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Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2020† 2021† latest latest 2020† latest United States -9.0 Q2 -31.4 -4.3 +3.1 -7.7 Aug +1.3 Aug +1.5 +7.9 Sep China +0.0 Q2 +0.8 +1.9 +8.2 +5.4 Nov§ +2.4 Aug +2.9 +3.8 Q2 Japan -10.1 Q2 -28.1 -5.3 +2.3 -10.9 Aug +0.2 Aug -0.1 +3.0 Aug Britain -21.5 Q2 -58.7 -9.8 +5.9 ... [Read more...]

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In R, objects are allowed to have attributes, which is a way for users to tag additional information to an R object. There are a few reasons why one might want to use attributes. One reason that I encountered recently … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Map art makes beautiful posters. You can find them all over the internet and buy them even framed for your favorite city, area or country. The beauty of those posters relies in the intricate and beautiful pattern of roads, buildings, parks, rivers, etc., which in turn shape our cities and ... [Read more...]

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Assume that you have a list and you want to get the n-th element of each component or generally to ... Read moreHack: The ‘[‘ in R lists [Read more...]

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Classic rock album covers inspire even more R colour palettes - If you’d have asked me a few weeks ago if I wanted to create an R colour palette package, I’d have said “No way”. In fact, I’d have added “There are already MANY R colour palet... [Read more...]

No, we are not talking about dinner, although this post is giving me ideas about what I should have for lunch. To read about what function currying actually means, please see the Wikipedia page. (And while you are there, make a donation already!) Ba... [Read more...]

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For the last few years we’ve offered automatic sponsorship for meet-ups and satRday events. However for obvious COVID related reasons, most (all?) meet-ups have meeting getting together virtually, so the need for extra Pizza money has diminished. As with most organisations, we’ve had to adapted to the new ... [Read more...]

When we share an R script file with someone else, we assumed that they have already installed the required R ... Read moreHack: How to Install and Load Packages Dynamically [Read more...]

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