December 2019

How to import an Excel file in RStudio

December 17, 2019 | R on Stats and R

Introduction Transform an Excel file to a CSV file R working directory Get working directory Set working directory User-friendly method Via the console Via the text editor Import your dataset User-friendly way Via the text editor Import SPSS (.sav) files Introduction As we have seen in this article on how ...
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BH 1.72.0-2 on CRAN

December 17, 2019 | Thinking inside the box

Yesterday’s release of BH 1.72.0-1 was so much fun we decided to do it again :) More seriously, and as mentioned, we have to do some minor adjustments as required by CRAN. One is to ensure all filenames fit with their full paths into a shorter lim...
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Painting Santa with Letters

December 17, 2019 | Learning Machines

After my little rant (which went viral!) about the tidyverse from last week, we are going to do a little fun project in the 50’th ???? post of this blog: ASCII Art! If you want to have some fun by painting with letters (i.e. ASCII characters) in R and get ... [Read more...]

How to install R and RStudio?

December 16, 2019 | R on Stats and R

What is R and RStudio? R RStudio The main components of RStudio Examples of code Calculator Comments Store and print values Vectors Matrices Generate random values Plot What is R and RStudio? R The statistical program R is nothing more than...
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Shiny Apps: Development and Deployment

December 16, 2019 | R on Methods Bites

Shiny Apps allow developers and researchers to easily build interactive web applications within the environment of the statistical software R. Using these apps, R users can interactively communicate their work to a broader audience. In this Method Bites Tutorial, Konstantin Gavras and Nick Baumann present a comprehensive recap of Konstantin ... [Read more...]

How to install R and RStudio?

December 16, 2019 | R on Stats and R

What is R and RStudio? R RStudio The main components of RStudio Examples of code Calculator Comments Store and print values Vectors Matrices Generate random values Plot What is R and RStudio? R R is nothing more than a programming language. At the time of writing, this language is (one ...
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Shiny Apps: Development and Deployment

December 16, 2019 | R on Methods Bites

Shiny Apps allow developers and researchers to easily build interactive web applications within the environment of the statistical software R. Using these apps, R users can interactively communicate their work to a broader audience. In this Method Bites Tutorial, Konstantin Gavras and Nick Baumann present a comprehensive recap of Konstantin ... [Read more...]

Herds of statistical models

December 16, 2019 | R on Coding Club UC3M

by Carlos J. Gil Bellosta Big datasets found in statistical practice often have a rich structure. Most traditional methods, including their modern counterparts, fail to efficiently use the information contained in them. Here we propose and discuss an alternative modelling strategy based on herds of simple models. Big Data: How ...
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Beautiful paper on HMMs and derivatives

December 16, 2019 | Bob Carpenter

I’ve been talking to Michael Betancourt and Charles Margossian about implementing analytic derivatives for HMMs in Stan to reduce memory overhead and increase speed. For now, one has to implement the forward algorithm in the Stan program and let Stan autodiff through it. I worked out the adjoint method (... [Read more...]

validate 0.9.3 is on CRAN

December 16, 2019 | mark

CRAN just accepted the latest version of our R package validate. The validate package provides an infrastructure to perform any data quality check in a flexible and extensible way. This is a minor update with the following new features: New … Continue reading → [Read more...]
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