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Bioinformatics platform at Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology has been organizing computational genomics courses in Berlin since 2015. This year we will focus on bisulfite sequencing analysis and genomics data integration.The course will cover the following:1) bisulfite-seq analysis (alignment, QC, differential methylation, segmentation)2) integrating and visualizing processed genomics data. ... [Read more...]

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Microsoft R Open (MRO), Microsoft's enhanced distribution of open source R, has been upgraded to version 3.4.3 and is now available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This update upgrades the R language engine to the latest R (version 3.4.3) and updates the bundled packages (specifically: checkpoint, curl, doParallel, foreach, and ... [Read more...]

Thank you for travelling with Deutsche Bahn - I was searching for open data on the internet and found some interesting datasets on the website of the Deutsche Bahn. They provide a huge dataset (~ 2 GB) of Wifi access of their ICE fleet on thr... [Read more...]

Mazama Science has released the first official version (1.0) of the PWFSLSmoke R package for working with PM2.5 monitoring data. A beta version was released last year, along with an accompanying blog post. In this post, we discuss the purpose …   read more ... [Read more...]

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The new package simmer.bricks has found its way to CRAN. The simmer package provides a rich and flexible API to build discrete-event simulations. However, there are certain recurring patterns that are typed over and over again, higher-level tasks which can be conceptualised in concrete activity sequences. This new package ... [Read more...]

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Am update of RcppMsgPack got onto CRAN today. It contains a number of enhancements Travers had been working on, as well as one thing CRAN asked us to do in making a suggested package optional. MessagePack itself is an efficient binary serialization f... [Read more...]

Pie chart has been criticized for being a poor visualization and is not recommended in R community. The popular ggplot2 package discourages the use of pie charts and there is no dedicated geom_pie for it. Although the criticism is mostly valid, there is a case that pie chart can ... [Read more...]

Use purrr and nested pipes to get to the juicy parts of XML, HTML, JSON and other kinds of files. [Read more...]

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The problem Text-mining - the art of answering questions by extracting patterns, data, etc. out of the published literature - is not easy. It’s made incredibly difficult because of publishers. It is a fact that the vast majority of publicly funded research across the globe is published in paywall ... [Read more...]

The SparklyR package from RStudio provides a high-level interface to Spark from R. This means you can create R objects that point to data frames stored in the Spark cluster and apply some familiar R paradigms (like dplyr) to the data, all the while leveraging Spark's distributed architecture without having ... [Read more...]

I have created a new R data package to help users obtain national population statistics of Mexico. The conapomx package contains the mxpopulation data set, which is a tidy data.frame containing population estimates from the CONAPO (National Population Commission) official agency. The estimates are divided by age groups, gender, ... [Read more...]

I have created a new data package for R to help users obtain national population statistics of Mexico. The conapomx package contains the mxpopulation data set, which is a tidy data.frame containing population estimates from the CONAPO (National Population Commission) official agency. The estimates are divided by age groups, ... [Read more...]

I have created a new data package for R to help users obtain national population statistics of Mexico. The conapomx package contains the mxpopulation data set, which is a tidy data.frame containing population estimates from the CONAPO (National Population Commission) official agency. The estimates are divided by age groups, ... [Read more...]