Aimée Gott, Education Practice Lead For the last week we've been talking on the blog and Twitter about some of the functionality in Shiny and how you can learn it. But, if you haven't already made the leap and started using Shiny, why should you? What is the challenge ...

In this post we analyzed the exchange rate of the argentine peso and the US dollar from 2000 until the present. We looked for data on the internet and parsed it with AWK. Then, we did plots to visualize data with R.

For the last week we’ve been talking on the blog and Twitter about some of the functionality in Shiny and how you can learn it. But, if you haven’t already made the leap and started using Shiny, why should you? What is the challenge to be solved? At ...

Tenth post of our series on classification from scratch. Today, we’ll see the heuristics of the algorithm inside bagging techniques. Often, bagging is associated with trees, to generate forests. But actually, it is possible using bagging for any kind of model. Recall that bagging means “boostrap aggregation”. So, consider ...

INTRODUCTION With flexdashboard, you can easily create interactive dashboards for R. What is amazing about it is that with R Markdown, you can publish a group of related data visualizations as a dashboard. Additionally, it supports a wide variety of components, including htmlwidgets; base, lattice, and grid graphics; tabular data; ...

Another maintenance release of our pinp package for snazzier one or two column vignettes is getting onto CRAN right now. Everybody's favourite Swiss Army Knife of text processing and document conversion, pandoc, decided in all its wisdow for version ...

Dr. Julia Silge [@juliasilge on Twitter] is a data scientist at Stack Overflow. We talked about why R brings Julia joy, her path to a career in data science and what it was like to co-write a book for O’Reilly Media. This interview occurred on February 3, 2018 at the RStudio ...

The proposed solution of the riddle from the Riddler discussed here a few weeks ago is rather approximative, in that the distribution of when the n-sample is made of iid Normal variates is (a) replaced with the distribution of one arbitrary minimum and (b) the distribution of the minimum is ...

A colleague asked if I would blog about how I crafted the grid of world tile grids in this post and I accepted the challenge. The technique isn’t too hard as it just builds on the initial work by Jon Schwabish and a handy file made by Maarten Lambrechts. ...

Version 0.9.5.0 of stringdist is accepted on CRAN (binaries for non-linux OSs will be available in a few days). The main new feature, with a huge thanks to our awesome new contributor Chris Muir, is that we made it easy … Continue reading →

Ava Yang, Data Scientist There are times when it costs more than it should to leverage javascript, database, html, models and algorithms in one language. Now maybe is time for connecting some dots, without stretching too much. If you have been developing shiny apps, consider letting it sit on one ...

There are severals reasons you would want to deploy your own R archive repo: you don’t want to rely on GitHub for your dev packages, you want to use a more “confidential” way, or maybe (and that’s good enough a reason), you’re a nerd and you like ...