I have several tables that I would like to load as a sole data frame. Derived functions from read. table () have a lot of convenient features, but it seems like there is a lot of steps in the implementation that would slow things down. The gain in pe... [Read more...]

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In the last couple of years, there has been a lot of buzz around open source community. Almost every day, there are a lot of tools being open sourced. With a ton of open source tools in the market, don’t expect to have drivers built for every platform. I ... [Read more...]

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by Mark Niemann-Ross, an author, educator, and writer who teaches about R and Raspberry Pi at LinkedIn Learning I spend a LOT of time at r-project.org, in particular the sections for documentation and CRAN. But I hadn’t spent much time in the other areas: R Project, R Foundation, ... [Read more...]

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A new version 0.4.7 of RQuantLib reached CRAN and Debian. Following up on the recent 0.4.6 release post which contained a dual call for help: RQuantLib was (is !!) still in need of a macOS library build, but also experienced issues on Windows. Since ... [Read more...]

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After my talks in Barcelona, I have started thinking about potential improvements or changes, mostly to do in BCEA — I got some nice comments from quite a few people, some of whom were asking for some tweaks or extra facilities. Obviously, I&rsq... [Read more...]

By Amy Peterson Studying genetic differential expression using postmortem human brain tissue requires an understanding of the effect brain tissue degradation has on genetic expression. Particularly when brain tissue degradation confounds1 the differences in gene expression levels between subject groups. This problem of confounding necessitates measures from a control dataset ... [Read more...]

By Amy Peterson Studying genetic differential expression using postmortem human brain tissue requires an understanding of the effect brain tissue degradation has on genetic expression. Particularly when brain tissue degradation confounds1 the differences in gene expression levels between subject groups. This problem of confounding necessitates measures from a control dataset ... [Read more...]

After my talks in Barcelona, I have started thinking about potential improvements or changes, mostly to do in BCEA — I got some nice comments from quite a few people, some of whom were asking for some tweaks or extra facilities. Obviously, I’ve not prioritised any of those requests… But: ... [Read more...]

I never really thought I would write an R package. I use R pretty casually. Then, this year, I was invited to participate during the last week of the Analytical Paleobiology short course, an intensive month-long experience in quantitative paleontology. I was thrilled to be invited. But I got a ... [Read more...]

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On December 9 2008, very nearly ten years ago, the first post on Revolutions was published. Way back then, this blog was part of a young startup called Revolution Computing, which later became Revolution Analytics. (That name persists to this day in the URL of this blog.) The idea at that time ... [Read more...]

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