We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2-14, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository. This release is mainly a maintenance release and comes with the following changes: Upgrade to Apache POI 3.17 Upgraded XLCo... [Read more...]

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Publication quality base R graphics Fixing the problem Why not use ggplot2 (or something else)? Publication quality base R graphics Base R graphics get a bad press (although to be fair, they could have chosen their default values better). In general, they are viewed as a throw back to the ... [Read more...]

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In a recent release of tidytext, we added tidiers and support for building Structural Topic Models from the stm package. This is my current favorite implementation of topic modeling in R, so let’s walk through an example of how to get started with th... [Read more...]

DBI What is DBI? DBI is an R package. It defines an interface to relational database management systems (R/DBMS) that other R packages build upon to interact with a specific relational database, such as SQLite or PostgreSQL. NoSQL NoSQL databases are a very broad class of database that can ... [Read more...]

We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2-14, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository. This release is mainly a maintenance release and comes with the following changes: Upgrade to Apache POI 3.17 Upgraded XLCo... [Read more...]

Publication quality base R graphics Fixing the problem Why not use ggplot2 (or something else)? Publication quality base R graphics Base R graphics get a bad press (although to be fair, they could have chosen their default values better). In general, they are viewed as a throw back to the ... [Read more...]

In what is rapidly becoming a series — cool things you can do with R in a tweet — Julia Silge demonstrates scraping the list of members of the US house of representatives on Wikipedia in just 5 R statements: library(rvest) library(tidyverse) h % html_node("#mw-content-text __ div __ table:nth-child(18)") %__% html_table() ... [Read more...]

This report introduces the ‘roloc’ package for R, which provides functions for converting colour specifications into colour names. Paul Murrell Download [Read more...]

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Pretty recently I found a paper with the title “Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier. The topic of interpretability is very important in the times of complex machine learning models and it’s also related to my PhD topic (reliability of machine learning models). Therefore ... [Read more...]

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Exploratory data analysis, data preparation and model performance using 'funModeling' R package. [Read more...]

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There is a new version of the R package vtreat now up on CRAN. vtreat is an essential data preparation system for predictive modeling that helps defend your predictive modeling work against real world data issues including: High cardinality categorical variables Rare levels (including new or novel levels during application) ... [Read more...]

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