When you change the background colors in ggplot, it will be more visually pleasing and attract more attention than the default ones. p + theme(panel.background = element_rect(fill = 'white', color = 'blue'), panel.grid.major = element_line(color = ...

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The tsbox package provides a set of tools that are agnostic towards existing time series classes. The tools also allow you to handle time series as plain data frames, thus making it easy to deal with time series in a dplyr or data.table workflow.

Shiny Templates from Appsilon R is a versatile language for data science and Shiny is an R package for developing interactive web applications that improve data storytelling. R in combination with the right Shiny application can convert a backbench data science project into a massive success. However, even experienced R ...

When developing credit risk scorecards, it is generally a good idea to discretise (bin) numeric variables in a manner that ensures monotonically increasing or decreasing event rates as the variable increases or decreases. While discretising individual variables adds stability to the model, monotonic bins ensure that the model output is ...

In a previous post I documented a new feature in {emayili}, the ability to render Plain Markdown directly into the body of an email message. Today I’m announcing the release of a new minor version, 0.5.0, in which {emayili} is now able to render R Markdown into an email. This ...

Many of us have become addicted to The NY Times COVID maps — maps of US state or county level data colored by cases, vaccinations, per capita infections, etc. While recreating maps like these in R is possible, it is disappointingly difficult. The just released MazamaSpatialPlots R package takes a first ...

Bilikisu Aderinto, Founder/Organizer of the Abuja R User Group and R-Ladies Abuja, talks about the lack of R User groups in her area, and her desire to start one, leading... The post Creating Successful R User Groups in Abuja, Nigeria appeared first on R Consortium.

It is all about measuring time using useless clocks. Script takes a system time and displays any given clock in a rather “static” way. You can choose between analog, small digital and big digital clock. And when playing with the…Read more ›

How to Identify Outliers, The Grubbs’ Technique is a statistical test that may be used to detect outliers in a dataset. A dataset should be generally normally distributed and have at least 7 observations to use this test. This article show...

Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash RStudio has worked with hundreds of different data science teams, and we’ve seen three key strategies that help maximize their productivity and impact: Adopting open source as the core of their work Leadi...