R Consortium recently caught up with Emmanuel Olamijuwon and Nontsikelelo Shongwe, organizers of the Eswatini R Users Group (Twitter: EswatiniUseR). They discussed how the R user base is growing in... The post Eswatini R Users Group Forging Ahead Despite Pandemic Hurdles appeared first on R Consortium.

Post Views: 1 There are many benefits to using RStudio Desktop from the YakData SmartDesktop repository. Speed, portability, a complete reproducible R environment, built on the Rocker project and all under your control with Docker! 🕶️ Watch it now 🔥 Resources Ready to try it? Get it on GitHub at https://github.com/...

I am always struggled to model the changes in gasoline prices as a categorical variable, especially in a small amount of time-series data. The answer to improving the performance of modeling such a dataset can be to combine more than one model. This method of combining and aggregating the predictions ...

Two Hundred and two new packages made it to CRAN in January. Several were in applications areas that don’t show up very often, and a few of these made it into my January “Top 40” picks. My selections are listed below in thirteen categories: Agriculture, Computational Methods, Data, Engineering, Finance, ...

Table of Contents Introduction Setup One group Two groups: single set of weights Two groups: separate spline bases and per-group weights Two groups: single spline basis and per-group weights Two groups: per-group weights with hierarchical prior One group: multivariate-normal prior on weights Two group: multivariate normal prior on weights Session ...

This post explains a Markov regime switching state space model. The bottom line is two-fold: 1) expanding states by each regime transitions and 2) collapsing each updated estimates for the next state prediction. The step 2) is necessary to fix t...

Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash This article is based on a project written on 01/14/2021 Bike Rental Shiny App This application use the data collected from the Toronto Open Data to generate a histogram of the usage of rental bik...

Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash This article is based on a project written on 01/14/2021 Bike Rental Shiny App This application use the data collected from the Toronto Open Data to generate a histogram of the usage of rental bik...

By Huey Fern Tay with Greg Page Everyone loves an extra income stream – even the super-wealthy owners of luxurious properties that they only inhabit for just a few weeks each year.  Offering a property as a short-term rental through a platform like Airbnb can provide a wonderful side hustle.  For ...