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Introduction Making Multiple Plots on the Same Subject Preparing the Data Writing Functions to Generate Multiple Plots Making Custom Plot Themes Updating Plot Themes Introduction There are often situations when you need to perform repetitive plotting tasks. For example, you’d like to plot the same kind of data (e....

Daniel Hanson is a full-time lecturer in the Computational Finance & Risk Management program within the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. His appointment followed over 25 years of experience in private sector quantitative development in finance and data science. One of the most time-consuming, tedious, and thankless tasks ...

Introduction The tidycat package includes the tidy_categorical() function to expand broom::tidy() outputs for categorical parameter estimates. Documentation For full documentation, see the package vignette: The tidycat package: expand broom::tidy() output for categorical parameter estimates Hello World The tidy() function in the broom package takes the messy output ...

This talk was presented virtually at eRum 2020 by Appsilon engineer Krystian Igras. Here is a direct link to the video. Why Should We Explain Black Box ML Models? A vast majority of state-of-the-art ML algorithms are black boxes, meaning it is difficult to understand their inner workings. The more that ...

This useR!2020 session and video was organized by Laura Acion, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Paola Corrales, and Paloma Rojas Saunero. Leonardo Collado Torres coordinated the blog post submission. On June 19th, 2020,... The post Latin American Communities and Organizations: useR!2020 Video appeared first on R Consortium.

In this post, fourth in a series (previous posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), I’ll finally talk about some substantive conclusions of the following paper: Kissler, Tedijanto, Goldstein, Grad, and Lipsitch, Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period, Science, vol. 368, pp. 860-868, 22 May 2020 (released online 14 April 2020).  The […]

Photo by Mark Cruz on Unsplash The TIOBE Company just published the July edition of its TIOBE Programming Community Index of programming language popularity. R users will be pleased to see that R is now ranked as the 8th most popular programming language as shown in the screenshot below, having ...

We have been working hard behind the scenes on the upcoming release of our new git package named gert, a joint effort from rOpenSci and the Tidyverse team. One of the main features of gert is the out-of-the-box authentication mechanism, which is provided via the new credentials package. Among other ...

I am currently involved with an RCT that is struggling to recruit eligible patients (by no means an unusual problem), increasing the risk that findings might be inconclusive. A possible solution to this conundrum is to find similar, ongoing trials with the aim of pooling data in a single analysis, ...

All data transformation functions in dplyr can be connected through the pipe %__% operator to create powerful and yet expressive data transformation pipelines. Use the pipe operator %__% to combine multiple dplyr functions into one pipeline %__% filter(___) %__% select(___) %__% arrange(___) Using the %__% operator The pipe operator %__% is a special part of the tidyverse ...