\[ \newcommand{\bm}[1]{\boldsymbol{\mathbf{#1}}} \DeclareMathOperator*{\argmin}{arg\,min} \DeclareMathOperator*{\argmax}{arg\,max} \] Abstract We discuss the computation of confidence intervals for the median or any other quantile in R. In particular we are interested in the interpolated order statistic approach suggested by Hettmansperger and Sheather (1986) and Nyblom (1992). In order to ... [Read more...]

A quick demo of RStudio’s R Notebooks shown by John Mount (of Win-Vector LLC, a statistics, data science, and algorithms consulting and training firm). (see http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/r_notebooks.html and https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/ ) [Read more...]

A few days ago, Conrad released Armadillo 7.500.0. The corresponding RcppArmadillo release 0.7.500.0.0 is now on CRAN (and will get into Debian shortly). Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra aiming towards a... [Read more...]

The data used in the tourism forecasting competition, discussed in Athanasopoulos et al (2011), have been made available in the Tcomp package for R. The objects are of the same format as for Mcomp package containing data from the M1 and M3 competitions... [Read more...]

The data used in the tourism forecasting competition, discussed in Athanasopoulos et al (2011), have been made available in the Tcomp package for R. The objects are of the same format as for Mcomp package containing data from the M1 and M3 competitions. Thanks to Peter Ellis for putting the package ... [Read more...]

Temperament has been a key issue in the 2016 presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and an issue highlighted in the series of three debates that concluded this week. Quantifying "temperament" isn't an easy task, but The Economist used the Microsoft Emotion API to chart the anger, contempt, sadness ... [Read more...]

Nina Zumel recently announced upcoming speaking appearances. I want to promote the upcoming sessions at ODSC West 2016 (11:15am-1:00pm on Friday November 4th, or 3:00pm-4:30pm on Saturday November 5th) and invite executives, managers, and other data science consumers to attend. We assume most of the Win-Vector blog audience is ... [Read more...]

To stay on top of R in the news, we’re sharing some stories related to R published last week. Interactive Data Visualization Using the Shiny App!(Saurav Kaushik) This is one of the best tutorials on Shiny that I have seen, and anything that says interactive next to data ... [Read more...]

.fusion-fullwidth-1 { padding-left: px !important; padding-right: px !important; }by Joseph Rickert 141 new packages landed on CRAN in August. The following are my picks f... [Read more...]

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First Warsaw R-Ladies Workshops were held yesterday! Over 100 R-Ladies have registered for the event! In this post I present notes from this meeting and provide some pictures of the beauty part of R. You can also learn a bit about the gender gap in th... [Read more...]

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This is the first of a series of posts on the subject of linear regression, using R for computational demonstrations and examples. I hope you find it useful, but I am aware it may contains typos and conceptual errors (mostly when I try to think instead of just repeating what ... [Read more...]

A brand-new release of anytime is now on CRAN following the three earlier releases since mid-September. anytime aims to convert anything in integer, numeric, character, factor, ordered, ... format to POSIXct (or Date) objects -- and does so without requiring a format string. See the anytime page for a few examples. ... [Read more...]

This report describes changes in version 0.3 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. This version represents a major refactoring of the package code, including its user-facing API. These changes were made in order to facilitate the addition of new features to the package, which in this version include: a new way ... [Read more...]

This report describes changes in version 0.3 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. This version represents a major refactoring of the package code, including its user-facing API. These changes were made in order to facilitate the addition of new features … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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Once upon a time, there was the original R Graph Gallery, by Romain François. Sadly, it's been unavailable for several years. Now there's a new R Graph Gallery to fill the void, created by Yan Holtz. It contains more than 200 data visualizations categorized by type, along with the R ... [Read more...]