There comes a time in a software toolchain’s lifecycle where the focus shifts from developer... [Read more...]

The militarization of local police departments here in the US has been much in the news lately, and the New York Times published in June an in-depth article on how materiel from wars has ended up in the hands of US counties. Besides the traditional reporting it's a fantastic piece ... [Read more...]

26.09.2014 For the next release of Bio7 I implemented a first simple debugging GUI (Graphical User Interface) for R scripts. For the debugging process a change from Rserve to an available Java R console connection in Bio7 is necessary (with Rserve alone a debugging interface wouldn’t be possible). Both connections ... [Read more...]

List of R programmers: Hello R people. In December of 2013 I posted a cheap-o wiki-editable (thank you github) contact list which recruiters can use to find you, if they’re looking for R programmers. In what I consider a resounding success, within a few weeks it got onto the first ... [Read more...]

When I used one of the Scotland TopoJSON files for a recent post, it really hit me just how much D3 cartography envy I had/have as an R user. Don’t get me wrong, I can conjure up D3 maps pretty well [1] [2] and the utility of an interactive map ... [Read more...]

I was emailed by a friend that was looking into their google location data and had asked if I had ever used a json file before in R. I said I had not, but I knew there were packages to do such things. The things I sent were things he ... [Read more...]

Earlier this evening I gave a short talk about R and Docker at the September Meetup of the Docker Chicago group. Thanks to Karl Grzeszczak for setting the meeting, and for providing a pretty thorough intro talk regarding CoreOS and Docker. My slides... [Read more...]

UPDATE Per the author, a devtools::install_github("hadley/devtools") should take care of everything you need prior to installing the latest dplyr (though I did not have postgres libs installed and suspect that might still be needed). The R dplyr package just turned 0.3 and to get it working in ... [Read more...]

I was wondering how to draw a venn diagram like pie chart in R, to show the distribution of my RNA-seq reads mapped onto different annotation regions (e.g. intergenic, intron, exons etc.). A google search returns several options, including the nice one from Xiaopeng's bam2x (see below). However, ... [Read more...]

I was wondering how to draw a venn diagram like pie chart in R, to show the distribution of my RNA-seq reads mapped onto different annotation regions (e.g. intergenic, intron, exons etc.). A google search returns several options, including the nice one... [Read more...]

This is the bimonthly R Jobs post (for 2014-09-25), based on the R-bloggers’ sister website: R-users.com. If you are an employer who is looking to hire people from [Read more...]

Three major polling houses published their polls this week: MDA, Ibope, and Vox Populi. The following numbers incorporate these data. With current data, a runoff between Dilma and Marina seems to be inevitable (.87), though its certainty has decreased from the previous week as the following chart indicates. How to understand ... [Read more...]

Regular expressions are an amazing tool for working with character data, but they are also painful to read and write.  Even after years of working with them, I struggle to remember the syntax for negative lookahead, or which way round the start and end anchor symbols go. Consequently, I’ve ... [Read more...]

As we’ve mentioned on previous occasions, one of the defining characteristics of data science is the emphasis on the availability of “large” data sets, which we define as “enough data that statistical efficiency is not a concern” (note that a “large” data set need not be “big data,” however ... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert One of the most difficult things about R, a problem that is particularly vexing to beginners, is finding things. This is an unintended consequence of R's spectacular, but mostly uncoordinated, organic growth. The R core team does a superb job of maintaining the stability and growth of ... [Read more...]

The last CRAN release didn’t have much new functionality, but Ross Bennett and I have completely re-written the Return.portfolio function to fix some issues and make the calculations more transparent.  The function calculates the returns of a portfolio given asset returns, weights, and rebalancing periods – which, although not ... [Read more...]

In honor of the Ryder Cup, here's a fun puzzle for the mathematically inclined golfer to consider: how many different paths are possible in an 18 hole round of match play golf? If you'd rather not wade through the math then you can skip ahead to the "practical exploration" section of ... [Read more...]

By Chris Campbell – Senior Consultant, UK. What struck me first was how few sandals I could see, none of which were paired with socks. The energy in the room was [Read more...]

Last week, we released the RMOA package at CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RMOA). It is an R package to allow building streaming classification and regression models on top of MOA. MOA is the acronym of 'Massive Online Analysis' and it is the most popular open source framework ... [Read more...]

What are joint models for longitudinal and survival data? In this post we will introduce in layman's terms the framework of joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data. These models are applied in settings where the sample units are followed-up in time, for example, we may be interest in patients ... [Read more...]