September 2020

Why R? 2020 Keynotes

September 22, 2020 | Marcin Kosiński

Why R 2020 Keynotes sessions are close! Check out below posts to find out dates and descriptions of keynote talks for 2020.whyr.pl. Why R? 2020 Keynotes Why R? 2020 Keynotes Julia Silge - Wednesday 5pm UTC (2020-09-23) Riinu Pius - Saturday 9... [Read more...]

What is new in fairmodels?

September 22, 2020 | Jakub Wiśniewski

Version 0.2.2 is out and it has big changes! TL;DR Some new functionalities were added in R package fairmodels which is available on CRAN. In this blog, I will cover them in depth. The biggest changes concerned the fairness_check() function, parity_loss, and the addition of a new plot (...
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August 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

September 21, 2020 | R Views

One hundred forty-six new packages stuck to CRAN in August. Below, are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Insurance, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities and Visualization. Computational Methods dpseg v0.1.1: Implements an algorithm for piecewise linear segmentation of ordered data by a dynamic ... [Read more...]

Exploring 30 years of local CT weather history with R

September 21, 2020 | R on Redwall Analytics

# Libraries
packages <- 
  c("data.table",
    "ggplot2",
    "stringr",
    "skimr",
    "janitor",
    "glue"
    )

if (length(setdiff(packages,rownames(installed.packages()))) > 0) {
  install.packages(setdiff(packages, rownames(installed.packages())))  
}

invisible(lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE))

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  comment = NA,
  fig.width = 12,
  fig.height = 8,
  out.width = '100%',
  cache = TRUE
)
EPA AirData Air Quality Monitors Introduction As our journey with open source software continues, there is a growing list of things we have tried, but were unable to or took too long to figure out, so moved on. Sometimes its a blog or twitter post, others a new package ...
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Last Seats for Why R? 2020 Workshops

September 21, 2020 | Marcin Kosiński

Why R? 2020 conference 2020.whyr.pl is happening this week. There are still some last seats for workshops held on Friday Sept 25th/ Register 2020.whyr.pl/register/ Registration for workshops started 2020-09-01. Workshops take place 2020-09-25. They ... [Read more...]

Double dispatch in R: S4 vs vctrs

September 20, 2020 | A Hugo website

Why do we may need double dispatch? In most cases, when writing R scripts or even creating R packages, it is enough to use standard functions or S3 methods. However, there is one important field that forces us to consider double dispatch question: arit... [Read more...]
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