April 2019

Face Recognition with OpenCV

April 7, 2019 | Arpit Dwivedi

CategoriesProgramming Tags Machine Learning OpenCV R Programming OpenCV is a library of programming functions mainly aimed at real-time computer vision. Originally developed by Intel, it was later supported by Willow Garage then Itseez. The library is cross-platform and free for use under the open-source BSD license. Before starting you can ... [Read more...]

rhub 1.1.1 is on CRAN!

April 7, 2019 | R-hub blog

Version 1.1.1 of the rhub package has been released on CRAN! rhub allows to check packages on R-hub package builder, or on local Docker images, without leaving R. Get rhub’s latest version from a safe CRAN mirror near you: install.packages("rhub") This release, compared to rhub 1.0.2, should improve user ... [Read more...]

On Meeting Data Journalists

April 7, 2019 | R Views

“I’d rather do data than date”. I overheard this while eavesdropping on a conversation among three female data journalists while waiting for an elevator at the IRE-CAR (Investigative Reporters and Editors - Computer-Assisted Reporting) conference last month. I would like to think the remark was overloaded with hyperbole, but ...
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A Limited-but-Functional Couchbase Free Text Search & Retrieval Un-package; or, “How I Abused Couchbase & R to Perform Bulk IP Whois Full-text Searches” (a Cobbler’s Tale)

April 7, 2019 | hrbrmstr

Researching “the internet” (i.e. $DAYJOB) means having to deal with a ton of “unique” (I’m being kind) data formats. This is ultimately a tale of how I performed full-text searches across one of them. It all started off innocently enough. This past week I need to be able ...
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How many downloads does my package have?

April 7, 2019 | Frederico Mestre

Everyone that authors an R package is curious about how many users download it. As far as I know there’s still no way to get information on all the downloads, from all the R mirrors. Here I’m using package cranlogs, which only gives information on the downloads from ...
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Writing R documentation, simplified

April 7, 2019 | Dr. Jack Davis

A massive part of statistical software development is the documentation. Good documentation is more than just a help file, it serves as commentary on how the software works, includes use cases, and cites any relevant sources. One cool thing about R documentation is that it uses a system that allows ...
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How to install R on Mac, Ubuntu and Windows

April 6, 2019 | Pachá

Original post published outside my blog on May 17th, 2018. I decided to edit the videos with kdenlive again and create both a new post and video. Motivation This is a beginner guide that is designed to save yourself a headache and valuable time if you decide to install R yourself. ...
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How to install R on Mac, Ubuntu and Windows

April 6, 2019 | Pachá

Original post published outside my blog on May 17th, 2018. I decided to edit the videos with kdenlive again and create both a new post and video. Motivation This is a beginner guide that is designed to save yourself a headache and valuable time if you decide to install R yourself. ...
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How to install R on Mac, Ubuntu and Windows

April 6, 2019 | Pachá

Original post published outside my blog on May 17th, 2018. I decided to edit the videos with kdenlive again and create both a new post and video. Motivation This is a beginner guide that is designed to save yourself a headache and valuable time if you decide to install R yourself. ...
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Not Always C++’s Fault

April 6, 2019 | John Mount

From the recent developer.r-project.org “Staged Install” article: Incidentally, there were just two distinct (very long) lists of methods in the warnings across all installed packages in my run, but repeated for many packages. It turned out that they were lists of exported methods from dplyr and rlang packages. ... [Read more...]

Rborist 0-1.17 on CRAN

April 6, 2019 | Mark Seligman

Version 0-1.17 of the Rborist package is building successfully on CRAN. This is the last of the 0-1 series; future versions will instead employ a more conventional API numbering scheme. Two new command-line options have been introduced. Option nThread permits limiting the number of OpenMP threads employed in parallel regions ... [Read more...]

Pareto-NBD Customer Lifetime Value

April 5, 2019 | Brian Callander

Pareto-NBD Customer Lifetime Value Posted on 6 April, 2019 by Brian Tags: customer lifetime value, pareto-nbd, smc Category: customer_lifetime_value Suppose you have a bunch of customers who make repeat purchases - some more frequenty, some less. There are a few things you might like to know about these customers, such ... [Read more...]
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