Maryland’s Bridge Safety, reported using R
A front-page story in the Baltimore Sun reported last week on the state of the bridges in Maryland. Among the report’s findings: 5.4% of bridges are classified in “poor” or...continue reading.
A front-page story in the Baltimore Sun reported last week on the state of the bridges in Maryland. Among the report’s findings: 5.4% of bridges are classified in “poor” or...continue reading.
In R, the logical || (OR) and && (AND) operators are unique in that they are designed only to work with scalar arguments. Typically used in statements like while(itercontinue reading.
The Economist’s Big Mac Index (also described on Wikipedia if you’re not a subscriber) was created (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) as a measure to compare the purchasing power of money in different...continue reading.
I wasn’t at the Use of R in Official Statistics (uRos2018) conference in the Netherlands last month, but I’m thankful to Jeroen Ooms for sharing the slides from his keynote...continue reading.
Since 2015, the R Consortium has funded projects of benefit to, and proposed by, the R community. Twice a year, the R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee reviews grant proposals and...continue reading.
Here are some conferences focused on R taking place in the next few months: Oct 26: Nor’eastR Conference (Providence, RI). A one-day R conference, organized by grassroots R community members...continue reading.
In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to R users. R code by Barry Rowlingson to replicate an XKCD comic about curve fitting....continue reading.
Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, wrapped up last week and many of the big announcements focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning. The keynote presentation from Microsoft’s Cloud AI...continue reading.