October 2020

How to carry column metadata in pivot_longer

October 22, 2020 | Nicholas Carruthers

Are you interested in guest posting? Publish at DataScience+ via your RStudio editor. Category Data Management Tags Data Manipulation R Programming tidyverse Tips & Tricks Pivoting data can be a pain point in bioinformatics workflows. Lots of bioinformatics software are tied to the wide format with data spread out among multiple ...
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Sept 2020: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

October 22, 2020 | R Views

Two hundred thirty-six new packages made it to CRAN in September. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities and Visualization. The large number of packages and, in my opinion, the high percentage of high quality work ...
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parking riddle

October 22, 2020 | xi'an

The Riddler of this week had a quick riddle: if one does want to avoid parallel parking a car over a six spot street, either the first spot is available or two consecutive spots are free. What is the probability this happens with 4 other cars already parked (at random)? While ...
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Haskell is fast

October 21, 2020 | Stéphane Laurent

Updated title: Haskell is fast, but Julia is faster (see updates at the end). My R package ‘HypergeoMat’ provides a Rcpp implementation of Koev & Edelman’s algorithm for the eval... [Read more...]

Upcoming workshop: From Excel to R

October 21, 2020 | Mirai Solutions

Discover how to use R to break free from Excel’s limitations at Mirai’s From Excel to R workshop. Excel’s lengthy formulas and complex macros, files that take forever to open and crash as frequently as you try to update them, major mistakes due to a... [Read more...]

eXplainable AI + Shiny = xai2shiny

October 21, 2020 | Adam Rydelek

xai2shiny is a new tool for lightning-quick deployment of machine learning models and their explorations using Shiny.By Anna KozakThe explainability of machine learning models has already proven to be an essential part of building a successful model. T...
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How to Automate PDF Reporting with R

October 20, 2020 | Business Science

This article is part of a R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to do common R coding tasks. Let’s learn how to automate PDFs with R. Get the Code: GitHub Link Video Tutorial: YouTube Tutorial (Click im...
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Leading Causes of Mortality by U.S. County

October 20, 2020 | Tyrone Wilkinson

LinkedIn |  GitHub |  Email | Data Venit Mors Velocitor Why would it be helpful to know the leading causes of mortality of a given population at a granular level and how they have been trending? Well, does it come into play when considering places to live or travel? Would having a large ...
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