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August 27-29, 5:30am PDT / 8:30am EDT / 2:30pm CEST – Register now! Brought to you by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Yale School of Public Health, and the R... The post Join us at R/Medicine – Aug 27-29, 2020 appeared first on R Consortium.

Get your R programming journey off on the right foot with this RStudio tutorial that walks through everything from installation to best practices. The post Tutorial: Getting Started with R and RStudio appeared first on Dataquest.

I recently came across this short fun post on R-bloggers that demonstrated how to use the image.ContourDetector package (available on CRAN) to extract contours from an image. The image of the contours looked really cool so I thought I would … Continue reading →

Intro Data dictionary EDA blueprint Outcome Discard the noise 1 Other_ related category 2 Pt_ Patient related category Appropriate patients Case_number Age 3 R_ Radiology related category Effusion and effusion site On chest x-ray ( R_CXR_effusion, R_CXR_effusionSite) On CT chest (R_CT_effusion, R_CT_effusionSite) 4 SS_ Category related ...

Part of my job at a regional water utility involves visualising operational data. We manage water and sewerage services for a large number of small and medium-sized towns in regional Victoria (Australia). Traditionally, performance reports consist of extensive tables filled with numbers with a line for each city. To make ...

Late last year, I added a mixture distribution to the simstudy package, largely motivated to accommodate zero-inflated Poisson or negative binomial distributions. (I really thought I had added this two years ago - but time is moving so slowly these days.) These distributions are useful when modeling count data, but ...

The BlueSky Statistics graphical user interface (GUI) for the R language has added quite a few new features (described below). I’m also working on a BlueSky User’s Guide, a draft of which you can read about and download here. Although … Continue reading →

The raceland package implements a computational framework for a pattern-based, zoneless analysis and visualization of (ethno)racial topography. The main concept in this package is a racial landscape (RL). It consists of many large and small patches (racial enclaves) formed by adjacent raster grid cells having the same race categories. ...

As the monsoon season (finally) ends, another TokyoR meetup! Since COVID hit all of TokyoR’s meetups since February have been done online and the transition has been seamless thanks to the efforts of the TokyoR organizing team. ...

I just moved to NYC in January 2020. My reason for moving was to enjoy the socially rich community and the plethora of activities that I could explore, such as museums, cute little theaters, Broadway shows, fancy stores, riding the subway and watching people, restaurants and the fun nightlife. And I ...