Following last year's tradition, I am happy to share some news on the forthcoming vendor-independent Budapest BI Forum to be hold between the 25th and 27th of November in Hungary.Beside learning about conventional business intelligence t...

In the past 10 years since I started using R, there were a series of things that changed the way I code (in chronological sequence): my first R function, different IDEs, my first R package, roxygen, GitHub, the devtools wiki, StackOverflow, my first useR! conference, continuous integration tools and e.g. ...

I am really happy to share some great news with all R users about some upcoming conferences in the near future. The calls for papers are still active for all three below events that I plan to visit, I hope I could meet more and more useRs there!The closest ...

The only Hungarian R User Group so far, the Budapest Users of R Network (BURN), with already more than 120 members, is hosting several lighting talks on the 15th of January (Wednesday): Bence Arató (BI Consulting): Who uses R? László Bodó: C++ calls in R Csaba Burger (Burg Analytics): Financial ...

An introductory book on Quantitative Finance and R I co-authored with some learned faculty members of the Corvinus University of Budapest (Michael Puhle, Edina Berlinger, Péter Csóka, Dániel Havran, Ferenc Illés, Tamás Makara, Márton Michaletzky, Zsolt Tulassay, Varadi Kata and Ágnes Vidovics-Dancs) has been ...

The only Hungarian R User Group so far, the Budapest Users of R Network, with already more than 100 members, is hosting two talks on the 27th of November on DataKind and the tm package.Bence Arató, head of a BI consulting company and the program chair of several Hungarian conferences, ...

The rather new-born Budapest Users of R Network, the only Hungarian R User Group so far, with already 85+ members, continues its really young traditions to have talks on data visualization and providing a place for Hungarian R users to socialize while having some free pizza and drinks.Our next session ...

I have just released a new version of pander to CRAN with some minor fixes and some (hopefully) useful new features to generate markdown tables beside other tools:although I really love the Droid Sans font that I used to bundle with the package, I deci...

I am really happy to share some news with all R users about an upcoming conference to be hold in Budapest, Hungary. The organisers gave birth to the Hungarian Open Source BI Conference and the Innovative BI conference last year, and now building on the...

Although I have always wanted to add such feature to pander, a recent question on SO urged me to create some helper functions so that users could easily highlight some rows, columns or even just a few cells in a table and export the result to markdown,...

MotivationR has a great variety of plotting tools (just to mention a few: the base graphics and e.g. lattice and ggplot2 packages building on grid) and most R user has a preference for either of them.I think all of you would agree with me: each package...