June 2019

Many similar models – Part 1: How to make a function for model fitting

June 23, 2019 | Very statisticious on Very statisticious

I worked with several students over the last few months who were fitting many linear models, all with the same basic structure but different response variables. They were struggling to find an efficient way to do this in R while still taking the time to check model assumptions. A first ...

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MODIStsp v. 1.3.9 is out !

June 23, 2019 | Posts on Lorenzo Busetto Website & Blog

A new version of MODIStsp (1.3.9) is on CRAN as of today ! This version: Introduces support for the new MCD12Q2 v006 product and removes support for some v005 product no longer available (https://github.com/ropensci/MODIStsp/issues/170); Fixes a bug p... [Read more...]

My Free Online Tutorial on R

June 23, 2019 | matloff

I’m continuing to add more lessons to my free online R tutorial, 17 of them so far, adding more from time to time. Aimed specifically at nonprogrammers, though those with C or Python background should find it helpful too. Comments and suggestions welcome! Advertisements [Read more...]

Extracting the Data from Static Images of Graphs with magick

June 23, 2019 | Eric Hare

Prior to the era of reproducible research, it was quite common for published graphs, charts, and other figures to be released solely as static images such and PNGs or JPEGs. Often times this is not done with accompanying code, or with the plot data available as a separate download, making ...

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Exploratory data analysis with categorical data

June 23, 2019 | Posts on

It is a common task to find datasets which have different types of variables, and they could be numeric, time data, or even categorical. The inspectdf package offers a set of functions to analyze the behavior of this kind of data. First of all, we ha...

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Finding CRAN packages right from the R console

June 23, 2019 | Topics in R

A new version of my package packagefinder is available on CRAN. It has a lot of new features and comes with a YouTube tutorial. What is packagefinder? How does it benefit me? Currently, there are more than 14,000 R package contributions on CRAN p... [Read more...]

binb 0.0.4: Several nice improvements

June 23, 2019 | Thinking inside the box

The fourth release of the binb package just arrived on CRAN. binb regroups four rather nice themes for writing LaTeX Beamer presentations much more easily in in (R)Markdown. As a teaser, a quick demo combining all four themes follows; documentation a... [Read more...]

Earned Doctorates

June 23, 2019 | R on kieranhealy.org

PhDs awarded in selected disciplines, 2006-2016. Thierry Rossier asked me for the code to produce plots like the one above. The data come from the Survey of Earned Doctorates, a very useful resource for tracking trends in PhDs awarded in the United States. The plot is made with geom_line() ... [Read more...]

Shiny application (with modules) – Saving and Restoring from RDS

June 22, 2019 | Anindya Mozumdar

I am working on a Shiny application which allows the user to upload data, do some analysis and processing on each variable in the data, and finally use the processed variables to build a statistical model. As there may be hundreds of variables in the data, the user may want ... [Read more...]

GC6CQT9 Denken tut nicht weh / myślenie nie boli – 06

June 22, 2019 | densurekalkun

This puzzle cache is in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The description is in German and repeated in Polish. Annoyingly, the puzzle instructions are in an image, so you can’t copy and paste the text into translation software. I retyped the German text into Google Translate and got the gist of it. ... [Read more...]

Mapping Anthony Bourdain’s Travels

June 22, 2019 | JOURNEYOFANALYTICS

Anthony Bourdain was an amazing personality – chef, author, world traveler, TV showhost. I loved his shows as much for the exotic locations as for the yummilicious local cuisine. So I was delighted to find a dataset that included all travel location data, from all episodes of his 3 hit TV shows. ...

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How data.table’s fread can save you a lot of time and memory, and take input from shell commands

June 22, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction Recently I was involved in a task that included reading and writing quite large amounts of data, totaling more than 1 TB worth of csvs without the standard big data infrastructure. After trying multiple approaches, the one that made this possible was using data.table’s reading and writing facilities ...

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Stacked Waterfall Graphs in R

June 21, 2019 | exploRations in R

Intro In an earlier post I provided a template for creating a basic waterfall graph. Here I introduce a slightly more complex version with stacked bars over a time series. I use dplyr, ggplot2 and lubridate libraries. Stacked Waterfall Graphs This is a version of a waterfall graph I have ...

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Explaining Predictions: Interpretable models (logistic regression)

June 21, 2019 | R on notast

Introduction The rise of machine learning In this current 4th industrial revolution, data science has penetrated all industries and healthcare is no exception. There has been an exponential use of machine learning in clinical research in the past decade and it is expected to continue to grow at an even ... [Read more...]

tidyverse

June 21, 2019 | densurekalkun

The tidyverse collection of packages is a suite of packages that simplifies a huge number of the commonest tasks I do in R. It’s become indispensable for me, and I’ll make heavy use of it. I draw your attention to dplyr, one of the tidyverse packages. It provides ... [Read more...]

magrittr

June 21, 2019 | densurekalkun

The magrittr package is a great resource for making R more readable… and more writable. Here’s an example of hard-to-read code print(head(rev(toupper(letters)))) If you came across that in someone else’s code, you might gag. And rightly so. It takes a few moments to work ... [Read more...]

hello woRld

June 21, 2019 | densurekalkun

This blog is about the intersect between my two big passions: Geocaching and R programming. Geocaching is an international treasure hunt, where you seek containers hidden by other cachers, using your phone or a GPS receiver. R is a programming language which is commonly used in statistics-heavy academic and professional ... [Read more...]

More On Slopegraphs

June 20, 2019 | Posts on R Lover ! a programmer

About a week ago Bob Rudis created a nice blog post that I saw on my R Bloggers feed that simultaneously: Threw a bit of “shade” on the ToS for Axios (well done Bob) Showed how to use EtherCalc as a data entry tool And, most importantly to me, showed ...

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Hierarchical Clustering for Location based Strategy using R for E-Commerce

June 20, 2019 | Shubham Bansal

Hi Folks! This is my first blog and I am super excited to share with you how I used R Programming to work upon a location based strategy in my E commerce organization. Please check out r-bloggers.com for more exciting stuff on R Just a little brief about the ...

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Upcoming Talk: Canberra July 2019

June 19, 2019 | Blog on Credibly Curious

While visiting Canberra to present for the SSA R skills workshop with Damjan Vukcevic, I am going to stay in Canberra for a few days, visiting CSIRO. I will be presenting a talk there on Thursday 4th July on the brolgar package for explorin... [Read more...]

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June 2019

Many similar models – Part 1: How to make a function for model fitting

MODIStsp v. 1.3.9 is out !

My Free Online Tutorial on R

Extracting the Data from Static Images of Graphs with magick

Exploratory data analysis with categorical data

Finding CRAN packages right from the R console

binb 0.0.4: Several nice improvements

Earned Doctorates

Shiny application (with modules) – Saving and Restoring from RDS

GC6CQT9 Denken tut nicht weh / myślenie nie boli – 06

Mapping Anthony Bourdain’s Travels

How data.table’s fread can save you a lot of time and memory, and take input from shell commands

Stacked Waterfall Graphs in R

Explaining Predictions: Interpretable models (logistic regression)

tidyverse

magrittr

hello woRld

More On Slopegraphs

Hierarchical Clustering for Location based Strategy using R for E-Commerce

Upcoming Talk: Canberra July 2019

June 2019

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