This post is by Jonah. Last week I posted here about the release of version 2.0.0 of the loo R package, but there have been a few other recent releases and updates worth mentioning. At the end of the post I also include some general thoughts on R package development with Stan and the growing number of The post The current...
R 3.5.0 (codename “Joy in Playing”) was released yesterday. You can get the latest binaries version from here. (or the .tar.gz source code from here). This is a major release with many new...
EARL Houston has just got even better! Not only do we have Hadley Wickham delivering a keynote address, we also have one of R’s originators, Dr. Robert Gentleman. Robert Gentleman...
I was surprised by greta. I had assumed that the tensorflow and reticulate packages would eventually enable R developers to look beyond deep learning applications and exploit the TensorFlow...
Semantic dashboard is on! Are you fed up with ordinary shinydashboard look? Give your app a new life with Semantic UI support. It cannot be any easier! Install semantic.dashboard and load...
In late June, I will be in New York to teach my 3-day workshop on Forecasting using R. Tickets are available at Eventbrite. This is the first time I’ve taught...
Ireland is a typically stable region from a seismic activity perspective as it is distant from major plate boundaries where subduction and sea-floor spreading occur. However, in reading the...
- My paper about the penetration of predatory journals in Brazil, Is predatory publishing a real threat? Evidence from...
These are my sketchnotes for Sam Charrington’s podcast This Week in Machine Learning and AI about Reproducibility and the Philosophy of Data with Clare Gollnick: Sketchnotes from TWiMLAI talk #121:...
Since I migrated my blog from Github Pages to blogdown and Netlify, I wanted to start migrating (most of) my old posts too - and use that opportunity to...
Regular readers will know that I have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with GAMs and the mgcv package. I use these models all the time in my research but recently...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the R/Finance Conference! As in prior years, we expect more than 250 attendees from around the world. R users from industry, academia, and...
I spent some time this morning upgrading the JDBC driver (and changing up some supporting code to account for changes to it) for my metis package🔗 which connects R...
(Or, how to write a Shiny app.R file that only contains a single line of code) Mark Sellors, Head of Data Engineering This post is long overdue. The information contained herein...
As I continue to learn and grow in using R I have been trying to develop the habit of being more formal in documenting and maintaining the various functions...
library(tidyverse) library(monkeylearn) This is a story (mostly) about how I started contributing to the rOpenSci package monkeylearn. I can’t promise any life flipturning upside down, but there will be a small...
The Main Competition The Secondary Competition What next? The results of the eRum competition are in! Before we announce the winners we would like to thank everyone who entered. It has been...
We’ll be giving a two day workshop at the 43rd Annual Summer Institute of Applied Statistics at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah, June 19-20, 2018. Abstract is below,...
Hello, R-Users! Have you ever joined an hackathon? If so, you surely know how fun and stimulating these events are. If not… now’s your chance! Quantide is collaborating with Hack...
I recently saw a Reddit thread in r/PoliticalDiscussion asking the question “If the economy is still booming 2020, how should the Democratic address this?” This gets to an issue...
Laura Swales, Marketing and Events Assistant This year at Mango we're proudly sponsoring the Bath Cats & Dogs Home. To start our fundraising for them, we decided to run a sweepstake on...
I have a couple of public appearances coming up soon. The East Bay R Language Beginners Group: Preparing Datasets – The Ugly Truth & Some Solutions, Tuesday, May 1,...
To post your R job on the next post Just visit this link and post a new R job to the R community. You can post a job for free (and there are...
Introduction Much of my work is with undergraduates who are first learning to analyze fisheries data. A common “learning opportunity” occurs when students are asked to compute the mean catch...
I don’t know whether ‘rename taxa’ is a common task or not. It seems not a good idea to rename taxa in Newick tree text, since it may introduce...
Today I’m excited to invite you to attend the Latin American R/BioConductor Developers Workshop 2018! It’ll be held in Cuernavaca, Mexico from July 30th to August 3rd, 2018. You...
Two years ago, Wes McKinney and Hadley Wickham got together to discuss some of the systems challenges facing the Python and R communities. Data science teams inevitably work with...
IntroYesterday I gave a workshop on applied predictive modelling with caret at the 1st LSE Computational Social Science hackathon. Organiser privileges. I put together some introductory code and started...
In this post, I talk about performance through an efficient algorithm I developed for finding closest points on a map. This algorithm uses both concepts from mathematics and algorithmics....
