Alternate R Markdown Templates
By hrbrmstr The knitr/R markdown system is a great way to organize reports and analyses. However, the built-in ones (that come with RStudio/the rmarkdown package) rely on Bootstrap and also use jQuery....
View ArticleOpenCPU Server Release 1.5.4
By Jeroen Ooms Version 1.5.4 of the OpenCPU server has been released to Launchpad (Ubuntu) and OBS (Fedora). This update does not introduce any changes to the OpenCPU API itself; it improves to the...
View ArticleFree video course: applied Bayesian A/B testing in R
By John Mount As a “thank you” to our blog, mailing list, and Twitter followers (@WinVectorLLC) we at Win-Vector LLC have decided to re-release our formerly fee-based A/B testing video course as a free...
View ArticleWeekly R-Tips: Visualizing Predictions
By atmathew Lets say that we estimated a linear regression model on time series data with lagged predictors. The goal is to estimate sales as a function of inventory, search volume, and media spend...
View ArticleSpeaking at DataPhilly February 2016
By Corey Chivers (This article was originally published at Rstats – bayesianbiologist, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) The next DataPhilly meetup will feature a medley of machine-learning talks,...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft R Open: Replay and slides
By David Smith We had a fantastic turnout to last week’s webinar, Introduction to Microsoft R Open. If you missed it, you can watch the replay below. In the talk, I gives some background on the R...
View ArticleCricket analytics with cricketr in paperback and Kindle versions
By Tinniam V Ganesh My book “Cricket analytics with cricketr” is now available in paperback and Kindle versions. The paperback is available from Amazon (US, UK and Europe) for $ 48.99. The Kindle...
View ArticleNew Version of “Wrangling F1 Data With R” Just Released…
By Tony Hirst So I finally got round to pushing a revised (and typo corrected!) version of Wrangling F1 Data With R: A Data Junkie’s Guide, that also includes a handful of new section and chapters,...
View ArticleThe R-Podcast Episode 17: A Simply Radiant Chat with Vincent Nijs
By Eric The R-Podcast continues its series on Shiny and the first-ever Shiny Developer Conference by catching up with Vincent Nijs, associate professor of marketing at UC San Diego and one of the...
View ArticleWhat has Kaggle learned from 2 million machine learning models?
By Szilard Pafka What has Kaggle learned from 2 million machine learning models? Anthony Goldbloom, founder and CEO of Kaggle UPDATE: Video available here Kaggle is a community of almost 450K data...
View ArticlePitfall of XML package: to know the cause
By tomizono This is the sequel to the previous report “issues specific to cp932 locale, Japanese Shift-JIS, on Windows“. In this report, I will dig the issues deeper to find out what is exactly...
View ArticleIntroducing Microsoft R Open: Replay and slides
By David Smith Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Revolutions. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics...
View ArticleShiny Developer Conference 2016 Recap
By Stephen Turner Last weekend I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the first ever Shiny Developer Conference hosted by RStudio at Stanford University. I’ve built a handful of apps, and...
View ArticleData from the World Health Organization API
By Peter’s stats stuff – R Eric Persson released yesterday a new WHO R package which allows easy access to the World Health Organization’s data API. He’s also done a nice vignette introducing its use....
View ArticleThere’s a party at Alexa’s place
By Alvaro “Blag” Tejada Galindo This is my first blog of the year…so I want it to be something really nice and huge -:) You know how much I love the R Programming Language…but I also love other...
View ArticleHadley Wickham’s Advanced R in Amsterdam
By Roger Oberg On May 19 and 20, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his two day Master R Developer Workshop in the centrally located European city of Amsterdam. Are you ready to upgrade your R skills?...
View ArticleBuild your own neural network classifier in R
By Jun Ma – Data Blog Introduction Image classification is one important field in Computer Vision, not only because so many applications are associated with it, but also a lot of Computer Vision...
View ArticleHadley Wickham’s Advanced R in Amsterdam
By Roger Oberg On May 19 and 20, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his two day Master R Developer Workshop in the centrally located European city of Amsterdam. Are you ready to upgrade your R skills?...
View ArticleMastering R plot – Part 2: Axis
By Lionel Hertzog This is the second part of the Mastering R plot series. The standard plot function in R allows extensive tuning of every element being plotted. There are, however, many possible ways...
View Articlefunctions exercises
By r-exercises Today we’re practising functions! In the exercises below, you’re asked to write short R scripts that define functions aimed at specific tasks. The exercises start at an easy level, and...
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