The RcppGSL package provides an interface from R to the GNU GSL using the Rcpp package. RcppGSL release 0.3.2 is one of several maintenance releases this weekend to fix an issue flagged by CRAN: calls to .Call() sometimes used package= where PACKAGE=... [Read more...]

RcppSMC provides Rcpp-based bindings to R for them Sequential Monte Carlo Template Classes (SMCTC) by Adam Johansen described in his JSS article. RcppSMC release 0.1.5 is one of several maintenance releases this weekend to fix an issue flagged by CRA... [Read more...]

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A new update of my sjPlot-package was just released on CRAN. Thanks to @c_schwemmer, it’s now possible to easily integrate the HTML-ouput of all table-functions into knitr-rmarkdown-documents.… Read more "Direct integration of sjPlot-tables in knitr-rmarkdown-documents #rstats" [Read more...]

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- Facebook recently released a API package allowing access to its forecasting model called prophet. According to the underling post: It's not your traditional ARIMA-style time series model. It's closer in spirit to a Bayesian-... [Read more...]

  We have 2 legends, Biggie Smalls and Nas. At the 1:00 mark, Nasty Nas receives a Nasty Rubdown. Pretty sure this was the inspiration for Boosie’s Wipe Me Down. I made a .gif version using a pen, a tablet, and command line ‘ImageMagick‘. But the resulting FPS was slow, so I ... [Read more...]

While the previous posts on [crayon-58bb8f9870904801159552-i/] function contained two parts: theory of ETS and then the implementation – this post will cover only the latter. We won’t discuss anything new, we will mainly look into several parameters that the exponential smoothing function has and what they allow ... [Read more...]

I’m excited to announce the release of tidyquant version 0.4.0!!! The release is yet again sizable. It includes integration with the PerformanceAnalytics package, which now enables full financial analyses to be performed without ever leaving the “t... [Read more...]

While R's base graphics library is almost limitlessly flexible when it comes to create static graphics and data visualizations, new Web-based technologies like d3 and webgl open up new horizons in high-resolution, rescalable and interactive charts. Graphics built with these libraries can easily be embedded in a webpage, can be ... [Read more...]

The iterated principal factor method is an extension of the principal factor method that seeks improved estimates of the communality. As seen in the previous post on the principal factor method, initial estimates of or are found to obtain from which the factors are computed. In the iterated principal factor... ... [Read more...]

Hi R enthusiasts, we've released episode 12 of our DataChats video series. In this episode, we interview David Stoffer. David is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Pittsburgh. He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Time Ser... [Read more...]

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by Sean Lopp If you spend time with an excellent programmer, one thing that immediately jumps out is how quickly she can write code. It often appears to be magic, the number of keystrokes simply can’t equal the number of characters on the screen. The secret: it doesn’t! ... [Read more...]

At the OZCOTS (Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics) in late 2016 George Cobb gave a great talk entitled “Ask not what data science can do for the Humanities. Ask rather, what the Humanities can do for data science.” “George Cobb of M... [Read more...]

The which() function will return the position of the elements(i.e., row number/column number/array index) in a logical vector which are TRUE. [Read more...]

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