Dear R programmers,In this May (2015), our favorite "R" almost came to 12th position in the popular TIOBE Programming Community Index (TIOBE Index), however, it is experienced some volatility after that and couldn't move further to top 10. Currently, it holds 19th rank (for this month); wishing it retains its position ... [Read more...]

Today, I am going to share results of an exercise that I carried out recently for a start-up. Intention of the study was to extract those major attributes that are generally driving less/in experienced (or) re-skilled data miners towards the given objective and to understand where they are failing ... [Read more...]

This study has made an attempt to understand, what HR's in a day dealt with at different working hours, by analyzing their emails from a particular organization. Sample size of the study consists of 7 HRs emails who are located at two different locatio... [Read more...]

Every month I see one or more new R based web server solutions coming into the market, sight seeing some of them thought of sharing one of my old architecture map manifested to the client long back in early 2009 (good to see quick spreading of scalable... [Read more...]

Rstudio has changed its website extension from rstudio.org to rstuido.com/ide and kept its new preveiw version at below link, few new things as "package development" tools are included in this version that makes job easy to develop new package.http:/... [Read more...]

Dear R Programmers,There is new package "colbycol" on CRAN, which makes our jobs easier when we have large files i.e. more than a GB to be read in R. Especially, when we don't need all of the columns/variables for our analysis. Kudos for author, Carlos... [Read more...]

Dear R Programmers,I have tried to capture R capabilites in a single slide. I welcome your comments/suggestions on the same. [Read more...]

Most of the time I came across now and then in help posts questions regarding the mismatching total count of observations after employing the R functions "table" and "ifelse". This usually creates frustration among fresh/part-time practitioners which e... [Read more...]

Hello everybody,Today I would like to make you learn a simple method (and of-course using R) how to identify whether a time-series has been differenced appropriately while making it stationary.Suppose, you have made a series stationary by differencing it, now in order to know whether it is neither ... [Read more...]

Dear Readers,Today I would like to post the easy way of determining number of lines/records in any given large file using R.Directly to point.1) If data set is small let say less than 50MB or around in R one can read it with ease using: length(readLines("... [Read more...]