R-bloggers

This post on R Views is about… Python! Surprising, I know. Python has several well-written packages for statistics and data science, but CRAN, R’s central repository, contains thousands of packages implementing sophisticated statistical algorithms that have been field-tested over many years. Thanks to the rpy2 package, Pythonistas can take ...

tidyterra provides tidyverse methods for terra objects and geom functions for plotting with ggplot2.

Introduction Since my last blog on Tesseract-OCR I have been playing around casually with it to see what it is possible of doing. Tesseract supports optical character recognition for over 100 languages. That together with straight forward usage for implementing it in R inspired me to try using it for Hebrew ...

The post How to add labels at the end of each line in ggplot2? appeared first on Data Science Tutorials How to add labels at the end of each line in ggplot2?, Using the ggplot2 R library, this article shows how to display the last value of each line as ...

Can you monitor user adoption for R Shiny apps? What is user adoption anyway? We’ll answer these questions and show you how to do it yourself in this article. Put simply, user adoption is the process by which new users become familiar with your product and/or service and ...

A videogame speedrun is a challenge to beat the game as quickly as possible. It’s time attack racing but for a videogame. There are, in my mind, two ways to make a run’s time go faster: Playing better and more smoothly (optimizations, having better luc...

Following a question on Stack Overflow trying to replicate a figure from the paper written by Alan Gelfand and Adrian Smith (1990) for The American Statistician, Bayesian sampling without tears, which precedes their historical MCMC papers, I looked at the R code produced by the OP and could not spot an ...

This post shows how to use nloptr R package to solve non-linear optimization problem with or without equality or inequality constraints. Nelson-Siegel yield curve model is used as an target example. Nelson-Siegel model using nlop...

I have this hypothesis that packages that introduce a unique syntax, or a workflow change, get adopted less by users, even if what these packages do is super useful. I’m going to discuss two examples of packages that I think are really, really useful, but sometimes I wonder how ...

Become professional at data analysis with tidyverse in R on June 15th! Learn how to extract, manipulate and explore your data with readable, streamlined and professional code using best-practices from the tidyverse R universe , such as those include...