tibble 1.0.0
By hadleywickham I’m pleased to announce tibble, a new package for manipulating and printing data frames in R. Tibbles are a modern reimagining of the data.frame, keeping what time has proven to be...
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By jjallaire You can install the The R Markdown package ships with a raft of output formats including HTML, PDF, MS Word, R package vignettes, as well as Beamer and HTML5 presentations. This isn’t the...
View ArticleR Markdown v0.9.5
By jjallaire A new release of the rmarkdown package is now available on CRAN. This release features some long-requested enhancements to the HTML document format, including: The ability to have a...
View ArticleLe Monde puzzle [#958]
By xi’an (This article was originally published at R – Xi’an’s Og, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) A knapsack Le Monde mathematical puzzle: Given n packages weighting each at most 5.8kg for a total...
View ArticleRegistration for R/Finance 2016 is open!
By Joshua Ulrich You can find registration information and agenda details on the conference website. Or you can go directly to the Cvent registration page.Note that registration fees will increase by...
View ArticleSimulating queueing systems with simmer
By FishyOperations We are very pleased to announce that a new release of simmer, the Discrete-Event Simulator for R, is on CRAN. There are quite a few changes and fixes, with the support of preemption...
View ArticleLe Monde puzzle [#958]
By xi’an A knapsack Le Monde mathematical puzzle: Given n packages weighting each at most 5.8kg for a total weight of 300kg, is it always possible to allocate these packages to 12 separate boxes...
View ArticleRcppNumerical: Numerical integration and optimization with Rcpp
By Yixuan’s Blog – R I have seen several conversations in Rcpp-devel mailing list asking how tocompute numerical integration or optimization in Rcpp. While R in facthas the functions Rdqags, Rdqagi,...
View ArticleThe FBI’s aerial surveillance program, visualized with R
By David Smith Buzzfeed’s Peter Aldhous and Charles Seife broke a major news story last week: the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security operate more than 202 small...
View ArticleDoes weather cause accidents – part 2
By Adventures in Data In part 1 I showed how to grab data from the forecast.io, now that we have all of that I want to use it to investigate the effects of weather on accidents. First, I realised after...
View ArticleMicrosoft Data Science VM now available as a Linux instance
By David Smith Microsoft’s Linux Data Science Virtual Machine is now available for use on the Azure Marketplace. Like the Windows-based instance of the Data Science VM, this pre-built system based on...
View ArticleeRum 2016 (european R users meeting) – invited speakers
By Tal Galili eRum 2016 will take place in the beautiful city of Poznań, Poland, betweenOctober 12th and 14th, and we already have confirmed invited speakers such as Rasmus Bååth (Lund University...
View Article52Vis Week #3 – Waste Not, Want Not
By hrbrmstr library(albersusa) # devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/hrbrmisc") library(rgeos) library(maptools) library(ggplot2) library(ggalt) library(ggthemes) library(jsonlite) library(tidyr)...
View ArticleHow to sort a list of dataframes
By Michy Alice The post How to sort a list of dataframes appeared first on MilanoR. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: MilanoR. R-bloggers.com...
View ArticleMicrosoft Data Science VM now available as a Linux instance
By David Smith Microsoft’s Linux Data Science Virtual Machine is now available for use on the Azure Marketplace. Like the Windows-based instance of the Data Science VM, this pre-built system based on...
View ArticleLearn R By Intensive Practice – Part 2
By Selva Prabhakaran This is a continuation of part 1 of the Learn R By Intensive Practice Series. In this part, we step up the game and learn a number of key concepts such as lists, sampling, data...
View ArticleGet Involved with the R Consortium
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert The R Consortium, the non-profit trade organization formed under the Linux Foundation to support the R language and the R Community, is beginning to build real...
View ArticleGet Involved with the R Consortium
By Joseph Rickert by Joseph Rickert The R Consortium, the non-profit trade organization formed under the Linux Foundation to support the R language and the R Community, is beginning to build real...
View ArticleShiny module design patterns: Pass module input to other modules
By Steph Following on from looking at the shiny modules design pattern of passing an input value to many modules, I’m now going to look at a more complex shiny module design pattern: passing an input...
View ArticleRTutor: Technological Progress and Fuel Economy of Cars
By Economics and R – R posts Christopher Knittel estimates in his article Automobiles on Steroids: Product Attribute Trade-Offs and Technological Progress in the Automobile Sector (American Economic...
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