Jobs for R-usersWay back in July of 2009, the first version of the twitteR package was published by Geoff Jentry in CRAN. Since then it has seen 28 updates, finally breaking the 0.x.y barrier into 1.x.y territory in March of 2013 and receiving it’s last update in July of 2015. For a very long time, the twitteR... Continue reading →
What’s an effective way of helping a student run a desktop application when their own computer won’t run the application, for whatever reason, locally? Virtualised software, running remotely, provides...
When I wrote the original post, I wasn’t planning on writing a follow-up. Certainly not the week after. But what a difference a week can make in a dynamic...
How much pollution reduction do we get from a MWh electricity produced by wind or solar power? In principle, this corresponds to the avoided pollution of a fossil fuel...
Here's a refresher on the history of the R project: 1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka 1993: First...
20.10.2017 Beside a massive of amount of R packages and ImageJ plugins Bio7 can be extended with Eclipse plugins useful for data science and programming. Some of them could...
In this post ‘Practical Machine Learning with R and Python – Part 3’, I discuss ‘Feature Selection’ methods. This post is a continuation of my 2 earlier posts Practical...
In the last two posts, I’ve focused purely on statistical topics – one-way ANOVA and dealing with multicollinearity in R. In this post, I’ll deviate from the pure statistical...
Week76 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold! The post Gold-Mining – Week 7 (2017) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics.
While there are hundreds of excellent books and websites devoted to R, the canonical source of truth regarding the R system remains the R manuals. You can find the...
At Plotly, we are commonly asked about thematic maps — especially county-level choropleth maps. This style of map provides a visual illustration of variation across a geographic area. Some pertinent uses...
One of the specialist smoother types in the mgcv package is the Markov Random Field (MFR) smooth. This smoother essentially allows you to model spatial data with an intrinsic...
Motivation On a previous post I explained how to install R on Ubuntu 16.04 without further complications. Now here are the equivalent steps on Ubuntu 17.10. The presented script also installs...
Ensemble learning methods are widely used nowadays for its predictive performance improvement. Ensemble learning combines multiple predictions (forecasts) from one or multiple methods to overcome accuracy of simple prediction...
Taxis are plentiful and convenient in New York City, but the city is also served by a wide network of commuter bicycles (Citi Bikes). If you need to get...
By Gabriel Vasconcelos The Julia programming language is growing fast and its efficiency and speed is now well-known. Even-though I think R is the best language for Data Science,...
There are many ways to query data with R. This post shows you three of the most common ways: Using DBI Using dplyr syntax Using R Notebooks Background Several recent package improvements make it...
A recent riddle that I pondered about during a drive to Luxembourg last weekend was about splitting a square field into three lots of identical...
19.10.2017 I released a new version of Bio7 for MacOSX. (Screenshots: Bio7 with Dark theme enabled. Scrollbars are set to “When scrolling” in the preferences.) For an overview of...
17.10.2017 A new version of Bio7 for Windows and Linux is available. The MacOSX version will be released soon, too. The application Bio7 is an integrated development environment for...
What a wonderful week at the Astrostat summer school in Autrans! The setting was superb, on the high Vercors plateau overlooking both Grenoble and Valence , with...
A new rOpenSci package provides access to data to which users may already have directly contributed, and for which contribution is fun, keeps you fit, and helps made the...
Plotly serves a large bioinformatics and biostats research community. These users leverage the uniquely interactive features of plotly charts for dendrograms, heatmaps, volcano plots, and other visualizations common in this field....
A new rOpenSci package provides access to data to which users may already have directly contributed, and for which contribution is fun, keeps you fit, and helps make the...
Note: cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog. If you hang out on Meta Stack Overflow, you may have noticed news from time to time about A/B tests of various features...
One of our senior data scientists, Olga Mierzwa-Sulima spoke at the userR! conference in Brussels to a packed house. The seats were full and there were audience members spilling...
R is an incredible tool for reproducible research. In the present series of blog posts I want to show how one can easily acquire data within an R session,...
For those who aren’t familiar with the colourpicker package, it provides a colour picker for R that can be used in Shiny, as well as...
The ROpenSci team has started publishing a new series of interviews with the goal of “demystifying the creative and development processes of R community members”. I had the great...
Jobs for R users
