R-bloggers

What a week! Thank you for a fantastic rstudio::conf(2022). It was so exciting to learn and share with you during these eventful four days. This post will share some of the big announcements from RStudio. We will highlight amazing packages, resources, ...

I’m building a model which requires historical weather data from a selection of locations in South Africa. In this post I demonstrate the process of acquiring the data and doing some simple processing.

Many studies suggest that white, pink and brown noise can improve focus, help with relaxation and sleep and even reduce crying in babies. Due to these potential benefits many options are available to generate color noise, including sound machines, p...

This is part two of our two part series Part 1: Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 1 Part 2: Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 2 (this post) In Part 1 of this two-post blog series I c...

Quarto is next generation R Markdown that brings interactivity to documents using widgets, Observable, and Shiny. Let's see how to add server side execution to your Docker containers.

From time to time we all need some fun, so why not make some funny graphs since we are R users, yeah! This post is based on the tutorials on R CHARTS, do not forget to pick a look. Bar dogs First I want to show you how to add ...

I have a challenge: extracting data from an enormous JSON file. The structure of the file is very challenging: it’s a mapping at the top level, which means that for most standard approaches the entire document needs to be loaded before it can be processed. It would have been ...

Define a one-line R function FUN that provides the following output: FUN(seq(from = 0, to = 20, by = 0.1)) FUN(seq(from = 0, to = 100, by = 0.1)) FUN(seq(from = 0, to = 200, by = 0.1)) Answer: click to reveal We can write the function as follo...

Authors: Ivan Svetunkov, Nikolaos Kourentzes, Keith Ord. Journal: Naval Research Logistics Abstract: Exponential smoothing has been one of the most popular forecasting methods used to support various decisions in organisations, in activities such as inventory management, scheduling, revenue management and other areas. Although its relative simplicity and transparency have made ...