Author: David Smith

Many illusions are based on the fact that our perceptions of color or brightness of an object are highly dependent on the background surrounding the object. For example, in this...continue reading.

Every wanted to make R talk to you? Now you can, with the mscstts package by John Muschelli. It provides an interface to the Microsoft Cognitive Services Text-to-Speech API (hence...continue reading.

Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 has been released, combining the latest R language engine with multi-processor performance and tools for managing R packages reproducibly. You can download Microsoft R Open 3.5.1...continue reading.

The latest Redmonk Language Rankings are out. These rankings are published twice a year, and the top three positions in the June 2018 rankings remain unchanged from last time: JavaScript...continue reading.

In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to R users. A program to validate quality and security for R packages: the Linux Foundation’s...continue reading.

Python retains its top spot in the fifth annual IEEE Spectrum top programming language rankings, and also gains a designation as an “embedded language”. Data science language R remains the...continue reading.

Did you know that you can run R and Python code within a SQL Server instance? Not only does this give you a powerful server to process your data science...continue reading.

The August 2018 issue of Significance Magazine includes a retrospective feature on the R language. (I suggest reading the PDF version, also available for free access.) The article by Nick...continue reading.

There are more than 12,000 packages for R available on CRAN, and many others available on Github and elsewhere. But how can you be sure that a given R package...continue reading.

Looking for something original to decorate your wall? Art With Code, created by Harvard University bioinformatician Jean Fan, provides a collection of R scripts to generate artistic images in the...continue reading.