Install R without support for long doubles (noLD) on Ubuntu
R packages on CRAN needs to pass a series of technical checks. These checks can also be invoked by any user when running R CMD check on the package tar.gz...continue reading.
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R Weekly 2020-45 Web SVG graphics device, markdown powered ggplot themes, playing Midi
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Release Date: 2020-06-22 This week’s release was curated by Miles McBain, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. How to have...continue reading.
Select columns from a data frame
To select only a specific set of interesting data frame columns dplyr offers the select() function to extract columns by names, indices and ranges. You can even rename extracted columns...continue reading.
Latin American Communities and Organizations
Check the companion R Consortium blog post.continue reading.
Show all data in the background of your faceted ggplot
One of the game-changing features of ggplot2 was the ease with which one can explore the dimensions of the data using small multiples.1 There is a small trick that I...continue reading.
tinytest 1.2.2 is on CRAN
The tinytest package was accepted on CRAN at 18 june. This release improves the build_install_test() function with two extra arguments that were previously missing, as reported by Patrick Breheny. Meanwhile,...continue reading.
Why fluency matters
Here at Sharp Sight, I frequently use the word “fluent” to describe an ideal skill level with data science. When you join our courses, our goal is to help you...continue reading.
R Can Pull the Fire Alarm!
Brian Law is a customer success representative at RStudio and a new R Views contributor. Jason Rich manages all US Data Engineering for PRA Group and studies computer science at...continue reading.
Impute missing data for #TidyTuesday voyages of captive Africans with tidymodels
Understand more about the forced transport of African people using the Slave Voyages database.continue reading.
Impute missing data for #TidyTuesday voyages of captive Africans with tidymodels
This week’s #TidyTuesday dataset reflects on Juneteenth, the date when the law abolishing slavery in the United States was finally enforced throughout the American South, and specifically Texas. My own...continue reading.
sans sérif & sans chevron
{\sf df=function(x)2*pi*x-4*(x>1)*acos(1/(x+(1-x)*(x<1)))} As I was LaTeXing a remote exam for next week, including some R code questions, I came across the apparent impossibility to use < and > symbols in...continue reading.
eRum 2020: Appsilon Presentations On xspliner, fast.ai, and Writing Production-Ready R Code
As you may already know, the 2020 European R Users Meeting will be a virtual event. This year, Appsilon engineers Krystian Igras, Marcin Dubel, and Jędrzej Świeżewski will be giving...continue reading.
Introduction to dplyr
Learn what dplyr does Get an overview of Select, Filter and Sort Learn what Joins, Aggregations and Pipelines are There’s the joke that 80 percent of data science is cleaning...continue reading.
Logging in R: Why, When, and How
Anyone who is writing R code should get familiar with logging. While it may not be useful for writing exploratory scripts or doing basic coding projects, logging can be critical...continue reading.
funModeling: New site, logo and version ????
funModeling is focused on exploratory data analysis, data preparation and the evaluation of models. Check the latest functions and website here 🙂continue reading.
R Weekly 2020-24 AfricaR/MiR/R-Ladies useR! tutorials, seven American generations, iris
Hello and welcome to this new issue! How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly? This week’s release was curated by Ryo Nakagawara, with help from the RWeekly team...continue reading.
overlap, overstreched
An interesting challenge on The Riddler on the probability to see a random interval X’ing with all other random intervals when generating n intervals from Dirichlet D(1,1,1). As it happens...continue reading.
New Book on Machine Learning
I’m nearing completion of writing my new book, The Art of Machine Learning: Algorithms+Data+R, to be published by the whimsically named No Starch Press. I’m making a rough, partial draft...continue reading.
New Book on Machine Learning
I’m nearing completion of writing my new book, The Art of Machine Learning: Algorithms+Data+R, to be published by the whimsically named No Starch Press. I’m making a rough, partial draft...continue reading.
Select first or last rows of a data frame
We often do not need to look at all the contents of a data frame in the console. Instead, only parts of it are sufficient like the top or bottom...continue reading.
