Bay Area useR Group Lightning Talks
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert Earlier this month the Bay Area useR Group (BARUG) held it annual lightning talk meeting. This is by far our most popular meeting format: eight, 15 minute talks (12...
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By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert Earlier this month the Bay Area useR Group (BARUG) held it annual lightning talk meeting. This is by far our most popular meeting format: eight, 15 minute talks (12...
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Why should you backup your R objects?
By smarterpoland There is a saying that there are two groups of people: those who are already doing backups and those who will. So, how this is linked with reproducible research and R? If your work is...
View ArticleR Crash Course – Zurich, March 2016
By wuertz Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Rmetrics blogs. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials on topics...
View ArticleJP Jain Business School – Mumbai, February 2016
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View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Networking in Destiny
By David Smith I play a fair bit of Destiny, a space-themed video game. Actually, a lot. (It’s an amount my husband calls “too much”.) I enjoy the game not just for its great story and space-age...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Open 3.2.3 update
By David Smith We’ve released a minor update to Microsoft R Open 3.2.3 to address issues that some people were experiencing. The update available now on MRAN fixes the following issues: The Windows R...
View ArticleMicrosoft R Open 3.2.3 update
By David Smith We’ve released a minor update to Microsoft R Open 3.2.3 to address issues that some people were experiencing. The update available now on MRAN fixes the following issues: The Windows R...
View ArticleSubmission Correctness Testing in DataCamp DataCamp (Part I)
By DataCamp Blog This blog post will walk you through some basic examples of building Submission Correctness Tests (SCTs) so that you can begin to create your own interactive courses on DataCamp....
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bayesboot: An R package for doing the Bayesian bootstrap
By Rasmus Bååth I recently wrapped up a version of my R function for easy Bayesian bootstrappin’ into the package bayesboot. This package implements a function, also named bayesboot, which performs the...
View ArticleShinyapps.io Update Notification
By Roger Oberg RStudio is pleased to notify account holders of recent updates to shinyapps.io. Note: Action is required if your shiny application URL includes internal.shinyapps.io What’s New? We have...
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Shinyapps.io Update Notification
By Roger Oberg RStudio is pleased to notify account holders of recent updates to shinyapps.io. Note: Action is required if your shiny application URL includes internal.shinyapps.io What’s New? We have...
View ArticleDynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models made (relatively) easy with R
By Peter’s stats stuff – R General Equilibrium economic models To expand my economics toolkit I’ve been trying to get my head around Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) and Dynamic Stochastic General...
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Big Business Backs Hillary: Small Bernie
By Francis Smart Big business, lawyers, and the financial sector are the largest campaign backers of Hillary Clinton. Collectively they represent 35.5 million dollars donated to her campaign, 38% of...
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Toying with models: The Luria–Delbrück fluctuation test
By mrtnj I hope that Genetics will continue running expository papers about their old classics, like this one by Philip Meneely about Luria & Delbrück (1943). Luria & Delbrück performed an...
View ArticleWorking with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R (Part 1: Graphs)
By hrbrmstr I put this together after experimenting with ggplot2 and ggnetwork earlier this week. The changes I made added svgPanZoom into the mix. Consequently, it has a widget in it, so it was just...
View ArticleRead from hdfs with R. Brief overview of SparkR.
By Data Science Notes – R Disclaimer: originally I planned to write post about R functions/packages which allow to read data from hdfs (with benchmarks), but in the end it became more like an overview...
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inegiR version 1.2
By En El Margen – R-English Version 1.2 of inegiR is now on CRAN so I thought I’d write a few words/vignette about what’s new or different, if at all. By the way, i’m writing in english because more...
View ArticleRead from hdfs with R. Brief overview of SparkR.
By Data Science notes Disclaimer: originally I planned to write post about R functions/packages which allow to read data from hdfs (with benchmarks), but in the end it became more like an overview of...
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more e’s [and R’s]
By xi’an Alex Thiéry suggested debiasing the biased estimate of e by Rhee and Glynn truncated series method, so I tried the method to see how much of an improvement (if any!) this would bring. I first...
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