R-bloggers

This is the second in a series of posts (previous post: Part 1) in which I look at the following paper: Kissler, Tedijanto, Goldstein, Grad, and Lipsitch, Projecting the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 through the postpandemic period, Science, vol. 368, pp. 860-868, 22 May 2020 (released online 14 April 2020).  The paper is also available here, ...

Brian Law is a customer success representative at RStudio and a new R Views contributor. Jason Rich manages all US Data Engineering for PRA Group and studies computer science at Old Dominion University There are times when it would be really nice to get an email from R. Maybe you ...

Originally posted on the R Hub blog This post was contributed by Peter Li. Thank you, Peter! packageRank is an R package that helps put package download counts into context. It does... The post From R Hub – Counting and Visualizing CRAN Downloads with packageRank (with Caveats!) appeared first on R ...

If there’s a dataset that’s been most used by data scientists / data analysts while they’re learning something or coaching something - it’s either iris (more R users) or titanic (more Python users). iris dataset isn’t most used just because it’s easy accessible but it’...

Have 5-minutes? Then let’s learn time series. In this short articles series, I highlight how you can get up to speed quickly on important aspects of time series analysis. Today we are focusing on a critical visualization technique: Autocorrelation an...

This week’s #TidyTuesday datasets reflect on Juneteenth, the date when the law abolishing slavery in the United States was finally enforced throughout the American South, and specifically Texas. My own education as a white woman in the United States has been gravely lacking in the history of enslaved people, ...

sf up to 0.9-x uses mostly a flat Earth model sf 1.0: Goodbye flat Earth, welcome S2 spherical geometry Where did the ellipsoid go? Where did my equirectangular logic go? How to test this? What is next? [view raw Rmd] Summary: Package...

As the title reads, few more R-related tips and tricks. I hope you have not seen those before. Some utilities Methods are functions which are specifically written for particular class. In the post Show yourself (look “under the hood” of a function in R) we saw how to get the ...

As you may already know, the 2020 European R Users Meeting will be a virtual event. This year, Appsilon engineers Krystian Igras, Marcin Dubel, and Jędrzej Świeżewski will be giving virtual presentations on Friday, June 19th. Tune in to learn about xspliner, making production-ready R code, and using R ...

David Robinson (aka drob) is one of the best known R programmers. Since a couple of years David has been sharing his knowledge through streaming screencasts of him programming. It’s basically part of R’s #tidytuesday movement. Alex Cookson decided to do us all a favor and annotate all ...

ggplot2 is go-to R package for anyone who wants to make beautiful static visualizations in R. But most ggplot2 gplots look almost the same and little many data analysts or data scientists care about customizing it, primarily because it’s not very intuitive to do so. That’s where ggplot2 ...

Learn what dplyr does Get an overview of Select, Filter and Sort Learn what Joins, Aggregations and Pipelines are What is dplyr There’s the joke that 80 percent of data science is cleaning the data and 20 percent is complaining about cleaning the data. Anthony Goldbloom, Founder and CEO of Kaggle ...