In my view, one of the greatest developments during the last decade in economics is that the Journals of the American Economic Association and some other leading journals require authors to upload the replication code and data sets of accepted articles. I wrote a Shiny app that allows to search currently among more than 3000 articles that have an accessible...
This blogpost explains step by step how you can build your own Docker Image and include R scripts. With this you can have scripts running at every image's beginning. Der...
We are announcing the development of a new statistical user interface for R. I'm really excited about it and I hope that your will be too. Vivid is a...
A minimal maintenance release of Rblpapi, now at version 0.3.9, arrived on CRAN earlier today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the...
The ssh package provides a native ssh client for R. You can connect to a remote server over SSH to transfer files via SCP, setup a secure tunnel, or...
by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure The AzureR packages have now been on CRAN for a couple of months, so I thought I'd provide an update on...
Now that the US Government shutdown is over, it is time to download NOAA weather daily summaries in bulk and store them somewhere safe so that at the next...
A number of existing R packages support data encryption. However, we haven’t found one that easily suits our needs: to encrypt one or many columns of a data frame...
In my view, one of the greatest developments during the last decade in economics is that the Journals of the American Economic Association and some other leading journals require...
This tutorial is going to cover how to set up a temperature/humidity sensor with a raspberry pi. You will learn how to setup the sensor, a MYSQL server, and connect to...
We currently have two postdoc opportunities together with an industry partner in the field of wind and solar power forecasting (full time, Level B). They are suitable for recently...
To make getting started with rquery (an advanced query generator for R) easier we have re-worked the package README for various data-sources (including SparkR!). Here are our current examples:...
We are very excited to announce that the eRum2020 (European R Users Meeting) will be held in Milan in 2020! The post Announcement: eRum 2020 held in Milano! appeared first...
Not always is the answer 42 as explained in Hitchhiker’s guide. Sometimes it is also 6174. Kaprekar number is one of those gems, that makes Mathematics fun. Indian recreational...
Those outside the Colonies may not know that Payless—a national chain that made footwear affordable for millions of ‘Muricans who can’t spare $100.00 USD for a pair of shoes...
Greg Wilson is a data scientist and professional educator at RStudio. As a newcomer to R who prefers to read paper rather than pixels, I’ve been working my way through...
We are pleased to introduce the descriptr package, a set of tools for generating descriptive/summary statistics. Installation # Install release version from CRAN install.packages("descriptr") # Install development version from GitHub # install.packages("devtools") devtools::install_github("rsquaredacademy/descriptr") Shiny App descriptr includes a...
As I posted recently, I’m involved in a couple of events, later this summer: our annual Summer School and the new(er) tradition of the R for HTA workshop. I have...
Here are two nice exercises for a future simulation exam, seen and solved on X validated.The first one is about simulating a Gibbs sampler associated with the joint target...
Recently Hadley Wickham prescribed pronouncing the magrittr pipe as “then” and using right-assignment as follows: I am not sure if it is a good or bad idea. But let’s...
There was a flurry of activity in the last couple of days on Twitter and the blogosphere, most notably Thomas Lumley’s excellent Stats Chat, relating to whether there is...
Can you track your health status and your BMI simply by entering some personal data? Let's see how we did it with a brand new Shiny app. The post Monitoring...
The R package gganimate enables to animate plots. It is particularly interesting to visualize the intermediate results of an algorithm, to see how it converges towards the final results. The following...
Sorting values is one of the bread and butter tasks in computer science: this post uses it as a use case to learn what recursion is all about. It...
WiGLE has been around a while and is a great site to explore the pervasiveness or sparsity of Wi-Fi (and cellular) networks around the globe. While interactive use is...
Hugo Bowne-Anderson, the host of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, recently interviewed Marco Blume, Trading Director at Pinnacle Sports. Here is the podcast link. Introducing Marco Blume Hugo: ...
Installing R from scratch and creating your favorite IDE setup is especially useful when making fresh installation or when you are developing and testing out different versions. This blogpost...
I must preface this post with the posit that if you’re doing anything interactive() with Amazon Athena you should seriously consider just using their free ODBC drivers as it’s...
Google searches and the amount of searches for terms can show how interested the public is in that subject. After all, the act of Googling something is result of...
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