scheduleR is an attempt to create an intuitive interface for scheduling R and Rmarkdown scripts. Especially for the latter, I find the lack of a good scheduling, logging and notification tool the reason for why I don’t use Rmarkdown as much as I could for generating business report / dashboards. ... [Read more...]

Last week, while I was giving my crash course on R for insurance, we’ve been discussing possible extensions of Lee & Carter (1992) model. If we look at the seminal paper, the model is defined as follows Hence, it means that This would be a (non)linear model on the logarithm ... [Read more...]

Call for Papers:R/Finance 2015: Applied Finance with RMay 29 and 30, 2015University of Illinois at ChicagoThe seventh annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R will be held on May 29 and 30, 2015 in Chicago, IL, USA at the University... [Read more...]

Last week the LA R meetup featured another round of 5 speakers each highlighting a... [Read more...]

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by Jeremy Reynolds Senior R Trainer, Revolution Analytics Last week, Revolution Analytics released its first massive open, online course through a partnership with datacamp.com: Introduction to Revolution R Enterprise for Big Data Analytics. You can sign up for the free course here. This course provides a look at some ... [Read more...]

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I'm back on the road for 3 dplyr talks. On thursday I'll be in Lyon for the RLyon meetup. Next week, I'll be back to Budapest as part of the BI Forum In december, I'll be in Milano for the MilanoR meeetup. See you there. 3 more dates on my #dplyr autumn ... [Read more...]

Hours after the initial blog post announcing the first release of the new package RcppAnnoy, Qiang Kou sent us a very nice pull request adding mmap support in Windows. So a new release with Windows support is on now CRAN, and Windows binaries should ... [Read more...]

MilanoR staff is happy to announce the next MilanoR mee [...] [Read more...]

Taking the first step is often the hardest: getting data from Excel into R. Suppose you would like to use the ChainLadder package to forecast future claims payments for a run-off triangle that you have stored in Excel. How do you get the triangle into R and execute a reserving ... [Read more...]

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I hope my letter could boost this guy up like: I'm not sure if I'm a good observer, but time and time again I feel some people are undervalued, or they were not given better opportunities to show their value. Not surprisingly, I know quite a few such people in ... [Read more...]

The video replay from last week's Introducing Revolution R Open webinar is now available, and I've embedded it below for anyone who may have missed the live presentation. In addition to providing an overview of Revolution R Open, the presentation also introduces other open source projects from Revolution Analytics. If ... [Read more...]

A recent post pointed us to a great talk that elegantly described how inferences from a trial could be analyzed with a purely resampling-based approach. The talk uses data from a paper that considered the association between beer consumption and mosqu... [Read more...]

I have added two new drafts of chapters for the Introductory Fisheries Science with R book.  Both chapters are still rough, but feedback would be greatly appreciated. The first chapter is an introduction to basic data manipulations, largely using the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

SIRAcon, the annual conference for the Society of Information Risk Analysts was held September 9th and 10th. I was fortunate enough to not only attend, but I also spoke (on how to stop worrying and love math) and moderated a fantastic panel with Ali-Samad-Khan, Jack Jones and Doug Hubbard. It ... [Read more...]

In a previous post we looked at how to use D3 TopoJSON files with R and make some very D3-esque maps. I mentioned that one thing missing was moving Alaska & Hawaii a bit closer to the continental United States and this post shows you how to do that. The ... [Read more...]

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