May 2014

Allez les Bleus !

May 20, 2014 | arthur charpentier

In almost three weeks, the (FIFA) World Cup will start, in Brazil. I have to admit that I am not a big fan of soccer, so I will not talk to much about it. Actually, I wanted to talk about colors, and variations on some colors. For instance, there are ... [Read more...]

ICU Unicode text transforms in the R package stringi

May 20, 2014 | Marek Gągolewski

The ICU (International Components for Unicode) library provides very powerful and flexible ways to apply various Unicode text transforms. These include: Full (language-specific) case mappings, Unicode normalization, Text transliteration (e.g. script-to-script conversion). All of these are available to R programmers/users…Read more › [Read more...]

Oh, I did not know that [about R]

May 20, 2014 | Derek Jones

I recently saw a post about something called ValidR and as somebody with a long standing professional interest in language validation immediately read the article and referenced links. I was disappointed to find that what was being validated was the installation, not the behavior of the implementation. In the context ... [Read more...]

Next Kölner R User Meeting: Friday, 23 May 2014

May 20, 2014 | Markus Gesmann

The next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 23 May 2014. To celebrate our 10th meeting we welcome: Andrie de Vries (Revolution Analytics and Co-author of R for Dummies): Taking R to the Enterprise Markus Gesmann: googleVis overview and recent developments Followed by drinks and schnitzel at the ... [Read more...]

May 30: 5th MilanoR meeting

May 19, 2014 | MilanoR

(Leggi la pagina in italiano) Dear R users and enthusiasts, MilanoR staff is happy to announce the next MilanoR meeting. The next MilanoR meeting will be on Friday 30 May, at 6 pm. The meeting will take place at: Fiori … Continue reading → [Read more...]

R jobs (May 19th 2014)

May 19, 2014 | Tal Galili

This is the bimonthly R Jobs post (for 2014-05-19), based on the R-bloggers’ sister website: R-users.com. If you are an employer who is looking to hire people from the [Read more...]

R is short for SSIS

May 18, 2014 | The Clerk

R is Short for SSIS Data scientists often identify a need to join data from different, unlinked servers. One standard tool for accomplishing this is an SSIS package to consolidate the data onto one of the servers. For the analyst who wants to keep everything in one file for simplicity ... [Read more...]

T-Shirts … designed with R!

May 18, 2014 | Mark T Patterson

On Friday, I saw David Smith's post on a competition to design this year's useR! conference t-shirt. The goal is to create a design generated using an R script, which will be featured on the back of the shirt. Having a bit of time this weekend, I decided to try ... [Read more...]
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