January 2019

Statistics Sunday: Creating a Stacked Bar Chart for Rank Data

January 27, 2019 |

Stacked Bar Chart for Rank Data At work on Friday, I was trying to figure out the best way to display some rank data. What I had were rankings from 1-5 for 10 factors considered most important in a job (such as Salary, Insurance Benefits, and the Opportunity to Learn), meaning ...
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littler 0.3.6: Two neat enhancements

January 26, 2019 | Thinking inside the box

The seventh release of littler as a CRAN package is now available, following in the now more than twelve-year history as a package started by Jeff in 2006, and joined by me a few weeks later. littler is the first command-line interface for R and predates Rscript. And it is (in ... [Read more...]

R Vocabulary – Part 2

January 25, 2019 | Anindya Mozumdar

This is the second part of the series of articles on R vocabulary. In this series, we explore most of the functions mentioned in Chapter 2 of the book Advanced R. The first part of the series can be read here. The keyword function is used to define what is technically ... [Read more...]

An Rstudio Addin for Network Analysis and Visualization

January 25, 2019 | schochastics

The ggraph package provides a ggplot-like grammar for plotting graphs and as such you can produce very neat network visualizations. But as with ggplot, it takes a while to get used to the grammar. There are already a few amazing Rstudio Addins that assist you with ggplot (for example ggplotAssist ... [Read more...]

satRdays Newcastle 2019 Conference is Here!

January 25, 2019 | Theo Roe

We are pleased to announce the very first Satrday event in Newcastle upon Tyne (and England). satRdays Newcastle is a one-day, low-cost, community organised R conference in the heart of Newcastle City Centre. Where? The event will be held at Newcastle University. Getting to Newcastle is really easy Train: 90 minutes ...
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R Conference Costs v2.0

January 25, 2019 | Theo Roe

R conference Costs Last year we gave you a price break down of some of the most popular R conferences around the globe for 2017. We’re going to do it again for 2018. Remember, you can get up-to-date information on upcoming conferences via our GitHub page. It’s important to note ...
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Keeping up to date with R news

January 24, 2019 | Posts on Maëlle's R blog

I’ve now given my talk about “How to be a resilient R user” three times, at R-Ladies Strasbourg and R-Ladies Paris in person, and at R-Ladies San José via Google Hangouts. It was fun! I covered part of the content of that talk in a blog post about where ... [Read more...]

more concentration, everywhere

January 24, 2019 | xi'an

Although it may sound like an excessive notion of optimality, one can hope at obtaining an estimator δ of a unidimensional parameter θ that is always closer to θ that any other parameter. In distribution if not almost surely, meaning the cdf of (δ-θ) is steeper than for other estimators enjoying the same ...
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ELK+R Stack

January 24, 2019 | paoloeusebi

Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is becoming the bigger player in the technology for documents search in the noSQL space and is actually experiencing a great development phase (6 ...
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Zen and The Art of Competing Against MBA’s

January 24, 2019 | John

“I appreciate your ambition, but we’re looking for an MBA…” My senior manager smiled and indicated the topic was closed. Despite the fact I was effectively running our direct mail program in the absence of … The post Zen and The Art of Competing Against MBA’s appeared first on ... [Read more...]

Zen and The Art of Competing Against MBA’s

January 24, 2019 | John

“I appreciate your ambition, but we’re looking for an MBA…” My senior manager smiled and indicated the topic was closed. Despite the fact I was [...] The post Zen and The Art of Competing Against MBA’s appeared first on ProgrammingR. [Read more...]
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