My cousin Eli is way cooler than me. Well, to be fair, I don’t exactly set a high bar! Eli is a skydiving enthusiast with over 200 jumps to his name. And I read books and write nonsense like this… Eli is meticulous about collecting metadata from e... [Read more...]

My cousin Eli is way cooler than me. Well, to be fair, I don’t exactly set a high bar! Eli is a skydiving enthusiast with over 200 jumps to his name. And I read books and write nonsense like this… Eli is meticulous about collecting metadata from e... [Read more...]

A strategy for gathering scattered spreadsheet data with R - A simple request Recently I was tasked with extracting data from multiple spreadsheets so that it could be included in a report. Seemed like a fairly innocuous request, but it tur... [Read more...]

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Over the last two years I’ve occasionally been giving a very basic tutorial to Bayesian statistics using R and Stan. At the end of the tutorial I hand out an exercise for those that want to flex their newly acquired skills. I call this exercise Bay... [Read more...]

The first ever RStudio conference was held January 11-14, 2017 in Orlando, FL. For anyone else like me who spends hours each working day staring into an RStudio session, the conference was truly excellent. The speaker lineup was diverse and covered lot... [Read more...]

Brief explanation This is the second part in a series on three articles about Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). This time I am glad to announce Jodie Burchell as a co-writer! In Structural Equation Modelling in R (Part 1) I explained the basics of CFA. SEM was explained as a general case ... [Read more...]

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I spoke on approaching text mining tasks using tidy data principles at rstudio::conf yesterday. I was so happy to have the opportunity to speak and the conference has been a great experience. If you want to catch up on what has been going on at rstudio::conf, Karl Broman ... [Read more...]

I spoke on approaching text mining tasks using tidy data principles at rstudio::conf yesterday. I was so happy to have the opportunity to speak and the conference has been a great experience. If you want to catch up on what has been going on at rstudio::conf, Karl Broman ... [Read more...]

We recently launched a new course, Exploratory Data Analysis in R: Case Study taught by David Robinson. Dave is a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow and his interests include statistics, data analysis, education, and programming in R. In his course, yo... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert Here are a few things of some interest in the R world: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has joined the R Consortium! This is a very positive development for the R Consortium and the R Community in general. The Moore Foundation has been a positive force ... [Read more...]

The Microsoft R Server Tiger Team assists customers around the world to implement large-scale analyytic solutions. Along the way, they discover useful tips and best practices, and share them on the Tiger Team blog. Here are a few recent tips from the Tiger Team on using Microsoft R Server: Gather ... [Read more...]

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Forwards, the R Foundation taskforce on women and other under-represented groups, is seeking to address issues affecting under-represented groups in general as it works to broaden the participation of women in the R community. In order to adequately address such issues, we would like to widen the diversity of the ... [Read more...]

Forwards, the R Foundation taskforce on women and other under-represented groups, is seeking to address issues affecting under-represented groups in general as it works to broaden the participation of women in the R community. In order to adequately address such issues, we would like to widen the diversity of the ... [Read more...]

If you’re serious about learning, you probably need to read a book at some point. These days if you want to learn applied statistics and data science tools, you have amazing options in the form of blogs, Q&A sites, and massive open online course... [Read more...]

R package dependencies Erich Neuwirth January 13, 2017 CRAN at the moment (2017-01-13 01:09:18) has 9884 R packages. Quite a few of these packages are required by other packages (by Depends, Imports, or LinkingTo) Required by Packages 0 7549 1-9 1805 10-99 393 100-999 111 1000-1999 18 2000+ 8 So there are 8 packages required […] [Read more...]