I’ll admit I didn’t really know who Bill Nye was before yesterday. His name sounds a bit like Bill Nighy’s, that’s all I knew. But well science is all around and quite often scientists on Twitter start interesting campaigns. Remember the #actua... [Read more...]

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In the exercises below we cover the basics of functional programming in R( part 1 of a two series exercises on functional programming) . We consider recursion with R , apply family of functions , higher order functions such as Map ,Reduce,Filter in R . Answers to the exercises are available here. If you ... [Read more...]

About the book This book applies tidy data principles to text analysis. The aim is to present tools to make many text mining tasks easier, more effective, and consistent with tools already in use, and in particular it presents the tidytext R pack... [Read more...]

by Le Zhang (Data Scientist, Microsoft) and Graham Williams (Director of Data Science, Microsoft) The Azure Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) is a curated VM which provides commonly-used tools and software for data science and machine learning, pre-installed. AzureDSVM is a new R package that enables seamless interaction with the ... [Read more...]

If you weren't able to make it to Chicago for R/Finance, the annual conference devoted to applications of R in the financial industry, don't fret: the entire conference is being livestreamed (with thanks to the team at Microsoft). You can watch the proceedings at aka.ms/r_finance, and ... [Read more...]

I have 8 packages published within the Bioconductor project. ChIPseeker clusterProfiler DOSE ggtree GOSemSim meshes ReactomePA treeio A new package treeio was included in BioC 3.5 release. ChIPseeker Bug fixed of intron rank and optimized getGeneAnno function. clusterProfiler Defined simplify generics as it was removed from IRanges. enrichGO now supports ont="ALL" ... [Read more...]

In this post, I describe the latest iteration of my automatic document production with R. It improves upon the methods used in Rtraining, and previous work on this topic can read by going to the auto deploying R documentation tag. I keep banging on about this area because reproducible research / ... [Read more...]

In this post, I describe the latest iteration of my automatic document production with R. It improves upon the methods used in Rtraining, and previous work on this topic can read by going to the auto deploying R documentation tag. The post Improving automatic document production with R appeared first ... [Read more...]

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This document describes the ‘vwline’ package, which provides an R interface for drawing variable-width curves. The package provides functions to draw line segments through a set of locations, or a smooth curve relative to a set of control points, with the width of the line allowed to vary along the ... [Read more...]

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I have used on.exit() for several years, but it was not until the other day that I realized a very weird thing about it: you’d better follow the default positions of its arguments expr and add, i.e., the first argument has to be expr and the second ... [Read more...]

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This set of exercises will help you to help you improve your skills with character functions in R. Most of the exercises are related with text mining, a statistical technique that analyses text using statistics. If you find them interesting I would suggest checking the library tm, this includes functions ... [Read more...]

Get the most out of the EARL Conference with the new phone app, available on iTunes and Google play. View the agenda, speakers, and sponsors in the palm of your hand. Bookmark the sessions you’d like to attend and rate … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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