Graham Parsons At Mango we’re often giving R training in locations where a reliable WiFi connection is not always guaranteed, so if we need trainees to download packages from CRAN it can be a show-stopper. Here are a couple of … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Ava Yang You may drop your weapons, this is not going to be about SAS vs R. If you work with a large amount of SAS legacy code, sasMap, an R package with a Shiny app, is for you. It … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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After a successful EARL London in September of this year (see here and here) it was Boston’s turn to shine. This is only the second time this conference has run, yet its quality of speakers is at par with London. … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Clara Schartner As part of my summer internship at Mango I got to help out creating training materials. Learning new methods by preparing them in a teachable way is definitely my new favourite way of learning! But once I started … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Joe Russell If you were to ask any R-user for the reason for R’s success, you’re almost guaranteed to hear the words “open source”.  As the second most popular open source language (behind Python) R has exploded in popularity in … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This year’s conference was a great opportunity to catch up with friends and meet new people who are eager to talk about their work with R. We enjoyed the sessions we attended and thought that the presenters were entertaining as … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This year’s EARL conference in London was another huge success. In this blogpost we revisit some of the presentations from Day 1. In stream 1 the conference started off with a presentation about recommender systems at the Telegraph by Magda … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Gábor Csárdi, Consultant, Mango Solutions Introduction If you are an R user it has probably happened to you that you upgraded some R package in your R installation, and then suddenly your R script or application stopped working. R packages … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Nic Crane Data visualisation is a key piece of the analysis process.  At Mango, we consider the ability to create compelling visualisations to be sufficiently important that we include it as one of the core attributes of a data … Continue reading → [Read more...]

By Aimee Gott About a month ago I wrote a review of the Shiny Developer Conference and I mentioned Shiny Gadgets, my new favourite thing in R. Over the last month I have played about with them and finally got … Continue reading → [Read more...]

    We are pleased to announce that early bird tickets for the EARL (Effective Application of the R Language) Conference have been released and are now available to purchase.  The conference will be held on the 13th-15th September 2016 at … Continue reading → [Read more...]

By Steph Locke Get the fully qualified domain name for your machine This is just a quick post, to mention how you can get your computer name with the domain it is registered in i.e.  the fully qualified domain name … Continue reading → [Read more...]

by Steph Locke Today, I needed to work on a package that had numerous dependencies on internal packages and ones from CRAN. To be able to handle dependencies in the installation process, I needed something like CRAN so that install.packages() … Continue reading → [Read more...]

                by Andy Nichols @andyofsmeg 1. Tell us a bit about your background in Data Science. In short I am a statistician.  That’s what I qualified anyway.  Following my degree I was employed … Continue reading → [Read more...]

    by Paulin Shek As a new Mango Consultant, I had my first experience of a Mango training course a few weeks ago. I observed Aimée Gott @aimeegott_R teach a 2-day public training course – “Introduction to R for … Continue reading → [Read more...]

          Following the overwhelming success of the EARL 2015 Conference and the feedback received, the 2016 London Conference will again be held in the Tower Hotel and the dates are: 13th – 15th September 2016. EARL … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Mango Solutions in collaboration with Capital One have organised a new R user group in Nottingham. R user groups are free meetings for those using or interested in using R – the open source statistical programming language. If you are … Continue reading → [Read more...]

By Paulin Shek Both R and distributed programming rank highly on my list of “good things”, so imagine my delight when two new packages, ddR (https://github.com/vertica/ddR) and multidplyr (https://github.com/hadley/multidplyr), used for distributed programming in R were released in November last … Continue reading → [Read more...]

By Stephanie Locke After some conversations at the coffee maker yesterday, I accepted the challenge of, wait for it… BUILDING A STAR WARS THEMED R PACKAGE! Some quick Googling found a JavaScript library that will generate some Star Wars based … Continue reading → [Read more...]