July 2016

The history of R’s predecessor, S, from co-creator Rick Becker

July 6, 2016 | David Smith

Before there was R, there was S. R was modeled on a language developed at AT&T Bell Labs starting in 1976 by Rick Becker and John Chambers (and, later, Alan Wilks) along with Doug Dunn, Jean McRae, and Judy Schilling. At last week's useR! conference, Rick Becker gave a fascinating ... [Read more...]

Build your own offshore company

July 6, 2016 | Christoph Safferling

Hackathons are not alike Recently, a number of this blog’s authors were at a data hackathon, the strangest one we’ve been to so far. It was more of a startup pitch gathering, complete with pitch training and whatnot. I was repeatedly asked by... [Read more...]

Build your own offshore company

July 6, 2016 | Christoph Safferling

Geographic data to service the needs of a remote employee – part2

July 6, 2016 | Ben Wilson

Ava Yang, Mango Solutions Recap In part 1 of this post I set out to find a flat to rent based on three simple criteria: Café density Tube station density Monthly rent So far I have made use of the … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Graphical Data Exploration

July 6, 2016 | Anu Rajaram

Data exploration of US high-skilled visa-salary dataset using graphs and advanced visualization with R. Interactive maps and Top 10 highest paying employers by State.

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Resume & Interview Tips For R Programmers

July 6, 2016 | John

Speaking as a hiring manager, it doesn’t take much to stand out as a candidate for a statistical programming job. We just finished hiring the [...] The post Resume & Interview Tips For R Programmers appeared first on ProgrammingR.

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useR! talk on teaching R

July 5, 2016 | Michael Levy - Rstats

Here is a video recording of my talk from useR! 2016 on teaching R. It’s nominally about teaching a lot of students in an intensive format, but I think almost everything translates to traditional classes. If for whatever reason this video isn’t working out for you, here is the ... [Read more...]

7 new R jobs from around the world (2016-07-05)

July 5, 2016 | Tal Galili

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Major League Baseball Birth Months

July 5, 2016 | Andrew Collier

The cutoff date for almost all nonschool baseball leagues in the United States is July 31, with the result that more major league players are born in August than in any other month.Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers A quick analysis to confirm Gladwell’s assertion above. Used data scraped from www.baseball-reference.... [Read more...]

Creating inset maps using spatial objects

July 5, 2016 | jannesm

This post explains how to create an inset map with spatial objects using the sp- and raster-package.

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Using Microsoft R Server and dplyrxdf to Predict Flight Arrival Delays

July 5, 2016 | Joseph Rickert

by Konstantin Golyaev, Data Scientist at Microsoft I recently participated in an internal one-day Microsoft R Server (MRS) hackathon. For an experienced base R user but a complete MRS novice, this turned out to be an interesting challenge. R has fantastic and unparalleled set of tools for exploratory data analysis, ... [Read more...]

eRum 2016: First European conference for the programming language R

July 5, 2016 | eoda GmbH

The European R community has new place to go for networking and exchanging experiences. For the first time, the Poznan University of Economics and Business hosts the European R users meeting (eRum) in Poland from 12 to 14 October. 250 participants from business and science are expected at the event in Poznan. Meeting ...

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Visualizing Stirling’s Approximation With Highcharts

July 5, 2016 | aschinchon

I said, “Wait a minute, Chester, you know I’m a peaceful man”, He said, “That’s okay, boy, won’t you feed him when you can” (The Weight, The Band) It is quite easy to calculate the probability of obtaining the same number of heads and tails when tossing ...

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Bio7 2.4 for Linux Released

July 5, 2016 | » R

04.07.2016 A new Bio7 Linux release is available at http://bio7.org. The general release note for Bio7 2.4 can be found here! Installation: Bio7 for Linux comes bundled with the latest Java Runtime Environment. To use R with Bio7 you have to install R for Linux. In addition you have to ... [Read more...]

A Simple Prediction Web Service Using the New fiery Package

July 5, 2016 | hrbrmstr

fiery is a new Rook/httuv-based R web server in town created by @thomasp85 that aims to fill the gap between raw http & websockets and Shiny with a flexible framework for handling requests and serving up responses. The intent of this post is to provide a quick-start to using it ... [Read more...]

How to bug author

July 5, 2016 | R on Guangchuang Yu

As an author of several Bioconductor packages. I found many questions from users are quite annoying. Some of them never use google and they are reluctant to read vignettes. Step 1: make sure you are using the latest release I found many peoples are using out-of-date packages. When they got an ... [Read more...]

Notes from 3rd and 3.5th Bayesian Mixer Meetup

July 5, 2016 | R on mages' blog

Two Bayesian Mixer meet-ups in a row. Can it get any better? Our third ‘regular’ meeting took place at Cass Business School on 24 June. Big thanks to Pietro and Andreas, who supported us from Cass. The next day, Jon Sedar of Applied AI, managed to arrange a special summer PyMC3 ... [Read more...]

Notes from 3rd and 3.5th Bayesian Mixer Meetup

July 5, 2016 | Markus Gesmann

Two Bayesian Mixer meet-ups in a row. Can it get any better?Our third 'regular' meeting took place at Cass Business School on 24 June. Big thanks to Pietro and Andreas, who supported us from Cass. The next day, Jon Sedar of Applied AI, managed to arrange a special summer PyMC3 ...

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Introduction to the RMS Package

July 4, 2016 | atmathew

The rms package offers a variety of tools to build and evaluate regression models in R. Originally named ‘Design’, the package accompanies the book “Regression Modeling Strategies” by Frank Harrell, which is essential reading for anyone who works in the ‘data science’ space. Over the past year or so, I ... [Read more...]

Converting Gene Names in R with AnnotationDbi

July 4, 2016 | radiaj

There are many ways to convert gene accession numbers or ids to gene symbols or other types of ids in R and several R/Bioconductor packages to facilitate this process including the AnnotationDbi, annotate, and biomaRt packages. In this post, we are going to learn how to convert gene ids ... [Read more...]

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July 2016

The history of R’s predecessor, S, from co-creator Rick Becker

Build your own offshore company

Build your own offshore company

Geographic data to service the needs of a remote employee – part2

Graphical Data Exploration

Resume & Interview Tips For R Programmers

useR! talk on teaching R

7 new R jobs from around the world (2016-07-05)

Major League Baseball Birth Months

Creating inset maps using spatial objects

Using Microsoft R Server and dplyrxdf to Predict Flight Arrival Delays

eRum 2016: First European conference for the programming language R

Visualizing Stirling’s Approximation With Highcharts

Bio7 2.4 for Linux Released

A Simple Prediction Web Service Using the New fiery Package

How to bug author

Notes from 3rd and 3.5th Bayesian Mixer Meetup

Notes from 3rd and 3.5th Bayesian Mixer Meetup

Introduction to the RMS Package

Converting Gene Names in R with AnnotationDbi

July 2016

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