July 2018

Joint Statistical Meetings Talk

July 31, 2018 | R on Abhijit Dasgupta

The Joint Statistical Meetings are being held in the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia this year. I gave a talk on data visualization this year, which is a new one for me, but an area I’m quite excited about. I’ve been looking into the newer toolsets using ... [Read more...]

Beyond Basic R – Data Munging

July 31, 2018 | The USGS OWI blog

What we couldn’t cover In the data cleaning portion of our Intro to R class, we cover a variety of common data manipulation tasks. Most of these were achieved using the package dplyr, including removing or retaining certain columns (select), filtering out rows by column condition (filter), creating new ...
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Analyze party platforms in R the tidy way

July 31, 2018 | Lesley Lathrop

Let’s face it: When it comes to politics this country is exceedingly polarized. What I would like to do is quantify that polarization. To do this, I will use the platform documents that each of the political parties create during presidential election years. I’ll be using the tidy ... [Read more...]

How to get live stock prices with Python

July 31, 2018 | Andrew Treadway

In a previous post, I gave an introduction to the yahoo_fin package. The most updated version of the package includes new functionality allowing you to scrape live stock prices from Yahoo Finance (real-time). In this article, we’ll go through a couple ways of getting real-time data from Yahoo ...
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Assignment in R: slings and arrows

July 30, 2018 | Chris

Having recently shared my post about defensive programming in R on the r/rstats subreddit, I was blown away by the sheer number of comments as much as I was blown away by the insight many displayed. One particular comment by u/guepier struck my attention. In my previous post, ...
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A Certification for R Package Quality

July 30, 2018 | David Smith

There are more than 12,000 packages for R available on CRAN, and many others available on Github and elsewhere. But how can you be sure that a given R package follows best development practices for high-quality, secure software? Based on a recent survey of R users related to challenges in selecting ... [Read more...]

R Consortium Proposal Accepted!

July 30, 2018 | Ari Lamstein

Today I am happy to announce that my proposal to the R Consortium was accepted! I first announced that I was submitting a proposal back... The post R Consortium Proposal Accepted! appeared first on AriLamstein.com.
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