RSwitch 1.4.0 Released
Swift 5 has been so much fun to hack on that there’s a new update to macOS R-focused mebubar utility RSwitch available. Along with the app comes a new dedicated...continue reading.
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gmailr v1.0.0
Introduction gmailr v1.0.0 (https://gmailr.r-lib.org) is now on CRAN! gmailr wraps the Gmail REST API v3. It provides a variety of funcitons to query your mailbox and create and send new...continue reading.
R Weekly 2019-34 LondonR, gargle, Pokémon
Hello and welcome to this new issue! Highlight LondonR: Hadley Wickham & tidyverse’s greatest hits What Types Should You Have on Your Pokémon Team? Efficient Simulation with Matrices in R!...continue reading.
Practice using lubridate… THEATRICALLY
I am so pleased to now be an RStudio-certified tidyverse trainer! 🎉 I have been teaching technical content for decades, whether in a university classroom, developing online courses, or leading...continue reading.
New Version of regtools package
My updated version of my regtools package, tools for parametric and nonparametric regression, is now on CRAN, https://cran.r-project.org/package=regtools It has a number of new functions and datasets. Type vignette(‘regtools’) fo…continue reading.
New Version of regtools package
My updated version of my regtools package, tools for parametric and nonparametric regression, is now on CRAN, https://cran.r-project.org/package=regtools It has a number of new functions and datasets. Type vignette(‘regtools’) for...continue reading.
Dummy Is As Dummy Does
In the 1975 edition of “Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences” by Jacob Cohen, an interesting approach of handling missing values in numeric variables was proposed with the...continue reading.
Improvements to RSwitch in v1.3.0
It’s only been a couple days since the initial version of my revamped take on RSwitch but there have been numerous improvements since then worth mentioning. For starters, there’s a...continue reading.
Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: “Why Can’t Johnny Code?”)
I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can’t Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same...continue reading.
Quick Hit: A new 64-bit Swift 5 RSwitch App
At the bottom of the R for macOS Developer’s Page there’s mention of an “other binary” called “RSwitch” that is “a small GUI that allows you to switch between R...continue reading.
LondonR: Hadley Wickham & tidyverse’s greatest hits
Meeting Hadley! Last Monday, I had the pleasure of attending a talk given by Hadley Wickham at LondonR, which was held at one of their usual venues at the UCL...continue reading.
Image segmentation with U-Net
In image segmentation, every pixel of an image is assigned a class. Depending on the application, classes could be different cell types; or the task could be binary, as in...continue reading.
Detecting outlier samples in PCA
In this post, I present something I am currently investigating (feedback welcome!) and that I am implementing in my new package {bigutilsr}. This package can be used to detect outlier...continue reading.
Calculating Always-Valid p-values in R
In this post, we will develop a framework for always-valid inference based on the paper Always Valid Inference: Continuous Monitoring of A/B Tests (2019 Johari, Pekelis, Walsh). Using an always-valid...continue reading.
EARL London – speaker interview, Johannes Tang Kristensen
We sent Johannes Tang Kristensen from Arla Foods a few questions about his upcoming talk at EARL London – ‘How much milk do our cows produce? Lessons learned from putting...continue reading.
Which Factors Influence Gas Prices? Do Gas Companies Narratives Hold True?
What are driving factors behind the gas price? With freely accessible data we are goging to find out if the brand, the location and more have any impact on the...continue reading.
Why R? 2019 – Agenda Released + Regular Registration Ends Aug 31st!
A month ago we closed Call for Papers for Why R? 2019 Conference. Today we are pleased to announce the agenda! From over 75 submissions (from 4 continents) we finally...continue reading.
How to Use CSS to Style Your R Shiny Projects
I hope you will give me 7 minutes to convince you why CSS is a good thing, and why you should be using it in your projects. In this post...continue reading.
Modern reporting for R with Dash
Creating an effective, informative, and aesthetically appealing report to showcase your data can be tedious: it’s often difficult to display your data and your plots together in an uncluttered manner,...continue reading.
gargle’s debut on CRAN
We’re elated to (somewhat belatedly) announce the initial release of gargle on CRAN! The gargle package (https://gargle.r-lib.org) is meant to take some of the pain out of working with Google...continue reading.
