January 2018

Do you have bad R habits? Here’s how to identify and fix them.

January 2, 2018 | David Smith

RStudio's Jenny Bryan (whose recent interviews here and here you should definitely check out) has some excellent advice for improving your workflow for R: Use. Projects. — @JennyBryan at #EARLConf2017 #rstats pic.twitter.com/r4a08JhWHT — David Smith (@revodavid) September 13, 2017 If you're you're routinely using setwd to manually change R's ... [Read more...]

The Mcomp Package

January 2, 2018 | Giorgio Garziano

Makridakis Competitions (also known as the M Competitions or M-Competitions) are a series of competitions organized by teams led by forecasting researcher Spyros Makridakis and intended to evaluate and compare the accuracy of different forecasting methods. So far three competitions have taken place, named as M1 (1982), M2 (1993) and M3 (2000). The ...

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Bio7 2.7 Released

January 2, 2018 | R – Bio7 Website

02.01.2018 A new version of Bio7 is available. The application Bio7 is an integrated development environment for ecological modeling scientific image analysis and statistical analysis. Over the years Bio7 evolved to a platform useful for a broad scientific context. This release includes a plethora of new features and improvements for the ... [Read more...]

Sometimes learning is not fun

January 1, 2018 | Jamie Lendrum

Happy New Year! I’ve spent the time between Christmas and New Year being more productive than I would usually be, trying things out in R, some (relatively) successfully, others…not so much. I thought it would be worth writing about how embarking on Data Science isn’t all plain ... [Read more...]

Creating a Custom htmlwidget for Shiny

January 1, 2018 | Programming on nielsenmark.us

A year ago, htmlwidgets were a mystery to me. I was first introduced to them at a conference years ago. I previously used rCharts which I really liked because of the ability it gave me to customize my interactive graphs in Shiny. I approached an instructor and explained my interest ... [Read more...]

smooth functions in 2017

January 1, 2018 | Ivan Svetunkov

Over the year 2017 the [crayon-5a4afb5f2a18f739005075-i/] package has grown from v1.6.0 to v2.3.1. Now it is much more mature and has more downloads. It even now has its own hex (thanks to Fotios Petropoulos): A lot of changes happened in 2017, and it is hard to ... [Read more...]

Interpolating Statistical Tables

January 1, 2018 | Dave Giles

We've all experienced it. You go to use a statistical table - Standard Normal, Student-t, F, Chi Square - and the line that you need simply isn't there in the table. That's to say the table simply isn't detailed enough for our purposes. One question that always comes up when ... [Read more...]