The jsonlite stream_in and stream_out functions implement line-by-line processing of JSON data over a connection, such as a socket, url, file or pipe. Thereby we can construct a data processing pipeline that can handle large (or unlimited) amounts of data with limited memory. This post will walk through ...

By Andy Nicholls – Head of Consulting, UK Introduction Testing is a crucial component in ensuring that the correct analyses are deployed. However it is often considered unglamorous; a poor relation in terms of the time and resources allocated to it in … Continue reading →

May I present my new package: tagcloud. Tag clouds is for creating, um, tag clouds (aka word clouds). It is based on the code from the wordcloud package, but (i) has no tools for analysing word frequencies, instead (ii) focuses on doing better tag clouds. As to (ii), it adapts ...

I used Shiny to make an interactive cobb-douglass production surface in R. It reacts to user’s share of labor and capital inputs and allows the user to rotate the surface. The contour plot (isoquants) is also dynamic. Shiny works using two R codes stored in the same folder. One ...

The 28th annual International Mammalian Genome Conference was held over the last week in Bar Harbor, MA. For the first time, the official conference hashtag #IMGC14 was introduced. Twitter shares plummeted 9% next day. Pure coincide? I do not think so!Totally, 79 participants contributed 1546 tweets. Guess who was the Twitter evangelist? ...

Gravity, release me, and don’t ever hold me down, now my feet won’t touch the ground (Coldplay, Life In Technicolor II) Inspired by this nice post and by this cover of a Coldplay’s album: I have dared to do this using ggplot, polar coordinates and Google Fonts: ...