The EARL London 2018 agenda is now available. Explore the schedule of keynotes, presentations, and lightning talks that cover a huge range of topics, including the best uses of Shiny, R in healthcare, using R for good, and R in finance. The brilliant lineup of speakers-who represent a wide range of industries-is sure to provide inspiration for all R...
So far, we have learned how to count spatial variability in our model. Please look at these two previous exercises here and here if you haven’t tried it yet....
In health services research, experiments are often conducted at the provider or site level rather than the patient level. However, we might still be interested in the outcome at...
This is this second post of the “Create your Machine Learning library from scratch with R !” series. Today, we will see how you can implement K nearest neighbors...
We’re finally here. Datazar Paper is the most exciting tool we’ve created to date. Up until now, I’d like to believe we’ve only made par with the status quo...
In the exercises below, we will work with FFTree pacakge which lets us use fast and frugal decision tree to model the data Please install the package and load...
A brief message for anyone who uses my PubMed retractions report. It’s no longer available at RPubs; instead, you will find it here at Github. Github pages hosting is...
taxize was seven years old this last Saturday! What is taxize? taxize is designed around making working with taxonomic names easier - abstracting away the details of what each of 20...
Join Andrew Collier and Hanjo Odendaal for a workshop on using R for Web Scraping. Who should attend? This workshop is aimed at beginner and intermediate R users who want to...
I spent 3 amazing days at eRum conference in Budapest. The conference was a blast and organizers (BIG thanks to them again) did wonderful job compiling such a high-level...
Thank you for the many requests to provide some extra info on how best to get finalfit results out of RStudio, and particularly into Microsoft Word. Here is how....
On September 12-14 the 6th international conference on the use of R in official statistics (#uRos2018) will take place at the Dutch National Statistical Office in Den Haag, the...
First, let me say I would love to have an “easy button” for predictive analytics. Unfortunately, predictive analytics is hard work that requires deep subject matter expertise in both...
How Has Taylor Swift's Word Choice Changed Over Time?Sunday night was a big night for Taylor Swift - not only was she nominated for multiple Billboard Music Awards;...
We are pleased to announance upcoming Why R? 2018 conference that is going to happen in central-eastern Europe (Poland, Wroclaw) this July (2-5th). It is the last week...
Tiny things can separate life into “before” and “after”. Here is one. For almost a year I’ve been daily sending mental “thank you” to Ugo (@ugobas) who showed me...
Registration is now open for my 1.5-day workshop on deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow using R. It will take place on July 5th & 6th in Münster, Germany. You can...
The competition It’s competition time! We’re sponsoring Why R? 2018 Conference. The conference runs from the 2-5th of July in Wroclaw, Poland and us nice folks here at Jumping Rivers...
I had a great time in Budapest last week for the eRum 2018 conference. The organizers have already made all of the videos available online. Here's my presentation: Speeding...
Aimée Gott, Education Practice Lead I always find it difficult to pick highlights from a conference and the eRum 2018 team did a fantastic job of making it difficult for...
With fewer than three weeks left in the June 7 provincial elections in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province with 14.2 million persons, the expected outcome is far from certain.The...
NOTE: Annoyingly, the remote mathjax server often takes it's sweet time rendering LaTex equations (like, up to a minute or more!!!). I don't know if this is deliberate on...
What I love in conferences are the people, that come after your talk and say: It would be cool to add XYZ to your package/method/theorem. After the eRum (great...
Another bi-monthly update and the seventeenth release in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp landed on CRAN late on Friday following nine (!!) days in gestation in the incoming/...
Welcome to the Hotel CaliforniaAs promised in last week's post, this week: sentiment analysis, also with song lyrics.Sentiment analysis is a method of natural language processing that involves...
Another correlation function?! A table A Plot A print Options Fun with p-hacking Credits Another correlation function?! Yes, the correlation function from the psycho package. devtools::install_github("neuropsychology/psycho.R")...
Keynote lecture about R/exams at eRum 2018 (European R Users Meeting) in Budapest: Slides, video, e-learning, replication materials. ...
A maintenance update of RcppGSL just brought version 0.3.5 to CRAN, a mere twelve days after the RcppGSL 0.3.4. release. Just like yesterday's upload of inline 0.3.15 it...
The openrouteservice provides a new method to get geodata into R. It has an API (or a set of them) and an R package has been written to communicate...
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