Motivation Column operations Add Modify Remove Benchmark Summary Motivation The dplyr functions select and mutate nowadays are commonly applied to perform data.frame column operations, frequently combined with magrittrs forward %__% pipe. While working well interactively, however, these methods often would require additional checking if used in “serious” code, for example, ...

We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but ...

Motivation The dplyr functions select and mutate nowadays are commonly applied to perform data.frame column operations, frequently combined with magrittrs forward %__% pipe. While working well interactively, however, these methods often would require additional checking if used in “serious” code, for example, to catch column name clashes. In principle, the ...

Continuing on with my “slight?” obsession with colours… I love colours in “Material Colour Palette”. There various website that will lets you grab the colours by clicking, such as this one, but I just wanted to have little handy cheet sheet for myself, so I’ve decided I’ll do ...

Once again, I gives me great pleasure to announce a new package has joined CRAN. transformr is the spatial brother of tweenr and as with the tweenr update a few months ago, this package is very much driven by the infrastructural needs of gganimate. It is probably the last piece ...

Exploratory data analysis is important, everybody knows that. With R, it is also easy. Below you see three lines of code that allow you to interactively explore the Preston Curve, the prominent association of country level real income per capita with life expectancy.

install.packages("ExPanDaR")
library(ExPanDaR)
wb <- read.csv("https://joachim-gassen.github.io/data/wb_condensed.csv")
ExPanD(wb, cs_id = "country", ts_id = "year")

After running these three lines of ...

This note is a comment on some of the timings shared in the dplyr-0.8.0 pre-release announcement. The original published timings were as follows: With performance metrics: measurements are marketing. So let’s dig in the above a bit. These timings are of the kind of small task large number of ...

We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but ...

Time really does fly. It’s been 5 months since Delhi NCR useR group had come into being and our first meetup. It was a successful event which included sessions featuring an R-core member and a veteran data scientist. More importantly, …

We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but ...