A live class for beginners: learn the basics of R, and get an overview on methods for data import, data manipulation, data visualization and data analysis. The post "R for Beginners" Course | May 3-4 Milan appeared first on MilanoR. [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Answering email queries from friends and acquaintances from around the world wanting to attend useR! 2016 has been painful. It is amazing that the conference sold out a full two months before its start, but upon reflection, not unbelievable. From its inception useR! has been an "academic" conference ... [Read more...]

[1] [2] Early April 2016, the release of a video recipe of pasta carbonara on Youtube triggered a tsunami of reactions. Following all the negative and sarcastic comments, the original video –sponsored by Barilla– was removed by the author (the French food blog demotivateur.fr) but is still available online. Hostile Read More ... [Read more...]

This is the last and final post in which yorkr ranks ODI batsmen and bowlers. These are based on match data from Cricsheet. The ranking is done on average runs and average strike rate for batsmen and average wickets and average economy rate for bowlers. This post has also been ... [Read more...]

[social4i size=”large” align=”float-right”] This is a re-post from the R packages mailing list Dear R users, the first 1.0 version of the rPref [Read more...]

Salvino A. Salvaggio [1] [2]Early April 2016, the release of a video recipe of pasta carbonara on Youtube triggered a tsunami of reactions. Following all the negative and sarcastic comments, the original video –sponsored by Barilla– was rem... [Read more...]

The European R users meeting (eRum) is an international conference that aims at integrating users of the R language. eRum 2016 will be held on October 13 and 14, 2016, in Poznan, Poland at the Poznan University of Economics and Business. We already confirm the following invited speakers: Rasmus Bååth, Romain Francois, Ulrike ... [Read more...]

A new release of RcppRedis arrived on CRAN today. And just like for the previous release, Russell Pierce contributed a lot of changes via several pull requests which make for more robust operations. In addition, we have started to add support for Mes... [Read more...]

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by Andrie de Vries A few weeks ago I wrote about the growth of CRAN packages, where I demonstrated how to scrape CRAN archives to get an estimate of the number of packages over time. In this post I briefly mentioned that the Ecdat package contains a dataset, CRANpackages, with ... [Read more...]

I just released a new package on CRAN. It’s called NPflow, it performs Dirichlet process mixture of multivariate normal, skew-normal or skew t-distributions  modeling, you should check it out. I was a little worried because the check from Travis CI was returning a NOTE. And even though the NOTEs ... [Read more...]

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This neat approach showed up recently as an answer to a FiveThirtyEight puzzle and of course I couldn't help but throw it at dplyr as soon as I could. Turns out that's not a terrible idea. The question posed is...Continue Reading → [Read more...]

Use of the Pearson correlation co-efficient is common in genomics and bioinformatics, which is OK as it goes (I have used it extensively myself), but it has some major drawbacks – the major one being that Pearson can produce large coefficients in the presence of very large measurements. This is best ... [Read more...]

Explicit semantic analysis (ESA) was proposed by Gabrilovich and Markovitch (2007) to compute a document position in a high-dimensional concept space. At the core, the technique compares the terms of the input document with the terms of documents describing the concepts estimating the relatedness of the document to each concept. In ... [Read more...]

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The ftable() function combines Cross-Tabulation with the ability to format , or “flatten”, contingency tables of 3 or more dimensions. The resulting tables contain the combined counts of the categorical variables, (also factor variables in R), that are then arranged as a matrix, whose rows and columns correspond to the original data’... [Read more...]

by Lixun Zhang, Data Scientist at Microsoft As a data scientist, I have experience with R. Naturally, when I was first exposed to Microsoft R Open (MRO, formerly Revolution R Open) and Microsoft R Server (MRS, formerly Revolution R Enterprise), I wanted to know the answers for 3 questions: What do ... [Read more...]

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EARL is a Conference for users and developers of the open source R programming language. The primary focus of the Conference is the commercial usage of R across a range of industry sectors with the aim of sharing knowledge and … Continue reading → [Read more...]