A new release of Rblpapi is now on CRAN. It provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg Labs (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required). This marks the fourth release since the package first appeared on ... [Read more...]

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Just a quick heads up that Nina Zumel, co-founder and principal consultant at Win-Vector LLC will be presenting a webinar at 10AM Pacific Time on Thursday March 17, Data Preparation Techniques with R. Nina is the co-author of Practical Data Science with R and blogs frequently at the Win-Vector blog (and ... [Read more...]

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Databricks recently announced GraphFrames, awesome Spark extension to implement graph processing using DataFrames. I performed graph analysis and visualized beautiful ball movement network of Golden State Warriors using rich data provided by NBA.com’s stats Pass network of Warriors Passes received & made The league’s MVP Stephen Curry received ... [Read more...]

Databricks recently announced GraphFrames, awesome Spark extension to implement graph processing using DataFrames. I performed graph analysis and visualized beautiful ball movement network of Golden State Warriors using rich data provided by NBA.com’s stats Pass network of Warriors ### Passes received & made The league’s MVP Stephen Curry received ... [Read more...]

In this post I will present a simple way how to export your regression results (or output) from R into Microsoft Word. Previously, I have written a tutorial how to create Table 1 with study characteristics and to export into Microsoft Word. These posts are especially useful for researchers who prepare ... [Read more...]

A new version of x13binary is now on CRAN. It updates the underlying X-13ARIMA-SEATS binary to build 1.1.26 which was released recently by the US Census Bureau. Our x13binary package takes the pain out of installing this, and provides it to the seaso... [Read more...]

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Yesterday a family member forwarded me a Wall Street Journal interview titled What Data Scientists Do All Day At Work. The title intrigued me immediately, partly because I find myself explaining that same topic somewhat regularly. I wasn’t disappointed in the interview: General Electric’s Dr. Narasimhan gave insightful ... [Read more...]

Microsoft officially launched SQL Server 2016 at the Data Driven event in New York City last week, and R featured prominently. One of the highlights from Joseph Sirosh's keynote was a demonstration of the World Wide Telescope, an online tool that allows budding astronomers (and professionals!) to explore the visible universe ... [Read more...]

Following on from the success of the previous London EARL (Effective Applications of the R Language) Conference plans are well underway for this years EARL on September 13-15th 2016. Call for Abstracts We are currently calling for abstracts for the conference; … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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by Richard Kittler, Microsoft R Server PM, Microsoft Advanced Analytics In January, Microsoft announced the re-branding of Revolution R Enterprise as Microsoft R Server, and the release of Microsoft R Server 2016 (aka 8.0). Highlights of what’s new in version 8.0 include an updated R engine (R 3.2.2), new fuzzy matching algorithms, the ... [Read more...]

Recently I’ve had to get to grips with SSH tunnels. SSH tunnels are really useful for maintaining remote network integrity and work in a secure fashion. It is, however, a pain to open PuTTY and log in all the time, mainly because I couldn’t script it in R! ... [Read more...]

emojifont is available in CRAN, you can use the following command to install it.

install.packages("emojifont")

An example of using emoji font in R plot is showed below: More example can be found in the post and online vignette. I found FontAwesome is quite interesting especially in technical world. In emojifont (... [Read more...]

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