I was fascinated by this xkcd comic about where to live based on your temperature preferences. I also thought it’d be fun to try to make a similar one from my R session! Since I’m no meteorologist and was a bit unsure of how to define winter and ... [Read more...]

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Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now A simple one-line tweak can significantly speed up package installation and updates. See my post at the Jumping Rivers blog (no point duplicating content in two places)   [Read more...]

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Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now The wonder of CRAN Parallel package installation: Ncpus Does it work? A permanent change: .Rprofile References Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now A simple one line tweak can significantly speed up package installation and updates. The wonder of CRAN One ... [Read more...]

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The ggmap package allows you to download and plot basic maps from Google maps ... The post How to plot basic maps with ggmap appeared first on SHARP SIGHT LABS. [Read more...]

As a useful note to self, I paste here an easy example on the use of the pathview package by Weijun Luo to plot the log fold change of gene expression across a given KEGG pathway. This example is on Vitis vinifera (as the prefix vvi can suggest), but the ... [Read more...]

Last week I shared a thought on Twitter: When you’ve written the same code 3 times, write a functionWhen you’ve given the same in-person advice 3 times, write a blog post— David Robinson (@drob) November 9, 2017 Ironically, this tweet hints at a piece of advice I’ve given at least 3 dozen ... [Read more...]

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MRAN, the Microsoft R Application Network has been migrated to a new high-performance, high-availability server, and we've taken the opportunity to make a few upgrades along the way. You shouldn't notice any breaking changes (of course if you do, please let us know), but you should notice faster performance for ... [Read more...]

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study of 15-year-old school pupils’ scholastic performance in mathematics, science, and reading. Every three years more than 500 000 pupils from 60+ countries are surveyed along with their parents and school representatives. The study yields in more than 1000 variables concerning performance, attitude and ... [Read more...]

I have funding for a new post-doctoral research fellow, on a 2-year contract, to work with me and Professor Kate Smith-Miles on analysing large collections of time series data. We are particularly seeking someone with a PhD in computational statistics or statistical machine learning. Desirable characteristics: Experience with time series ... [Read more...]

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