For a lonely soul, you’re having such a nice time (Nothing in my way, Keane) In my previous post, I created the P2 Penrose tessellation according to the instructions of this post. Now it’s time to create the P3 tessellation following the same technique I described already. This ...

I’ve been an R user for a few years now and the data.table package has been my staple package for most of it. In this post I wanted to talk about why almost every script and RMarkdown report I write start with: library(data.table) My memory issues ...

I recently had a question from a colleague, and thanks to the awesome recent work on rlang this is now super straightforward. I thought I’d share a bit about that. I still remember when I had just learnt how to write a function in R, and I wanted to ...

I’ve been an R user for a few years now and the data.table package has been my staple package for most of it. In this post I wanted to talk about why almost every script and RMarkdown report I write start with:

library(data.table)

My memory issues I started ...

Organic Development of R Artefacts In a previous post, I alluded to the point that one of the great strengths (but also one of the challenges) of R is the organic way in which R ‘artefacts’ are developed.1 One characteristic of this “organic d...

Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your editor (i.e., RStudio). Category Basic Statistics Tags Linear Regression R Programming Tips & Tricks Integration is the process of evaluating integrals. It is one of the two central ideas of calculus and is the inverse of the other central ...

With Alfred Galichon and Lucas Vernet, we recently uploaded a paper entitled optimal transport on large networks on arxiv. This article presents a set of tools for the modeling of a spatial allocation problem in a large geographic market and gives examples of applications. In our settings, the market is ...

Motivation There are several wonderful tools for retrieving information about R packages, some of which are listed below: cranlogs, dlstats and packageRank for R package download stats pkgsearch and packagefinder for searching CRAN R packages crandb provides API for programatically accessing meta-data cchecks for CRAN check results We have used ...

Motivation There are several wonderful tools for retrieving information about R packages, some of which are listed below: cranlogs, dlstats and packageRank for R package download stats pkgsearch and packagefinder for searching CRAN R packages crandb provides API for programatically accessing meta-data cchecks for CRAN check results We have used ...

As the monsoon rains fall, another TokyoR User Meetup! On June 29th, useRs from all over Tokyo flocked to Hanzomon, Tokyo for another jam-packed session of #rstats hosted by Infocom. In line with my previous round up posts: ...