The foreach package provides a simple looping construct for R: the foreach function, which you may be familiar with from other languages like Javascript or C#. It's basically a function-based version of a "for" loop. But what makes foreach useful isn't iteration: it's the way it makes it easy to ... [Read more...]

In the last set of exercises, we worked on the basic concepts of string manipulation with stringr. In this one we will go further into hacking strings universe and learn how to use stringi package.Note that stringi acts as a backend of stringr but have many more useful string ... [Read more...]

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The third update of the 3.6.x release of simmer, the Discrete-Event Simulator for R, is on CRAN. First of all and once again, I must thank Duncan Garmonsway (@nacnudus) for writing a new vignette: “The Bank Tutorial: Part II”. Among various fixes and performance improvements, this release provides a way ... [Read more...]

There has been a resurgence of interest in data visualizations inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover. These so-called “Joy Plots” are easier to create thanks to the development of the “ggjoy” R package and also some nice code posted using D3. I produced a global population map (... [Read more...]

The visualization of complex data sets is of essential importance in communicating your data products. Beyond pie charts, histograms, line graphs and other common forms of visual communication begins the reign of data sets that encompass too much information to be easily captured by these simple data displays. A typical ... [Read more...]

There has been a bit of a buzz recently about so-called “joyplots.” Wilke described joyplots as “partially overlapping line plots that create the impression of a mountain range.” I would describe them as partially overlapping densit... [Read more...]

Motivation Today we will run through an important concept in statistical learning theory and modeling in general. It may come as no surprise that my point is as usual “age quod agis”. This is a lifelong strive for me to convey that message to fellow scientists and business people alike. ... [Read more...]

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The data set on German fuel prices contains the fuel prices, but not the sales, from more than 14000 fuel stations in Germany since June 2014. It is made available by the webservice Tankerkoenig as a Postgres dump (from June 2014 onwards) under CC... [Read more...]

I am very much looking forward to attending JSM which begins this Sunday. And once again, I will be spending a good bit of my time hunting for new and interesting applications of R. In years gone by, this was a difficult game at JSM because R, R Package, Shiny, ... [Read more...]

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It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Apache Drill. One big strength of the platform is that it normalizes the access to diverse data sources down to ANSI SQL calls, which means that I can pull data from parquet, Hie, HBase, Kudu, CSV, JSON, MongoDB and MariaDB ... [Read more...]

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R is an object-oriented language with several object-orientation systems. There's the original (and still widely-used) S3 class system based on the "class" attribute. There's the somewhat stricter, signature-based S4 class system. There are reference classes (also called R5), which provide R objects with multiple references without duplicating data in memory. ... [Read more...]

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Hello R-users, On June 29th we had the great pleasure to host the RStudio in Milano at Impact Hub. It went absolutely well with great participation, thank you all! This post is just to give the materials to those of you who could not make it or just want to ... [Read more...]

I recently bought a new laptop and began installing essential software all over again, including R of course! And I wanted all the libraries that I had installed in my previous laptop. Instead of installing libraries one by one all over again, I did the following: Step 1: Save a list ... [Read more...]