May 2019

Royal Society of Biology: Introduction to Reproducible Analyses in R

May 23, 2019 | melliferrari

Learn to experiment with R to make analyses and figures more reproducible If you’re in the UK and not too far from York you might be interested in a Royal Society of Biology course which forms part of the Industry Skills Certificate. More details at this link Introduction to ...

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Spotlight on: Julia Silge, Stack Overflow

May 23, 2019 | Laura Swales

Julia Silge is joining us as one of our keynote speakers at EARL London 2019. We can’t wait to hear Julia’s full keynote, but until then she kindly answered a few questions. Julia shared with us what we can expect from her address – which will focus on how Stack ... [Read more...]

Bayesian estimation of fatality rates and accidents involving cyclists on Queensland roads

May 23, 2019 | Daniel Oehm

In my previous post I built a Shiny app mapping accidents on Queensland roads which was great at showing the […] The post Bayesian estimation of fatality rates and accidents involving cyclists on Queensland roads appeared first on Daniel Oehm | Gradient Descending. [Read more...]

Save a flextable as an image

May 22, 2019 | ArData

flextable 0.5.4 is now on CRAN. It contains a new output option that some users were asking: image output. You can now save a flextable as a png or pdf file with function save_as_image. The solution was existing since a long time but was buried in a stackoverflow question ...

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Comparing Frequentist, Bayesian and Simulation methods and conclusions

May 22, 2019 | Posts on R Lover ! a programmer

So, a programmer, a frequentist, and a bayesian walk into a bar. No this post isn’t really on the path to some politically incorrect stereotypical humor. Jut trying to make it fun and catch your attention. As the title implies this post is really about applying the differing viewpoints ...

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Analysing the HIV pandemic, Part 4: Classification of lab samples

May 22, 2019 | R Views

Andrie de Vries is the author of “R for Dummies” and a Solutions Engineer at RStudio Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa In this post we complete ...

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MRAN snapshots, and you

May 22, 2019 | David Smith

For almost five years, the entire CRAN repository of R packages has been archived on a daily basis at MRAN. If you use CRAN snapshots from MRAN, we'd love to hear how you use them in this survey. If you're not familiar with the concept, or just want to learn ...

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Deep (learning) like Jacques Cousteau – Part 5 – Vector addition

May 22, 2019 | Hello, world! My name is Justin.

(TL;DR: You can add vectors that have the same number of elements.)

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New Color Palette for R

May 22, 2019 |

As I was preparing some graphics for a presentation recently, I started digging into some of the different color palette options. My motivation was entirely about creating graphics that weren't too visually overwhelming, which I found the default "rain... [Read more...]

Finished Data Science Specialization of Coursera

May 22, 2019 | John

In 2018 I restarted with the Johns Hopkins University Data Science Specialization of Coursera with certificates. In May 2019 I finished the 10 course program that covers the Data Science process from data collection to the production of Data Science products and all done in R. The 10 cources are: Course 1: The Data Scientist’... [Read more...]

Easy quick PCA analysis in R

May 22, 2019 | chris2016

Principal component analysis (PCA) is very useful for doing some basic quality control (e.g. looking for batch effects) and assessment of how the data is distributed (e.g. finding outliers). A straightforward way is to make your own wrapper function for prcomp and ggplot2, another way is to use ...

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Create a CLI for R with npm

May 21, 2019 | Colin Fay

How to build a CLI for R, with npm. Background This blog post was triggered by a discussion on Twitter with Martin Skarzynski, who was looking for a way to build a CLI that launches an RScript. Here’s a way to do this using npm. Please note that t... [Read more...]

Bug when Creating Reference Maps with Choroplethr

May 21, 2019 | Ari Lamstein

Last week the Census Bureau published a free course I created on using Choroplethr to map US Census Data. Unfortunately, a few people have reported problems when following one of the examples in the course. This post describes that issues and provides instructions for working around it. Where does the ...

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Timing hash functions with the bench package

May 21, 2019 | Colin Gillespie

This blog post has two goals Investigate the bench package for timing R functions Consequently explore the different algorithms in the digest package using bench What is digest? The digest package provides a hash function to summarise R objects. Standard hashes are available, such as md5, crc32, sha-1, and sha-256. ...

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Introductory course on Bayesian data analysis for beginners with Rasmus Bååth

May 21, 2019 | Robert

On 25 November 2019, BayesCamp will be hosting a one-day course called Get up and running with Bayesian data analysis, … More [Read more...]

Add Dressbarn to the Continued Retailpocalypse

May 21, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I’ve talked about the retailpocalypse before and this morning I was greeted with the news about Dressbarn closing all 650 stores as I fired up a browser. I tweeted some pix and data but not everyone is on Twitter so I’m just posting a blog-blurb here with the code ...

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rsync as R package

May 21, 2019 | INWT-Blog-RBloggers

In this article we present our R package rsync, which serves as an interface between R and the popular Linux command line tool rsync. Originally rsync is an open source tool for efficiently synchronizing files. Published by Paul Mackerras and Andrew Tridgell under the GNU General Public License, it allows ...

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Learning R: The Ultimate Introduction (incl. Machine Learning!)

May 21, 2019 | Learning Machines

There are a million reasons to learn R (see e.g. Why R for data science – and not Python?), but where to start? I present to you the ultimate introduction to bring you up to speed! So read on… I call it ultimate because it is the essence of many ... [Read more...]

Modern Data Science with R: A review

May 20, 2019 | Murtaza Haider

Some say data is the new oil. Others equate its worth to water. And then there are those who believe that data scientists will be (in fact, they already are) one of the most sought-after workers in knowledge economies.Millions of data-centric jobs requ...