January 2019

Fully General Record Transforms with cdata

January 20, 2019 | John Mount

One of the design goals of the cdata R package is that very powerful and arbitrary record transforms should be convenient and take only one or two steps. In fact it is the goal to take just about any record shape to any other in two steps: first convert to ... [Read more...]

How I set up my first website (again)

January 19, 2019 | R on notast

Rebirth A week ago, I created my first website using Hugo template, Tufte. Initially, I was eagar to write my posts using Tufte style but I had severeal difficulties with the template. Firstly, I could not display full RSS feeds. Having a website with full RSS feeds is a prerequisite ... [Read more...]

GeoPAT2: Entropy calculations for local landscapes

January 19, 2019 | Rstats on Jakub Nowosad's website

Introduction GeoPAT 2 is an open-source software written in C and dedicated to pattern-based spatial and temporal analysis. Four main types of analysis available in GeoPAT 2 are (i) search, (ii) change detection, (iii) segmentation, and (iv) clustering. However, additional applications are also possible, including extracting information about spatial patterns. Global landscape ...
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A Newbie’s Guide to Making A Pull Request (for an R package)

January 19, 2019 | r on Tony ElHabr

I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the {tidyverse} Developer Day the day after rstudio::conf2019 officially wrapped up. 1One of the objectives of the event was to encourage open-source contributor newbies (like me ????) to gain some experience, namely through submitting pull requests to address issues with {tidyverse} packages. ...
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How to authenticate using OAuth2 through R

January 19, 2019 | Roman Luštrik

If you need to have authentication of users in your application, you could invent the proverbial warm water by implementing register, login, logout and other features. Or, you could outsource part of that functionality to well established establishments such as Google, Facebook, Github and other. In addition to knowing the ... [Read more...]

How to authenticate using OAuth2 through R

January 19, 2019 | Roman Luštrik

If you need to have authentication of users in your application, you could invent the proverbial warm water by implementing register, login, logout and other features. Or, you could outsource part of that functionality to well established establishments such as Google, Facebook, Github and other. In addition to knowing the ... [Read more...]

simmer 4.2.1

January 19, 2019 | Iñaki Úcar

The 4.2.1 release of simmer, the Discrete-Event Simulator for R, is on CRAN with quite interesting new features and fixes. As discussed in the mailing list, there is a way to handle the specific case in which an arrival is rejected because a queue is full: library(simmer) reject % log_("kicked ... [Read more...]

Factor Analysis in R: Measuring Consumer Involvement

January 18, 2019 | Peter Prevos

The first step for anyone who wants to promote or sell something is to understand the psychology of potential customers. Getting into the minds of consumers is often problematic because measuring psychological traits is a complex task. Consumer involvement is a measure of the attitude people have towards a product ...
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New R package: load and chart oceanic storms

January 18, 2019 | Blog - BS

Mapping historical storms data is now a little bit easier. Off the back of this blog, I have authored an R package (available at basilesimon/noaastorms) that downloads, cleans and parses NOAA IBtrack data for you. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases datasets known as International Best Track Archive ...
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Rcrastinate is moving.

January 18, 2019 | Sascha W.

Hi all, this is just an announcement.I am moving Rcrastinate to a blogdown-based solution and am therefore leaving blogger.com. If you're interested in the new setup and how you could do the same yourself, please check out the all shiny and new Rcrasti...
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