January 2016

Using Excel versus using R

January 15, 2016 | John Mount

Here is a video I made showing how R should not be considered “scarier” than Excel to analysts. One of the takeaway points: it is easier to email R procedures than Excel procedures. Win-Vector’s John Mount shows a simple analysis both in Excel and in R. [Read more...]

Kaggle: Walmart Trip Type Classification

January 15, 2016 | Andrew Collier

Walmart Trip Type Classification was my first real foray into the world of Kaggle and I'm hooked. I previously dabbled in What's Cooking but that was as part of a team and the team didn't work out particularly well. As a learning experience the competition was second to none. My ... [Read more...]

In case you missed it: December 2015 roundup

January 15, 2016 | David Smith

In case you missed them, here are some articles from December of particular interest to R users. A look back at accomplishments of the R Project and community in 2015. Segmented regression with the "segmented" package, applied to long-distance running records. Creating multi-tab reports in R with knitr and jQuery UI. ... [Read more...]

Twitter Authentication with R

January 15, 2016 | Julian Hillebrand

This article is just a small summary about the authentication process with Twitter. Its about creating the Twitter app and doing the handshake cause you have to do it every time you want to get data from Twitter with R. Since Twitter released the Version 1.1 of their API a OAuth ... [Read more...]

ggtree supports phylip tree format

January 14, 2016 | R on Guangchuang Yu

Phylip is also a widely used tree format, which contains taxa sequences with Newick tree text. In ggtree, we can use read.phylip() function to parse the file and use ggtree() to visualize the tree.
library(ggtree)
phyfile <- system.file("extdata", "sample.phy", package="ggtree")
phylip <- read.phylip(phyfile)
phylip

## 'phylip' S4 object that stored information of
##   '/Users/guangchuangyu/Library/R/3.2/library/ggtree/extdata/sample.phy'.
## 
## ...@ tree: 
## Phylogenetic tree with 15 tips and 13 internal nodes.
## 
## Tip labels:
##  K, N, D, L, J, G, ...
## 
## Unrooted; no branch lengths.
## 
## with sequence alignment available (15 sequences of length 2148)

ggtree(phylip) + geom_tiplab()
User can view the sequence alignment with the tree via msaplot() function.
msaplot(phylip, offset=1)
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New Tutorial Launched: Introduction to Machine Learning

January 14, 2016 | DataCamp Blog

In DataCamp’s brand new course, Introduction to Machine Learning with R, you’ll learn all about the most widely used machine learning techniques such as classification, regression and clustering.  Whether you want to build your personal recommendation engine, become better at picking stocks, or develop your own self-driving car, ... [Read more...]

R Markdown Tutorial by RStudio and DataCamp

January 14, 2016 | DataCamp Blog

In collaboration with Garrett Grolemund, RStudio's teaching specialist, DataCamp has developed a new interactive course to facilitate reproducible reporting of your R analyses. R Markdown enables you to generate reports straight from your R code, documenting your works as an HTML, pdf or Microsoft document. This course is part of ... [Read more...]

Quandl Tutorial: learn to use quandl in R

January 14, 2016 | DataCamp Blog

Quandl is a "wikipedia" for numerical data that allows you to rapidly search  through 8 million ready-to-use data sets. At DataCamp, we created a free Quandl Tutorial on how to use the corresponding R package to access Quandl data from within R.   As every real world data analyst knows, finding and ... [Read more...]

R in the cloud: R-fiddle of the Week

January 14, 2016 | DataCamp Blog

Now that our 'Learning R' -series is coming to an end (for those who have missed it, have a look at our Twitter or Facebook ), it is time to announce the start of a new series : R-fiddle of the Week. Every week, we will share an R-fiddle link that contains ... [Read more...]
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