April 2020

prrd 0.0.3: More improvements

April 19, 2020 | Thinking inside the box

Back in early 2018, the prrd package was introduced as release 0.0.1, uploaded to CRAN, and updated once as release 0.0.2. I have used it extensively for every CRAN release of Rcpp, RcppArmadillo, RcppEigen, BH, and possibly others. The idea of prrd ...

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KNN With Pokemon

April 18, 2020 | Tommy Teaches ML

This analysis introduces the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) machine learning algorithm using the familiar Pokemon dataset. By the end of this blog post you should have an understanding of the following: What the KNN machine learning algorithm is How to program the algorithm in R A bit more about Pokemon If ...

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COVID-19 Canada Data Explorer Tool

April 18, 2020 | Data Enthusiast's Blog

In the times of pandemic, the data community can help in many ways, including by developing instruments to track and break down the data on the spread of the dreaded coronavirus disease. The COVID-19 Canada Data Explorer app was built with R, including Shiny and Leaflet, to process the official ...

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How to make Powepoint Slides PPT using RStudio in 2020

April 18, 2020 | AbdulMajedRaja RS

The reason I wanted to make this short tutorial is because there are a lot of old tutorial available on Internet to help you make a powerpoint using R. But some time back RStudio made this new option available that makes it extremely easy and simple...

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nimbleEcology: custom NIMBLE distributions for ecologists

April 18, 2020 | Chris Paciorek

Prepared by Ben Goldstein. What is nimbleEcology? nimbleEcology is an auxiliary nimble package for ecologists. nimbleEcology contains a set of distributions corresponding to some common ecological models. When the package is loaded, these distributions are registered to NIMBLE and can be used directly in models. nimbleEcology contains distributions often used ...

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P is for percent

April 18, 2020 | Unknown

We've used ggplots throughout this blog series, but today, I want to introduce another package that helps you customize scales on your ggplots - the scales package. I use this package most frequently to format scales as percent. There aren't a lot of g...

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Automating R package checks across platforms with GitHub Actions and Docker in a portable way

April 18, 2020 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction Automating the execution, testing and deployment of R code is a powerful tool to ensure the reproducibility, quality and overall robustness of the code that we are building. A relatively recent feature in GitHub - GitHub actions - allows us to do just that without using additional tools such ...

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How to Impute Missing Values in R

April 18, 2020 | George Pipis

In the real data world, it is quite common to deal with Missing Values (known as NAs). Sometimes, there is ... Read moreHow to Impute Missing Values in R [Read more...]

COVID-19 Canada Data Explorer

April 17, 2020 | Petr Baranovskiy

An interactive dashboard to explore the Government of Canada's official statistics on the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Built with R Shiny, Leaflet, and plotly. Auto-updated every six hours.

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A new data contest at e-Rum2020: CovidR

April 17, 2020 | Riccardo Rossi

After going virtual eRum2020 launches the CovidR contest, a data contest of R contributions around the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic, and an online pre-conference event. The post A new data contest at e-Rum2020: CovidR appeared first on MilanoR. [Read more...]

New Course: Introduction to Machine Learning in R

April 17, 2020 | Charlie Custer

If your goal is to work as a data scientist, machine learning skills are critical. Our new interactive R machine learning course will get you started on the right path! The post New Course: Introduction to Machine Learning in R appeared first on Dataquest.

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Pragmatic prediction intervals from a quasi-likelihood GLM by @ellis2013nz

April 17, 2020 | free range statistics - R

Today’s blog comes with two lessons: a statistical one, and one on troubleshooting. Rubber-duck debugging Troubleshooting lesson first. The problem described below has been causing me grief for several days. I have an important and time-critical us... [Read more...]

O is for order_by

April 17, 2020 | Unknown

This will be a quick post on another tidyverse function, order_by. I'll admit, I don't use this one as often as arrange. It can be useful, though, if you don't want to permanently change the order of your dataset but want to use functions that require ...

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Automating the TestHarness

April 17, 2020 | Akhila Chowdary Kolla

RcppDeepState testharness for binsegRcpp package using RInisde In this blog, I’ll be explaining the process of automating the testharness and integrating Rcpp with deepstate. This blog is a continuation of my previous blog explaining the idea of worki... [Read more...]

RStudio and COVID-19

April 16, 2020 | RStudio | Open source & professional software for data science teams on RStudio

As we’re all aware, the impact of the current global pandemic has been significant. We know that many in the R community are involved in the response, and we want to help out where we can. shinyapps.io If you are using R and Shiny to analyse or visuali... [Read more...]

A Comprehensive Introduction to Handling Date & Time in R

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

In this tutorial, we will learn to handle date & time in R. We will start off by learning how to get current date & time before moving on to understand how R handles date/time internally and the different classes such as Date & POSIXct/lt. We will spend some time exploring ...

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Update on GetDFPData tables — 2019’s DFP and FRE data

April 16, 2020 | R on msperlin

After battling B3’s website for days, I finally managed to gather a master table for all corporate data. I’m happy to report that the 2019’s data is now included in GetDFPData, the CRAN package and shiny interface. This includes new financial statements and company’s FRE data. I ... [Read more...]

2 Months in 2 Minutes – rOpenSci News, April 2020

April 16, 2020 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

rOpenSci HQ The recording, collaborative notes and links to community discussion and resources are up for our latest Community Call on Maintaining an R package. Panel moderated by Julia Silge included Elin Waring, Erin Grand, Leonardo Collado-Torres, and Scott Chamberlain. Software Peer Review 1 staff-contributed package passed software peer review. parzer ... [Read more...]