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A Million Text Files And A Single Laptop
By Randy Zwitch Wait…What? Why? More often that I would like, I receive datasets where the data has only been partially cleaned, such as the picture on the right: hundreds, thousands…even millions of...
View ArticleDiscount R courses at Simplilearn
By Tal Galili Guest post by Simplilearn Simplilearn is offering access to its R Language courses at reduced prices. The offer is good till 31st Jan, 2016 with the coupon: GetAhead Check out the...
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Obama 2008 recieved 3x more media coverage than Sanders 2016
By Francis Smart Many supporters of presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders have claimed that there is a media blackout in which Bernie Sanders has been for whatever reason blocked from communicating his...
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R User Groups on GitHub
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert Quite a few times over the past few years I have highlighted presentations posted by R user groups on their websites and recommended these sites as a source for...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Pinball Flipper Tricks
By David Smith When I used to play pinball competitively, people would always express surprise that pinball was actually a competitive game. It’s not just about randomly bouncing balls: there’s quite a...
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The correlation between original and replication effect sizes might be spurious
By Daniel Lakens In the reproducibility project, original effect sizes correlated r=0.51 with the effect sizes of replications. Some researchers find this hopeful. — Jessie Sun (@JessieSunPsych)...
View ArticleNew Yorkers, municipal bikes, and the weather
By David Smith Like many modern cities, New York offers a public pick-up/drop-off bicycle service (called Citi Bikes). Subscribing City Bike members can grab a bike from almost 500 stations scattered...
View ArticleNew Yorkers, municipal bikes, and the weather
By David Smith Like many modern cities, New York offers a public pick-up/drop-off bicycle service (called Citi Bikes). Subscribing City Bike members can grab a bike from almost 500 stations scattered...
View ArticleRSiteCatalyst Version 1.4.7 (and 1.4.6.) Release Notes
By Randy Zwitch It seems as though I missed release notes for version RSiteCatalyst 1.4.6, so we’ll do those and RSiteCatalyst 1.4.7 (now on CRAN) and the same time… RSiteCatalyst 1.4.6 This release...
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As First Lady, Popularity of Babies Named “Hillary” Dropped by an...
By Francis Smart This is kind of a silly post but I noticed an article entitled “Poor, Poor Hillary” on R-Bloggers from a blog that is no longer in commission. This blog came up as a result of its...
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Shiny Developers Conference Review
By Liz Matthews by Aimee Gott Late in 2015 I was delighted to receive an invite to the inaugural Shiny Developers Conference to be held in Stanford, California. I didn’t have to think twice about...
View ArticleUsing RcppNT2 to Compute the Sum
By Rcpp Gallery Introduction The Numerical Template Toolbox (NT2)collection of header-only C++ libraries that make itpossible to explicitly request the use of SIMD instructionswhen possible, while...
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Like peanut butter and jelly: x13binary and seasonal
By Thinking inside the box This post was written by Dirk Eddelbuettel and Christoph Sax and will be posted on both author’s respective blogs. The seasonal package by Christoph Sax brings a very...
View ArticleFirst Bayesian Mixer Meeting in London
By Markus Gesmann (This article was originally published at mages’ blog, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) There is a nice pub between Bunhill Fields and the Royal Statistical Society in London: The...
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Tracking ggplot2 Extensions
By emaasit Introduction The purpose of this blog post is to inform R users of a website that I created to track and list ggplot2 extensions. The site is available at: http://ggplot2-exts.github.io. The...
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Le Monde puzzle [#947]
By xi’an Another boardgame in Le Monde mathematical puzzle : Given an 8×8 chequerboard, consider placing 2×2 tiles over this chequerboard until (a) the entire surface is covered and (b) removing a...
View ArticleUsing PostgreSQL in R: A quick how-to
By Nina Zumel The combination of R plus SQL offers an attractive way to work with what we call medium-scale data: data that’s perhaps too large to gracefully work with in its entirety within your...
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Going Bananas With Hilbert
By aschinchon It seemed that everything is in ruins, and that all the basic mathematical concepts have lost their meaning (Naum Vilenkin, Russian mathematician, regarding to the discovery of Peano’s...
View Articlehttr 1.1.0 (and 1.0.0)
By hadleywickham httr 1.1.0 is now available on CRAN. The httr packages makes it easy to talk to web APIs from R. Learn more in the quick start vignette. Install the latest version with:...
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httr 1.1.0 (and 1.0.0)
By hadleywickham httr 1.1.0 is now available on CRAN. The httr packages makes it easy to talk to web APIs from R. Learn more in the quick start vignette. Install the latest version with:...
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