Very excited about the next few weeks which will cover a number of R conferences, workshops or classes with talks, mostly around Rcpp and one notable exception: May 19: Rcpp: From Simple Examples to Machine learning, pre-conference workshop at our R... [Read more...]

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We’ve just released timekit v0.3.0 to CRAN. The package updates include changes that help with making an accurate future time series with tk_make_future_timeseries() and we’ve added a few features to tk_get_timeseries_signature(). Most important ar... [Read more...]

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At the New York R Conference earlier this year, my colleague Lixun Zhang gave a presentation on the challenges and opportunites financial services companies encounter when using R. In the talk, he shares some lessons learned while working with an couple of international banks that have been using SAS, but ... [Read more...]

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What tools do we use most for data science, machine learning, or analytics? Python, R, SAS, KNIME, RapidMiner,…? How do we use them? We are about to find out as the two most popular surveys on data science tools have … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Most of the examples of working with most of the AWS services show basic username & password authentication. That’s all well-and-good, but many shops use the AWS Security Token Service to provide temporary credentials and session tokens to limit exposure and provide more uniform multi-factor authentication. At my workplace, Frank ... [Read more...]

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It has been a long held dream of mine to create a spinning globe using nothing but R (I wish I was joking, but I’m not). Thanks to the brilliant mapmate package created by Matt Leonawicz and shed loads of computing power, today that dream became a reality. The ... [Read more...]

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We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2‑13, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository. This release comes with the following changes: Upgraded to Apache POI 3.16 Performance improvements to setCellStyle for lar... [Read more...]

We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2‑13, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository. This release comes with the following changes: Upgraded to Apache POI 3.16 Performance improvements to setCellStyle for lar... [Read more...]

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I had misunderstood the function missing() for several years. Originally I thought it only applies to an argument that does not have a default or user-specified value. For example, this is fairly easy to understand: f = function(x) { missing(x) } f() # should be TRUE One day I was surprised to ... [Read more...]

shinyMlr is a web application, built with the R-package “shiny” that provides a user interface for mlr. By wrapping the main functionalities of mlr into our app, as well as implementing additional features for data visualisation and data preprocessing, we built a widely usable application for your day to day ... [Read more...]

The new Visual Studio 2017 has built-in support for programming in R and Python. For older versions of Visual Studio, support for these languages has been available via the RTVS and PTVS add-ins, but the new Data Science Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 make them available without a separate add-in. Just choose ... [Read more...]