February 2018

A fresh look for base graphics

February 15, 2018 | David Smith

While ggplot2 (and its various extensions) is often the go-to package for graphics in R these days, if you need to step outside the boundaries of what ggplot2 can do, you can always step back to base R graphics (and the built-in lattice package) and customize to your hearts content. ... [Read more...]

Explain R environments like I’m five

February 14, 2018 | Colin Fay

“Can you explain me what are environments in R?” The beginning of a series of blogpost about R concepts, explained to my daughter. Side note: no, my daughter is not five, and she’s not named Alice. And she doesn’t speak english either ¯\(... [Read more...]

Mandalas

February 14, 2018 | @aschinchon

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world (Marcus Du Sautoy, mathematician) From time to time I have a look to some of my previous posts: it’s like seeing them through another’s eyes. One of my first posts ...
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BH 1.66.0-1

February 13, 2018 | Thinking inside the box

A new release of the BH package arrived on CRAN a little earlier: now at release 1.66.0-1. BH provides a sizeable portion of the Boost C++ libraries as a set of template headers for use by R, possibly with Rcpp as well as other packages. This release... [Read more...]

jamovi for R: Easy but Controversial

February 13, 2018 | Bob Muenchen

jamovi is software that aims to simplify two aspects of using R. It offers a point-and-click graphical user interface (GUI). It also provides functions that combines the capabilities of many others, bringing a more SPSS- or SAS-like method of programming … Continue reading →
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Using UMAP in R with rPython

February 13, 2018 | schochastics

I wrote about dimensionality reduction methods before and now, there seems to be a new rising star in that field, namely the Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection, short UMAP. The paper can be found here, but be warned: It is really math-heavy. From the abstract: UMAP is constructed from a ... [Read more...]

Deep learning at rstudio::conf 2018

February 13, 2018 | R Views

Two weeks ago, rstudio::conf 2018 was held in San Diego. We had 1,100 people attend the sold-out event. In this post, I summarize my experience of the talks on the topic of deep learning with R, including the keynote by J.J. Allaire. Keynote The keynote on the second day was ...
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Regularized Greedy Forest in R

February 13, 2018 | mlampros

This blog post is about my newly released RGF package (the blog post consists mainly of the package Vignette). The RGF package is a wrapper of the Regularized Greedy Forest python package, which also includes a Multi-core implementation (Fast... [Read more...]

weakly informative reparameterisations

February 13, 2018 | xi'an

Our paper, weakly informative reparameterisations of location-scale mixtures, with Kaniav Kamary and Kate Lee, got accepted by JCGS! Great news, which comes in perfect timing for Kaniav as she is currently applying for positions. The paper proposes a unidimensional mixture Bayesian modelling based on the first and second moment constraints, ...
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