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There are several tools available in R for creating animations (movies) from statistical graphics. The animation package by Yihui Xie will create an animated GIF or video file, using...
The elevent update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN yesterday following the initial upload on the weekend, and the Debian package and Windows...
We’re excited to announce a powerful new ability to organize content in RStudio Connect: version 1.5.0. Tags allow publishers to arrange what they’ve published and enable users to find...
This week, DataCamp is celebrating 1 million learners on its platform and is offering 50% off for unlimited access to the full curriculum. Join the learners who have completed...
In my last post Which linear model is best? I wrote about using stepwise selection as a method for selecting linear models, which turns out to have some issues...
NOTE: I’ll do my best to ensure the next post will have nothing to do with Twitter, and this post might not completely meet my R⁶ criteria. A single,...
This post discusses a number of options that are available in R for analyzing data from max-diff experiments, using the package flipMaxDiff. For a...
This is a quick note looking for any further feedback on the simglm package prior to CRAN submission later this week. The goal is to submit Thursday or Friday...
The first ever EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language) conference in San Francisco will take place on June 5-7 (and it's not too late to register). The EARL...
This post will be about replicating the Marcos Lopez de Prado algorithm from his paper building diversified portfolios that outperform … Continue reading →
This is the second part of the series on Instrumental Variables. For other parts of the series follow the tag instrumental variables. In this exercise set we will build...
In April I attended the 2017 New York R conference, hosted by Lander Analytics and Work-Bench. It was both the third time the conference was held...
Introduction I spent good chunks of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday attempting to write another blog post on using R and the quantstrat package for backtesting, and all I have...
A debate about which language is better suited for Datascience, R or Python, can set off diehard fans of these languages into a tizzy. This post tries to look...
By Gabriel Vasconcelos Motivation The name bagging comes from boostrap aggregating. It is a machine learning technique proposed by Breiman (1996) to increase stability in potentially unstable estimators. For...
R is a very popular language for doing analytics, and particularly statistics, on your data. There are a number of R functions for reading in data, but most of...
Andar, lo que es andar, anduve encima siempre de las nubes (Del tiempo perdido, Robe) If you give importance to colours, maybe you know already COLOURlovers. As can be...
It is always the little things… Over the years, I have been totally happy with almost everything about Github, but I have also been waiting for one little thing: I...
For my recently published paper, I produced not-so-standard figures that show the two step decomposition used in the analysis. Have a look:
Bioinformatics is an amalgamation Biology and Computer science.Biological Data is manipulated using Computers and Computer software’s in Bioinformatics. Biological Data includes DNA; RNA & Protiens. DNA & RNA is...
Many of my posts seem to begin with a link to a tweet, and this one falls into that pattern: And @_inundata is already working on a #rstats palette....
There will be a few posts about switching from plyr/reshape2 for data wrangling to the more contemporary dplyr/tidyr. My most common use of plyr looked something like this: we...
Shiny Application Layouts – Update Input In the ninth part of our series we will see the updated input scenario. This is different from the Dynamic UI example we...
Win-Vector LLC has recently been teaching how to use R with big data through Spark and sparklyr. We have also been helping clients become productive on R/Spark infrastructure through...
Continuing my examination of the individual level voting behaviour from the New Zealand Election Study, I wanted to look at the way individuals swap between parties, and between “did...
This week’s R bulletin will cover topics on how to list files, extracting file names, and creating a folder using R. Hope you like this R weekly bulletin. Enjoy...
I’ll admit I didn’t really know who Bill Nye was before yesterday. His name sounds a bit like Bill Nighy’s, that’s all I knew. But well science is all...
This is to announce that Münster now has its very own R users group! If you are from the area, come join us (or if you happen to know someone...
