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In last weeks post we tantalised you with upcoming R & data science conferences, but from a cost point view, not all R conferences are the same. Using the R conference site, it’s fairly easy to compare the cost of previous R conferences. I select... [Read more...]

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The fourth release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the now more than ten-year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. In my very biased ... [Read more...]

Tidy data — it’s one of those terms that tend to confuse people, and certainly confused me. It’s Codd’s third normal form, but you can’t go around telling that to people and expect to be understood. One form is ”long”, the other is ”wide”. One form is ”... [Read more...]

I have to comute quite long every day and I always try to keep occupied with little projects. One of my first projects was to increase my knowledge on how to create R packages. The result of it is Rokemon, a Pokemon/Game Boy inspired package. In this post, I ... [Read more...]

End October I tweeted this: will teach #rstats soon again but this time following @drob 's suggestion of the tidyverse first as laid out here: https://t.co/js8SsUs8Nv— Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco) October 24, 2017 and it generated some discussion. Some people believe that this is the right approach, and ... [Read more...]

Week 15 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold! The post Gold-Mining Week 15 (2017) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

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A new version of drat just arrived on CRAN as another no-human-can-delay-this automatic upgrade directly from the CRAN prechecks (though I did need a manual reminder from Uwe to remove a now stale drat repo URL -- bad @hrbrmstr -- from the README in... [Read more...]

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This post we turn to R-shiny. First, we embed someone else’s existing shiny-app as an example to check that everything works as expected. For the embedding we use an iframe. We install the wordpress plugin Reframer The R-shiny app is from http://stla.github.io and is referenced in ... [Read more...]

A small maintenance release, version 0.6.13, of the digest package arrived on CRAN and in Debian yesterday. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the 'md5', 'sha-1', 'sha-256', 'crc32', 'xxhash' and 'murmurhash' algorithms) permit... [Read more...]

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Our brand-new baby received a fantastic picture book as a gift: Possum magic, a classic for Aussie kids. Thanks, Miles! In that book, Hush the possum and her Grandma Poss encounter different Australian animals and travel across well eat their way through the country. It is an adorable story with ... [Read more...]

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Some (opinionated) themes and highlights from this year’s NIPS conference: [Read more...]

One out of quite a lot of confusing things about R is that it has two kinds of conditional expression. There’s ifelse(); and there’s the if statement. It’s important to know which one to use, as I found when trying to write a conditional expression that chose ... [Read more...]