Where to find the worst weather in the US
Which US city has the worst weather? To answer that question, data analyst Taras Kaduk counted the number of pleasant days in each city and ranked them accordingly. For this...continue reading.
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gower 0.2.0 is on CRAN
A new version of R package gower has just been released on CRAN. Thanks to our new contributor David Turner who was kind enough to provide a pull request, gower...continue reading.
See you in Barcelona this summer
Have you been feeling lately that you are missing out the coolest skill-set in academia? Here is you chance to cut in and dive into R. In July BaRacelona Summer...continue reading.
International Summer School on Geospatial Data Science with R in Jena
We are proud to announce our “International Summer School on Geospatial Data Science with R” taking place at the GIScience department of Jena (Germany) from 25. August to 1. September...continue reading.
Dataiku with RStudio integration
Introduction Some time ago I wrote about the support for R users within Dataiku. The software can really boost the productivity of R users by having: Managed R code environments,...continue reading.
Head’s Up! Roll Your Own HTTP Headers Investigations with the ‘hdrs’ Package
I blathered alot about HTTP headers in the last post. In the event you wanted to dig deeper I threw together a small package that will let you grab HTTP...continue reading.
shapper is on CRAN, it’s an R wrapper over SHAP explainer for black-box models
Written by: Alicja Gosiewska In applied machine learning, there are opinions that we need to choose between interpretability and accuracy. However in field of the Interpretable Machine Learning, there are...continue reading.
Convert between citations formats with R
rOpenSci has recently released a package that should be very handy for people that work with multiple citation managers (e.g. Endnote and a BibTex based manager like JabRef). Here’s the...continue reading.
Using parameters in Rmarkdown
Nothing new or original here, just something that I learned about quite recently that may be useful for others. One of my more “popular” code repositories, judging by Twitter, is...continue reading.
2019-01 A Geometry Engine Interface for ‘grid’
This report describes a new function in ‘grid’ called grobCoords and a new package called ‘gridGeometry’ that combines grobCoords with the ‘polyclip’ package to provide …continue reading.
Polished human cognitive characteristics chapter
It has been just over two years since I release the first draft of the Human cognitive characteristics chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book. As new material was discovered,...continue reading.
CRAN Mirror “Security”
In the “Changes on CRAN” section of the latest version of the The R Journal (Vol. 10/2, December 2018) had this short blurb entitled “CRAN mirror security”: Currently, there are...continue reading.
Est-ce que cette piscine est bien notée ?
J’ai pris la (mauvaise ?) habitude d’utiliser Google Maps et son système de notation (chaque utilisateur peut accorder une note de une à cinq étoiles) pour décider d’où je me...continue reading.
Efficient MCMC with Caching
This post is part of a running series on Bayesian MCMC tutorials. For updates, follow @StableMarkets. Metropolis Review Metropolis-Hastings is an MCMC algorithm for drawing samples from a distribution known up to...continue reading.
An architecture for real-time scoring with R
Let’s say you’ve developed a predictive model in R, and you want to embed predictions (scores) from that model into another application (like a mobile or Web app, or some...continue reading.
htmlunitjars Updated to 2.34.0
The in-dev htmlunit package for javascript-“enabled” web-scraping without the need for Selenium, Splash or headless Chrome relies on the HtmlUnit library and said library just released version 2.34.0 with a...continue reading.
drat All The ?! : Enabling Easier Package Discovery and Installation with Your Own CRAN-like Repo for Your Packages
I’ve got a work-in-progress drat-ified CRAN-like repo for (eventually) all my packages over at CINC🔗 (“CINC is not CRAN” and it also sounds like “sync”). This is in parallel with...continue reading.
Investigating words distribution with R – Zipf’s law
Hello again! Typically I would start by describing a complicated problem that can be solved using machine or deep learning methods, but today I want to do something different, I...continue reading.
KDA–Robustness Results
This post will display some robustness results for KDA asset allocation. Ultimately, the two canary instruments fare much better using … Continue reading →continue reading.
uRos2019: tutorials, keynote speakers, registration and call for papers!
The 7th use of R in Official Statistics conference is the event for all things R in the production and use of government statistics. The 7th installment of this conference...continue reading.
