Last week I had my class practice making a box plot using the data on page 66 in The Practice of Statistics 4th Edition (TPS 4ed) text book. I’m still going over the details of making a box plot with just a single vector or variable of data. Many of ... [Read more...]

MODIStsp v1.3.0 has been finally released !It adds the much-needed functionality for downloading and preprocessing MODIS Collection 006 datasets. Off-line preprocessing of already downloaded hdf images was also improved, and the GUI was a bit revamped to improve user-friendliness (A detailed changelog can be found here).  More detailed usage instructions were ... [Read more...]

We have collected all notes and materials of the 7th MilanoR Meeting and now they're available online. The post 7th MilanoR Meeting: download presentations appeared first on MilanoR. [Read more...]

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This post explores some of the possible workarounds that can be employed if you want to include non-pipe-aware functions to magrittr pipelines without using intubate and, at the end, the intubate alternative. See intubate R stat functions in... [Read more...]

This is the fourth installment in our series about web scraping with R. This includes practical examples for the leading R web scraping packages, including: RCurl package [...] The post Webscraping with rvest: So Easy Even An MBA Can Do It! appeared first on ProgrammingR. [Read more...]

America is a nation on wheels. According to 2014 stats, there are 797 cars owned per 1000 people in America.ref Besides paying the price for the vehicle, […] The post MPGView: Find the Vehicle Best for Fuel Economy appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog. [Read more...]

MODIStsp v1.3.0 has been finally released ! It adds the much-needed functionality for downloading and preprocessing MODIS Collection 006 datasets. Off-line preprocessing of already downloaded hdf images was also improved, and the GUI was a bit revamped to improve user-friendliness (A detailed changelog can be found here). More detailed usage instructions were ... [Read more...]

I’ve been trying to find a R equivalent to Python’s subprocess and so far I’ve failed. Since a capability to handle child processes in a way that’s more sophisticated than a simple system() call (R has two of them, system() and system2()) might turn out handy ... [Read more...]

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A few months ago I wrote about my first solo author submission to the R Journal entitled, “A Simple Guide to S3 Methods”. Unfortunately the article didn’t make it to publication on the R Journal, but admittedly that might have been a bit of a lon... [Read more...]

In the last few years there have been more attempts at a fresh approach to statistical timeseries forecasting using the increasingly accessible tools of machine learning. This means methods like neural networks and extreme gradient boosting, as supple... [Read more...]

On the 1st of september we launched R course finder, an online directory that helps you to find the right R course quickly. With so many R courses available online, we thought it was a good idea to offer a tool that helps people to compare these courses, before they ... [Read more...]

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Take scoping rules one step further - to applications in Shiny! You need to understand the three main scopes in a Shiny application to save yourself headaches as you expand from one to many users of your apps. [Read more...]

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This posts continues the discussion of correlation started on LR01: Correlation. We will try to answer the following questions: Should correlation be used for any pair of data? Does association mean causation? What are ecological correlations? What hap... [Read more...]

I have started writing a ‘book’ using the awesome bookdown package. In the book I explain and show why using functional programming and putting your functions in your own packages is the way to go when you want to clean, prepare and transform large data sets. It makes testing and ... [Read more...]

I have started writing a ‘book’ using the awesome bookdown package. In the book I explain and show why using functional programming and putting your functions in your own packages is the way to go when you want to clean, prepare and transform lar... [Read more...]

I’m pleased to announce the CRAN release of packagedocs which provides a mechanism for simple generation and automated deployment of nice-looking online R package documentation that plugs into the traditional R package vignette system. You can see... [Read more...]