’tis the season to be coding! As I’m sure you’ve all noticed (cough) I have been rather quiet on the blogging front lately because my leisure coding time has been consumed by the annual Advent of Code challenge. It would have been fun to use this to become ... [Read more...]

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Testing is a crucial component to any software package. Testing makes sure that your code does what you expect it to do; and importantly, makes it safer to make changes moving forward because a good test suite will tell you if a change has broken existing functionality. Our recent community ... [Read more...]

A while ago I was researching on creating a splash screen for a Shiny application. My gut feel was that there will readily be a package available for this activity. I was surprised to see that not much information is available based on a 10 minute Google search. The top StackOverflow ... [Read more...]

A new version (0.1.5) of the TSstudio package was pushed to CRAN last month. The release includes new functions as well as bug fixing, and update of the package license (modified from GPL-3 to MIT). New features train_model - a flexible framework ... [Read more...]

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One goal of game theory is to understand how effective cooperation can be sustained in relationships. You may have heard of Axelrod’s famous tournaments that studied how effective different submitted strategies are in sustaining cooperation in repeated Prisoners’ dilemma games. A related approach to understand the scope for cooperation ... [Read more...]

Partial Moments Equivalences Below are some basic equivalences demonstrating partial moments’ role as the elements of variance. Why is this relevant? The additional information generated from partial moments permits a level of analysis simply not possible with traditional summary statistics. There is further introductory material on partial moments and their ... [Read more...]

 Politics with a big data: data analysis in social research using R       20 -22 December 2019 Presidency University Department of Political Science, Presidency University In association with Association SNAP Invites you to a workshop on R Statistical software designed exclusively for social science researchers. The workshop will introduce basic statistical concepts and ... [Read more...]

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This is a re-post by the author from: https://www.bsetmet.com/index.php/2019/05/26/gist-rstudio-vsersions-ubuntu/ I got fed up with the manual process, so I started to automate the entire process Ubuntu in a bash script. This script should work for most Debian based distros. TLDR -__ Get to the ... [Read more...]

There seems to be some revolution going on in the R sphere… people seem to be jumping at what is commonly known as the tidyverse, a collection of packages developed and maintained by the Chief Scientist of RStudio, Hadley Wickham. In this post, I explain what the tidyverse is and ... [Read more...]

A maintenance release 0.9.12 of the RcppClassic package arrived earlier today on CRAN. This package provides a maintained version of the otherwise deprecated initial Rcpp API which no new projects should use as the normal Rcpp API is so much better. ... [Read more...]

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Among DESCRIPTION usual fields is the free-text URL field where package authors can store various links: to the development website, docs, upstream tool, etc. In this post, we shall explain why storing URLs in DESCRIPTION is important, where else you should add URLs and what kind of URLs are stored ... [Read more...]

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Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2019† 2020† latest latest 2019† latest United States +2.1 Q3‡ +2.1 +2.4 +2.1 -0.8 Nov‡ +2.3 Dec‡ +1.8 +3.5 Dec‡ China +0.1 Q3‡ +0.2 +6.1 +5.8 +5.4 Nov§ +4.5 Dec‡ +2.3 +3.6 Q3‡ Japan +1.9 Q3‡ +1.8 +0.9 +0.5 -6.1 Nov‡ +0.5 Nov‡ +1.0 +2.2 Nov‡ Britain +1.1 Q3‡ +1.7 +1.2 +1.4 -1.3 Oct‡ +1.4 Dec‡ +1.8 +3.7 Sep‡ Canada +1.7 Q3‡ +1.3 +1.5 +1.8 -2.4 Oct‡ +2.2 Nov‡ +2.0 +5.6 Dec‡ ... [Read more...]

Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2019† 2020† latest latest 2019† latest United States +2.1 Q3 +2.1 +2.4 +2.1 -1.1 Oct +1.8 Oct +1.8 +3.6 Oct China +0.1 Q3 +0.2 +6.1 +5.8 +5.4 Nov‡ +3.8 Oct +2.3 +3.6 Q3 Japan +1.4 Q3 +0.2 +0.9 +0.5 -6.0 Oct +0.2 Oct +1.0 +2.4 Oct Britain +1.0 Q3 +1.2 +1.2 +1.4 -1.4 Sep +1.5 Oct +1.8 +3.8 Aug Canada +1.7 Q3 +1.3 +1.5 +1.8 -1.8 Sep +1.9 Oct +2.0 +5.5 Oct ... [Read more...]

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