Report Generation is a very important part in any Organization’s Business Intelligence and Analytics Division. The ability to create automated reports out of the given data is one of the most desirable things, that any innovative team would thrive for. And that is one area where SAS is considered ... [Read more...]

The tenth (!!) annual annual R/Finance conference will take in Chicago on the UIC campus on June 1 and 2, 2018. Please see the call for papers below (or at the website) and consider submitting a paper. We are once again very excited about our conference, thrilled about who we hope may agree ... [Read more...]

A shiny new (mostly-but-not-completely maintenance) release of RQuantLib, now at version 0.4.4, arrived on CRAN overnight, and will get to Debian shortly. This is the first release in over a year, and it it contains (mostly) a small number of fixes t... [Read more...]

Finally, after a long wait, the R packages googlePublicData (more than 2 years since the last update!) and ABCoptim (roughly a year since the last update) have new versions on CRAN. The first just got an update that fixed some nasty bugs that were evid... [Read more...]

The rgexf R package has been around a couple of years now, but without much going on on CRAN (my bad!). In this post I’ll show how to use the new version (on development and soon the be shipped to CRAN) together with the netdiffuseR R package to visualize ... [Read more...]

Nearly 4 years ago I wrote on this blog about an R package solr for working with the database Solr. Since then we’ve created a refresh of that package in the solrium package. Since solrium first hit CRAN about two years ago, users have raised a number of issues that ... [Read more...]

In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users. A recent survey of competitors on the Kaggle platform reveals that Python (76%) and R (59%) are the preferred tools for building predictive models. Microsoft's "Team Data Science Process" has been updated with new guidelines ... [Read more...]

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MilanoR is a free event, open to all R users and enthusiasts or those who wish to learn more about R. The meeting consists of two talks (this time one about big data and and one about statistical learning) + a free buffet and networking time The post 9th MilanoR Meeting: ... [Read more...]

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First off, here are the previous posts in my Bayesian sampling series: Bayesian Simple Linear Regression with Gibbs Sampling in R Blocked Gibbs Sampling in R for Bayesian Multiple Linear Regression In the first post, I illustrated Gibbs Sampling - an algorithm for getting draws from a posterior when conditional ... [Read more...]

The fourth update of the 3.6.x release of simmer, the Discrete-Event Simulator for R, is on CRAN. This release patches several bugs regarding resource priority and preemption management when seized amounts greater than one were involved. Check the examples available in the corresponding issues on GitHub (#114, #115, #116) to know if you ... [Read more...]

Magento is my bread and butter and I like to do data analysis with R. Hence I though, can I access Magento 2 data through R directly, without need of export or connect to the database? Magento 2 has API, so I’ve decided to give it a try. Magento (including… The ... [Read more...]

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Last spring, I posted about my version of a modified age-bias plot. One reader commented on that post via Twitter – “Now that you solved the age-bias plot, how about the ‘best’ display of back-calculated length-at-age data, with Von... [Read more...]

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A first maintenance release of RcppQuantuccia got to CRAN earlier today. RcppQuantuccia brings the Quantuccia header-only subset / variant of QuantLib to R. At present it mostly offers calendaring, but Quantuccia just got a decent amount of new funct... [Read more...]

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I want to try and probe a question that was raised since Las Vegas and now revived due to the tragedy in Sutherland Springs,TX: Given the free trade between states, can a state unilaterally regulate firearms. This post will try to start to give an answer to this question ... [Read more...]