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There are a lot of reasons to use R instead of my field’s standby software, SPSS. With that said, I won’t get into them here. Instead, I just want to talk about a few things in R that might help a beginner get the hang of it. If ... [Read more...]

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If you’re a regular R user, then you’ve probably used or have seen the function duplicated(). If you’ve only grown up in the world of dplyr and other tidyverse packages with its cool function distinct(), then I highly envy you. In any case, you might find yourself ... [Read more...]

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I have previously written on using containerized PostgreSQL with R. This show the steps for using containerized MySQL with R. As a consulting data scientist I often have to debug and rehearse work away from the clients actual infrastructure. Because of this it is useful to be able to spin ... [Read more...]

The BH package on CRAN was updated to version 1.62.0. BH provides a large part of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, possibly with Rcpp as well as other packages. This release upgrades the version of Boost to the upstr... [Read more...]

Saturday 19 November 2016 - 13:37 ShinyProxy is a novel, open source platform to deploy Shiny apps for the enterprise or larger organizations. Since the last release (see this blog post), we received two interesting use cases for which we did n... [Read more...]

Since the last release (see this blog post), we received two interesting use cases for which we did not imagine ShinyProxy would be used. First of all, we received a request to support other authentication methods than LDAP authentication. Whereas ShinyProxy is currently used primarily by larger organizations and companies ... [Read more...]

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Getting More Granular Where we’re going In having noticed the crime rates heading up over the last few years, taking a better look seemed more important. I want to first look at “CRIME” before looking into “TRAFFIC” in the data set. It sounds more interesting and I hope the ... [Read more...]

by Jonathan Regenstein In this previous post, we used an R Notebook to grab the monthly return data on three stocks, build a portfolio, visualize portfolio performance, and calculate the Sharpe Ratio. The Notebook format emphasized reproducibility and reuse by other R coders. Today, we’ll convert that Notebook into ... [Read more...]

The good folks at DataCamp track activity related to R packages on the RDocumentation.org Trends page. As of this writing, it tracks statistics on 11,768 packages (distributed across CRAN, BioConductor and Github) comprising over 1.7 million R functions in total. On that page, you can find current rankings on the most ... [Read more...]

Theoretical stuff Last time we talked about pure additive models, today I want to discuss multiplicative ones. There is a general scepticism about pure multiplicative exponential smoothing models in the forecasters society, because it is not clear why level, trend, seasonality and error term should be multiplied. Well, when it ... [Read more...]

Yesterday the eighth update in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp made it to the CRAN network for GNU R where the Windows binary has by now been generated too; the Debian package is on its way as well. This 0.12.8 release follows the 0.12.0 release from late ... [Read more...]