dplyr 0.8.2
Introduction We’re delighted to announce the release of dplyr 0.8.2 on CRAN ? ! This is a minor maintenance release in the 0.8.* series, addressing a collection of issues since...continue reading.
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Curly-Curly, the successor of Bang-Bang
Writing functions that take data frame columns as arguments is a problem that most R users have been confronted with at some point. There are different ways to tackle this...continue reading.
Quick hit: ‘dig’-ging Into r-project.org DNS Records with {processx}
The r-project.org domain had some temporary technical difficulties this week (2019-29) that made reaching R-related resources problematic for a bunch of folks for a period of time. Incidents like this...continue reading.
Revisited: Forecasting Last Christmas Search Volume
It is June and nearly half of the year is over, marking the middle between Christmas 2018 and 2019. Last year in autumn, I’ve published a blog post about predicting...continue reading.
Vignette: Write & Read Multiple Excel files with purrr
Introduction This post will show you how to write and read a list of data tables to and from Excel with purrr, the functional programming package 📦 from tidyverse. In...continue reading.
shinyApp(), runApp(), shinyAppDir(), and a fourth option
“should we use shinyApp() or runApp() when deploying to production?”Read More → The post shinyApp(), runApp(), shinyAppDir(), and a fourth option appeared first on (en) The R Task Force.continue reading.
rlang 0.4.0
It is with great excitement that we announce the release of rlang 0.4.0 on CRAN. rlang is a toolkit for working with core R and Tidyverse features, and hosts the...continue reading.
The Psychology of Flame Wars
I have been meaning to write this for a while, but with the dplyr vs data.table feud rising to new levels on Twitter the last couple of days, it all...continue reading.
Quick Hit: Above the Fold; Hard wrapping text at ‘n’ characters
Despite being on holiday I’m getting in a bit of non-work R coding since the fam has a greater ability to sleep late than I do. Apart from other things...continue reading.
Can random forest provide insights into how yeast grows?
I’m not saying this is a good idea, but bear with me. A recent question on Stack Overflow [r] asked why a random forest model was not working as expected....continue reading.
Simulating the bias-variance tradeoff in R
In my last blog post, I have elaborated on the Bagging algorithm and showed its prediction performance via simulation. Here, I want to go into the details on how to...continue reading.
Python Pandas MultiIndex and reading data from SQL Server
Python Pandas multiIndex is a hierarchical indexing over multiple tuples or arrays of data, enabling advanced dataframe wrangling and analysis on higher data dimensionality. Everyone have had come across multiIndex...continue reading.
BioC2019 recount workshop
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Word2Vec Text Mining & Parallelization in R. Join MünsteR for our next meetup!
In our next MünsteR R-user group meetup on Tuesday, July 9th, 2019, we will have two exciting talks about Word2Vec Text Mining & Parallelization in R! You can RSVP here:...continue reading.
Geelong and the curse of the bye
This week we return to Australian Rules Football, the R package fitzRoy and some statistics to ask – why can’t Geelong win after a bye? (with apologies to long-time readers...continue reading.
Hand-crafted artisanal data versus autonomous machine learning
This was a thread on Twitter, and I thought should reach a different audience here too. If you wonder why … Morecontinue reading.
Create Easy to Follow Technical Tutorials
Tips and tricks to creating easy to follow technical tutorials.continue reading.
Information theory provides a consistent framework for the analysis of spatial patterns
Quantitative assessment of spatial patterns has been a keen interest of generations of spatial scientists and practitioners using spatial data. This post describes Information Theory-based metrics allowing for numerical description...continue reading.
May 2019: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
Two hundred twenty-two new packages made it to CRAN in May, and it was more of an effort than usual to select the “Top 40”. Nevertheless, here they are in...continue reading.
