetic, physicochemical, atomic…), provided as symbols for...
In order to get the discount, simply click choose a link below and when paying use the promo code: JULY20310 Udemy is offering readers of R-bloggers access to its global...
I’m participating in the AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program (CEFP), funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The inaugural cohort of Fellows is made up of 17 community managers...
In an earlier post I discussed how to avoid overfitting when using Support Vector Machines. This was achieved using cross validation. In cross validation, prediction accuracy is maximized by varying the...
In an older post, I discussed a number of functions that are useful for programming in R. I wanted to expand on that topic by covering other functions, packages,...
This is the second in a series of posts designed to show how the R programming language can be used with cryptocurrency related data sets. A number of R...
This is the second post in our series on portfolio volatility, variance and standard deviation. If you missed the first post and want to start at the beginning with...
