August 2016

Extract tables from messy spreadsheets with jailbreakr

August 17, 2016 | David Smith

R has some good tools for importing data from spreadsheets, among them the readxl package for Excel and the googlesheets package for Google Sheets. But these only work well when the data in the spreadsheet are arranged as a rectangular table, and not overly encumbered with formatting or generated with ... [Read more...]

RClimate Script to Plot 90+ days in summer

August 17, 2016 | Kelly

The weatherData package, link , makes it very easy to retrieve detailed weather data from hundreds of stations across the US. I developed this script to retrieve and plot daily maximum and minimum temperatures and highlight days with 90+ max … Continue reading →
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Making fast, good decisions with the FFTrees R package

August 17, 2016 | ndphillips

“…[W]e are suspicious of rapid cognition. We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went into making it” Malcom Gladwell, Blink In his book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell summarises a common misconception about good decision making. ... [Read more...]

Calculate Wages and Benefits in R with blscrapeR

August 16, 2016 | Kris Eberwein

The most difficult thing about working with BLS data is gaining a clear understanding on what data are available and what they represent. Some of the more popular data sets can be found on the BLS Databases, Tables & Calculations website. The selected examples below do not include all series or ...
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ggtree paper published

August 16, 2016 | R on Guangchuang Yu

Today ggtree received 100 stars on and I found the paper was online at the same day by the tweet: ggtree, Methods in Ecology and Evolutionに掲載されたのか。オープンアクセスっぽいな。https://t.co/JlET18BSZv— ホクソピペット (@siero5335) August 16, 2016 I am quite exciting about it. Now ggtree is citable by doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12628. In the review period, ...
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The Win-Vector parallel computing in R series

August 16, 2016 | John Mount

With our recent publication of “Can you nest parallel operations in R?” we now have a nice series of “how to speed up statistical computations in R” that moves from application, to larger/cloud application, and then to details. For your convenience here they are in order: A gentle introduction ... [Read more...]

RQGIS 0.1.0 release

August 15, 2016 | jannesm

We proudly announce the release of RQGIS! RQGIS establishes an interface between R and QGIS, i.e. it allows the user to access the more than 1000 QGIS geoalgorithms from within R.
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15 Page Tutorial for R

August 15, 2016 | R – StudyTrails

For Beginners in R, here is a 15 page example based tutorial that covers the basics of R. Starting R – Trivial tutorial on how to start R for those just wondering what to do next after downloading R. Assignement Operator – Two important assignment operators in R are [Read more...]

Probably the most useful R function I’ve ever written

August 15, 2016 | Patrick Burns

The function in question is scriptSearch. I’m not much for superlatives — “most” and “best” imply one dimension, but we live in a multi-dimensional world. I’m making an exception. The statistic I have in mind for this use of “useful” is the waiting time between calls to the function ... [Read more...]

Probably the most useful R function I’ve ever written

August 15, 2016 | Patrick Burns

The function in question is scriptSearch. I’m not much for superlatives — “most” and “best” imply one dimension, but we live in a multi-dimensional world. I’m making an exception. The statistic I have in mind for this use of “useful” is the waiting time between calls to the function ... [Read more...]

The inexorable growth of student debt, charted with R

August 15, 2016 | David Smith

Len Kiefer, Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac, recently published the following chart to his personal blog showing household debt in the United States (excluding mortgage debt). As you can see, student loan debt has steadily increased over the last 13 years and has now eclipsed all other forms of non-mortgage ... [Read more...]

Can you nest parallel operations in R?

August 15, 2016 | John Mount

When we teach parallel programming in R we start with the basic use of parallel (please see here for example). This is, in our opinion, a necessary step before getting into clever notation and wrapping such as doParallel and foreach. Only then do the students have a sufficiently explicit interface ... [Read more...]
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