Summary In this blog we explain most valuable evaluation plots to assess the business value of a predictive model. Since these visualisations are not included in most popular model building packages or modules in R and Python, we show how you can easily create these plots for your own predictive ... [Read more...]

Summary In this blog we explain most valuable evaluation plots to assess the business value of a predictive model. Since these visualisations are not included in most popular model building packages or modules in R and Python, we show how you can easily create these plots for your own predictive ... [Read more...]

Data security is paramount and encryptr was written to make this easier for non-experts. Columns of data can be encrypted with a couple of lines of R code, and single cells decrypted as required. But what was missing was an easy way to encrypt the file source of that data. ... [Read more...]

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In this post, we shall introduce CRAN checks in general and use the recent changes of the r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang CRAN platform as a case study of how R-hub can help you, package developers, handle CRAN checks and keep up with CRAN platforms. CRAN checks 101 All CRAN packages are R CMD ... [Read more...]

Greg Wilson is a data scientist and professional educator at RStudio. My previous column looked at a few new books about R. In this one, I’d like to explore a few books about programming that people coming from data science backgrounds may not have stumbled upon. The first is ... [Read more...]

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Motivation I initially made an close-access image for DigitalOcean because I wanted to spend my lectures and workshops giving useful examples and not solving software installation issues. Now you can use my RStudio image which available on DigitalOcean... [Read more...]

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Like most people you will have used a search engine lately, like Google. But have you ever thought about how it manages to give you the most fitting results? How does it order the results so that the best are on top? Read on to find out! The earliest search ... [Read more...]

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conditionz is a new (just on CRAN today) R package for controlling how many times conditions are thrown. This package arises from an annoyance in another set of packages I maintain: The brranching package uses the taxize package internally, calling it’s function taxize::tax_name(). The taxize::tax_name() ... [Read more...]

Last month we released a new version of pdftools and a new companion package qpdf for working with pdf files in R. This release introduces the ability to perform pdf transformations, such as splitting and combining pages from multiple files. Moreover, the pdf_data() function which was introduced in pdftools 2.0 ... [Read more...]

As the sakura bloomed in Tokyo, another TokyoR User Meetup was held, this time at SONY City! On April 13th useRs from all over Tokyo (and some even from further afield) flocked to Osaki, Tokyo for a special session focused on be... [Read more...]

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