January 2020

Automatic DAG learning – part 2

January 20, 2020 | R on Just be-cause

Intro We’ve seen on a previous post that one of the main differences between classic ML and Causal Inference is the additional step of using the correct adjustment set for the predictor features. In order to find the correct adjustment set we ne...
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Graph Theory 101 with corruption cases in Spain

January 20, 2020 | R on Coding Club UC3M

by María Medina Pérez According to CIS’ barometer, political corruption is the second biggest concern in Spain, only behind unemployment, and has been in this position since 2013, as we see Spanish news talking about open trials and new investigations on a regular basis. The European Commission estimates that ...
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unpack Your Values in R

January 20, 2020 | John Mount

I would like to introduce an exciting feature in the upcoming 1.9.6 version of the wrapr R package: value unpacking. The unpacking notation is made available if you install wrapr version 1.9.6 from Github: remotes::install_github("WinVector/wrapr") We will likely send this version to CRAN in a couple of weeks. ... [Read more...]

anytime 0.3.7

January 20, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

A fresh minor release of the anytime package is arriving on CRAN right now. This is the eighteenth release, and it comes roughly five months after the previous showing the relative feature-stability we have now. anytime is a very focused package aimi... [Read more...]

December 2019: “Top 40” New R Packages

January 19, 2020 | R Views

One hundred fifty-two packages made it to CRAN in December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Data climate v0.3.0: Provides access to meteorological and hydrological data from OGIMET, University of Wyoming - atmospheric vertical profiling ...
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RPushbullet 0.3.3

January 19, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

Release 0.3.3 of the RPushbullet package just got to CRAN. RPushbullet offers an interface to the neat Pushbullet service for inter-device messaging, communication, and more. It lets you easily send (programmatic) alerts like the one to the left to ... [Read more...]

How to Remove Outliers in R

January 19, 2020 | Syed

Statisticians often come across outliers when working with datasets and it is important to deal with them because of how significantly they can distort a statistical model. Your dataset may have values that are distinguishably … The post How to Remove Outliers in R appeared first on ProgrammingR. More like this: ...
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How to Remove Outliers in R

January 19, 2020 | John

Statisticians often come across outliers when working with datasets and it is important to deal with them because of how significantly they can distort a statistical model. Your dataset may have values that are distinguishably … The post How to Remove Outliers in R appeared first on ProgrammingR. [Read more...]

Geographic distance

January 18, 2020 | R on Dominic Royé

The first post of this year 2020, I will dedicate to a question that I was recently asked. The question was how to calculate the shortest distance between different points and how to know which is the closest point. When we work with spatial data in...
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Geographic distance

January 18, 2020 | R on Dominic Royé

The first post of this year 2020, I will dedicate to a question that I was recently asked. The question was how to calculate the shortest distance between different points and how to know which is the closest point. When we work with spatial data in R, currently the easiest thing ...
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What R you in python? (`R` vectors)

January 18, 2020 | R on notast

reticulate allows us to toggle between R and python in the same session, callling R objects when running python scripts and vice versa. When calling R data structures in python, the R structures are converted to the equivalent python structures where applicable. However, like translating English to Mandarin, translating R ... [Read more...]

Area under the precision-recall curve

January 17, 2020 | A.M. Barbosa

The AUC function, in the modEvA package, initially computed only the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Now, since modEvA version 1.7 (currently available on R-Forge), it also offers the option to compute the precision-recall curve, which may … Continue reading →
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Feller’s coin-tossing puzzle: tidy simulation in R

January 17, 2020 | David Robinson

Previously in this series: The “lost boarding pass” puzzle The “deadly board game” puzzle The “knight on an infinite chessboard” puzzle The “largest stock profit or loss” puzzle The “birthday paradox” puzzle I have an interest in probability puzzles and riddles, and especially in simulating them in R. I recently ... [Read more...]

Customising your Rprofile

January 17, 2020 | Colin Gillespie

What is an Rprofile Every time R starts, it runs through a couple of R scripts. One of these scripts is the .Rprofile. This allows users to customise their particular set-up. However, some care has to be taken, as if this script is broken, this can cause R to break. ...
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Introducing nse2r

January 16, 2020 | Rsquared Academy Blog - Explore Discover Learn

We are excited to announce the nse2r package. NSE (National Stock Exchange) is the leading stock exchange of India, located in the city of Mumbai. While users can manually download data from NSE through a browser, importing this data into R becomes cumbersome. The nse2r R package implements ...
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