This note lists a few places where one can ask R-related questions and get an answer, usually in no more than a few hours. Why Anyone who has learnt a programming language has a history of questions that they have asked to: themselves – usually f... [Read more...]

The only point of this note is to invite you to fill in the R language survey launched by the R Consortium earlier this month. The official announcement of the survey reads: Please take the survey yourself and help us spread the word on social me... [Read more...]

The only point of this note is to invite you to fill in the R language survey launched by the R Consortium earlier this month. The official announcement of the survey reads: Please take the survey yourself and help us spread the word on social media, by word of mouth, ... [Read more...]

This note lists a few places where one can ask R-related questions and get an answer, usually in no more than a few hours. Why Anyone who has learnt a programming language has a history of questions that they have asked to: themselves – usually followed by a lot of documentation ... [Read more...]

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The title may seem tautological, but since the arrival of dplyr 0.7.x, there have been some efforts at using dplyr without actually using it that I can’t quite understand. The tidyverse has raised passions, for and against it, for some time already. There are excellent alternatives out there, and ... [Read more...]

Annotation & Sankey Charts In the eighth part of our series we are going to learn about the features of some interesting types of charts. More specifically we will talk about Annotation and Sankey charts. Read the examples below to understand the logic of what we are going to do and ... [Read more...]

It has been a while since any kind of significant update has been released for the ggetern library, and the other day a minor update was submitted to CRAN, which is now available. There were a few minor bug fixes, and the inclusion of a few new geometries which some ... [Read more...]

Geospatial RQGIS: Integrating R with QGIS for Innovative Geocomputing (Jannes Muenchow) Exploring and presenting maps with tmap (Martijn Tennekes) Maps are data, so why plot data on a map? (Mark Padgham) Geospatial Visualization using R (Bhaskar V. Karambelkar) Spatial Data in R: New Directions (Edzer Pebesma) mapedit - interactive manipulation ... [Read more...]

This blog post will be fairly short, given the minor nature of the update. Several users complained about OAUTH2 authentication not working, which I didn’t know because I usually use the legacy authentication method! Luckily, GitHub user leocwlau re... [Read more...]

In the second part in a series on Tidy Time Series Analysis, we’ll again use tidyquant to investigate CRAN downloads this time focusing on Rolling Functions. If you haven’t checked out the previous post on period apply functions, you may want to re... [Read more...]

seplyr is an R package that makes it easy to program over dplyr 0.7.*. To illustrate this we will work an example. Suppose you had worked out a dplyr pipeline that performed an analysis you were interested in. For an example we could take something similar to one of the examples ... [Read more...]

At my day job I’m a data manager and statistician for an epidemiology project called CHAI lead by Cathryn Tonne. CHAI means “Cardio-vascular health effects of air pollution in Telangana, India” and you can find more about it in our recently publi... [Read more...]

At my day job I’m a data manager and statistician for an epidemiology project called CHAI lead by Cathryn Tonne. CHAI means “Cardio-vascular health effects of air pollution in Telangana, India” and you can find more about it in our recently publi... [Read more...]

It was another productive week in Stan land. The big news is that Jonathan Auerbach, Tim Jones, Susanna Makela, Swupnil Sahai, and Robin Winstanley won first place in a New York City competition for predicting elementary school enrollment. Jonathan told me, “I heard 192 entered, and there were 5 finalists….Of course, ... [Read more...]

It was another productive week in Stan land. The big news is that Jonathan Auerbach reports that A team of Columbia students (mostly Andrew’s, including myself) recently won first place in a competition predicting elementary school enrollment. I heard 192 entered, and there were 5 finalists….Of course, we used Stan (... [Read more...]

IEEE Spectrum has published its fourth annual ranking of of top programming languages, and the R language is again featured in the Top 10. This year R ranks at #6, down a spot from its 2016 ranking (and with an IEEE score — derived from search, social media, and job listing trends — tied with ... [Read more...]

Introduction R Markdown is one of the most popular data science tools and is used to save and execute code to create exceptional reports whice are easily shareable. The documents that R Markdown provides are fully reproducible and support a wide variety of static and dynamic output formats. R Markdown ... [Read more...]

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I recently read the high quality book Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic. When reading this sort of thing, I often find I can increase my engagement with a topic by playing around with the data myself. In this day and age, this is much more likely... [Read more...]