Introduction Roxygen2 is a convenient way to document functions in R packages. Based on the Doxygen model, it parses relevant information from the comments and generates the corresponding man/*.Rd files....continue reading.
Here is an R function that produces a Metropolis-Hastings sample for the univariate log-target f when the later is defined outside as another function. And when using a Gaussian random...continue reading.
The R language and RStudio IDE are a powerful combination for “getting stuff done”, and one aspect of R itself that makes it especially useful is the ability to use...continue reading.
This tutorial will show you how to make a Seaborn barplot. The tutorial explains the syntax of sns.barplot, and shows step-by-step examples of how to create bar charts with Seaborn....continue reading.
If you are lucky enough to have some extra time for discretionary reading during the holiday season, you may find it interesting (and rewarding) to sample some of the nearly...continue reading.
One of the biggest projects I have worked on over the past several years is the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, and one of the most unique aspects of this survey...continue reading.
This post by Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv presents a parsimonious view of common statistical tests which are, on their own, confusingly and inconsistently named and, taken together, a mess. Jonas argues...continue reading.
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Writing R in VSCode: Interacting with an R session Analysing large data on your laptop with a database and R Packages that Sparked...continue reading.
The Reliability chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been updated (draft pdf). Unlike the earlier chapters, there were no major changes to the initial version from over 18-months...continue reading.
The Reliability chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been updated (draft pdf). Unlike the earlier chapters, there were no major changes to the initial version from over 18-months...continue reading.
A prime number challenge [or rather two!] as Le weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle: When considering the first two integers, 1 and 2, their sum is 3, a prime number....continue reading.
Sin patria ni banderas, ahora vivo a mi manera; y es que me siento extranjero fuera de tus agujeros (Tercer movimiento: Lo de dentro, Extremoduro) The technique I experimented with...continue reading.
I woke up to Axios’ “1 Big Thing” ridgeline chart showing the crazy that was the 2019 news cycle: and, I decided to reproduce it in {ggplot2}. Getting The Data...continue reading.
Having as much possible Power BI estate when it comes to putting the visuals for data exploration, is everyone’s dream. But the slicers for “slicing and dicing” the data is...continue reading.
(best viewed on original website) Over the last year, my focus has been diverted from exploring analytics, new packages and blogging, to completing my dissertation. With the dissertation now complete...continue reading.
By the end of 2019, I finally managed to wrap up my third R package YAP (https://github.com/statcompute/yap) that implements the Probabilistic Neural Network (Specht, 1990) for the N-category pattern recognition...continue reading.
Wishing all of my fellow data geeks a very happy holiday season. Celebrating by creating Holiday e-Card themed R graphs.continue reading.
Previously in this series: The “knight on an infinite chessboard” puzzle The “lost boarding pass” puzzle The “deadly board game” puzzle I recently came across an interview problem from A...continue reading.
The working group of Statistics at Humboldt University of Berlin invites applications for one Postdoctoral research fellow (full-time employment, 3 years with extension possible) to contribute to the research on...continue reading.
The right jolly old elves over at Alteryx created a “Santalytics” challenge back in 2016 to see if their community members could help Santa deliver presents to kids all across...continue reading.
GIS / R / R News / Shiny / Visualization
Interactive visualization of geospatial data with R Shiny
April 17, 2021
