In case you missed it: January 2016 roundup
By David Smith In case you missed them, here are some articles from January of particular interest to R users. Animated visualizations and analysis of data from NYC’s municipal bike program, created...
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Craft httr calls cleverly with curlconverter
By hrbrmstr When you visit a site like the LA Times’ NH Primary Live Results site and wish you had the data that they used to make the tables & visualizations on the site: Sometimes it’s as simple...
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The Easiest Way to Learn ggplot2
By DataCamp Blog Learn how to produce meaningful and beautiful data visualizations with DataCamp’s ggplot2 course series. Be introduced to the principles of good visualizations and the grammar of...
View ArticleDurban R Users Group Meetup: 24 February 2016 @ The Green Door
By Andrew Collier We’re kicking off the inaugural meeting of the Durban R Users Group with a live video presentation by Andrie de Vries (Senior Programme Manager, R Community Projects at Microsoft /...
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The answer is e, what was the question?!
By xi’an (This article was originally published at R – Xi’an’s Og, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) A rather exotic question on X validated: since π can be approximated by random sampling over a unit...
View ArticleGetting Started with Microsoft SQL Server on Azure
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert If you are an R user and work for an enterprise where Microsoft SQL server is important, it is extremely helpful to have easy access to SQL Server databases. Over...
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By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert If you are an R user and work for an enterprise where Microsoft SQL server is important, it is extremely helpful to have easy access to SQL Server databases. Over...
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[R] Kenntnis-Tage 2016: Mastering the Digital Transformation with R and...
By eoda GmbH “Digital transformation is happening now.” This is not only the message of this year’s CeBIT, but also illustrates the actuality of digital change in the business environment. Data...
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Plot the new SVG R logo with ggplot2
By hrbrmstr High resolution and SVG versions of the new R logo are finally available. I converted the SVG to WKT (file here) which means we can use it like we would a shapefile in R. That includes...
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new version of abcrf
By xi’an Version 1.1 of our R library abcrf version 1.1 is now available on CRAN. Improvements against the earlier version are numerous and substantial. In particular, calculations of the random...
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new version of abcrf
By xi’an (This article was originally published at R – Xi’an’s Og, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Version 1.1 of our R library abcrf version 1.1 is now available on CRAN. Improvements against the...
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Reverse Engineering with Correlated Features
By arthur charpentier In econometric modeling, I usually have a problem with correlated features. A few weeks ago, I was discussing feature selection when features are correlated. This week, I was...
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Clustering French Cities (based on Temperatures)
By arthur charpentier In order to illustrate hierarchical clustering techniques and k-means, I did borrow François Husson‘s dataset, with monthly average temperature in several French cities. >...
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A Tall Drink of Water
By Julia Silge In a previous post, I used water consumption data from Utah’s Open Data Catalog to explore what kind of users consume the most water in my home here in Salt Lake City, what the annual...
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New R logo
By Tal Galili The R logo has been revised in to be more compatible with the principlesof flat design followed by some recent user interfaces such as MicrosoftWindows >= 8 and Mac OS X >= 10.10...
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Why I use ggplot2
By David Robinson If you’ve read my blog, taken one of my classes, or sat next to me on an airplane, you probably know I’m a big fan of Hadley Wickham’s ggplot2 package, especially compared to base R...
View ArticleYou can now extend RStudio with add-ins
By David Smith The latest update to RStudio, the cross-platform open-source integrated development environment for the R language from the team at RStudio, adds many new features for R developers. But...
View ArticleYou can now extend RStudio with add-ins
By David Smith The latest update to RStudio, the cross-platform open-source integrated development environment for the R language from the team at RStudio, adds many new features for R developers. But...
View ArticleWorkshop on survival and time series analysis in empirical SE
By Derek Jones In January the material in my book on Empirical software engineering using R had its first exposure to professional software developers at a one day workshop (there was a rerun last...
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