A new release of our linl package for writing LaTeX letters with (R)markdown just arrived on CRAN. linl makes it easy to write letters in markdown, with some extra bells and whistles thanks to some cleverness chiefly by Aaron. This version now suppor...

This week, I will analyze Car Fuel Economy dataset from TidyTuesday. What is TidyTuesday? TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project in R organized by the R for Data Science community. It is a great way of improving your Data wrangling and visualization techniques, sharing and learning from others. You ...

My local authority recently decided to publish all spending over £500 in an effort to be more transparent. Here’s a post taking an overview of what they’ve published. I’ve used R for the… Continue reading →

TL;DR Describes the best practices for setting automated test architecture for Shiny apps. Automate and test early and often with unit tests, user interface tests, and performance tests. Best Practices for Testing Your Shiny App Even your best apps will break down at some point during development or during ...

Until August 2019, all Sentinel-2 satellite data could be directly downloaded from the ESA Data Hub, both through the interactive Open Hub or using an API interface. Recently this policy was changed: typically, only the most recent products are available for direct download, while the oldest ones (level 2A archives older ...

DBnomics : the world’s economic database Explore all the economic data from different providers (national and international statistical institutes, central banks, etc.), for free, following the link db.nomics.world. You can also retrieve all the economic data through the rdbnomics package here. This blog post describes the different ways ...

DBnomics : the world’s economic database Explore all the economic data from different providers (national and international statistical institutes, central banks, etc.), for free, following the link db.nomics.world. You can also retrieve all the economic data through the rdbnomics package here. This blog post describes the different ways ...

Introduction Since the 2016 election, inland U.S. Border security has been the huge topic. The construction for the new border wall has started and the tension between Mexico and U.S. has intensified along with it. Many people predicted not only the decrease in number of illegal border entry but ...

Expectdata is an R package that makes it easy to test assumptions about a data frame before conducting analyses. Below is a concise tour of some of the data assumptions expectdata can test for you. For example, Note: assertr is an ropensci project t...

Inspired by recent headlines like “Fear Overtakes Greed in IPO Market after WeWork Debacle” and “This Year’s IPO Class is Least Profitable since the Tech Bubble”, today we’ll explore historical IPO data, and next time we’ll look at the the performance of IPO-driven portfolios constructed during the ...

Bootstrapping time series? It is meant in a way that we generate multiple new training data for statistical forecasting methods like ARIMA or triple exponential smoothing (Holt-Winters method etc.) to improve forecasting accuracy. It is called bootstra...

In early September, the version 2.0.0 of rmangal was approved by rOpenSci, four weeks later it made it to CRAN. Following-up on our experience we detail below the reasons why we wrote rmangal, why we submitted our package to rOpenSci and how the peer review improved our package. Mangal, a database ...