My 15 practical tips for a bioinformatician
Tips below are based on the lessons I learnt from making mistakes during my years of research. It’s purely personal opinion. Order doesn’t mean anything. If you think I should...continue reading.
Tips below are based on the lessons I learnt from making mistakes during my years of research. It’s purely personal opinion. Order doesn’t mean anything. If you think I should...continue reading.
This blog post is about feature selection in R, but first a few words about R. R is a free programming language with a wide variety of statistical and graphical...continue reading.
Often we write programs to automate things. The programs range from simple to complex. But in essence, you always do the same thing: You are trying to solve a problem....continue reading.
In a previous post, I used water consumption data from Utah’s Open Data Catalog to explore what kind of users consume the most water in my home here in Salt...continue reading.
We’re pleased to announce that a new release of RStudio (v0.99.878) is available for download now. Highlights of this release include: Support for registering custom RStudio Addins. R Markdown editing...continue reading.
On May 19 and 20, 2016, Hadley Wickham will teach his two day Master R Developer Workshop in the centrally located European city of Amsterdam. Are you ready to upgrade...continue reading.
This is the sequel to the previous report “issues specific to cp932 locale, Japanese Shift-JIS, on Windows“. In this report, I will dig the issues deeper to find out what...continue reading.
A common issue when dealing with more than a few thousand data points is how to effectively make scatterplots. There is a lot of research on this topic that I...continue reading.
I have been working with a data set on causes of death in my adopted home state of Utah for a little while now, and I had been struggling with...continue reading.
A common issue when dealing with more than a few thousand data points is how to effectively make scatterplots. There is a lot of research on this topic that I...continue reading.
There are many map plotting features in rbokeh that I haven’t been able to cover in detail in the documentation. This post will go into a few of those, including...continue reading.
There are many map plotting features in rbokeh that I haven’t been able to cover in detail in the documentation. This post will go into a few of those, including...continue reading.
The rbokeh package version 0.3.4 was recently released. First of all, if you are new to rbokeh, check out the documentation here to get familiar with the package. You can...continue reading.
The rbokeh package version 0.3.4 was recently released. First of all, if you are new to rbokeh, check out the documentation here to get familiar with the package. You can...continue reading.
Devtools 1.10.0 is now available on CRAN. Devtools makes package building so easy that a package can become your default way to organise code, data, documentation, and tests. You can...continue reading.
httr 1.1.0 is now available on CRAN. The httr packages makes it easy to talk to web APIs from R. Learn more in the quick start vignette. Install the latest...continue reading.
We are pleased to announce version 1.0.0 of the memoise package is now available on CRAN. Memoization stores the value of function call and returns the cached result when the...continue reading.
I’m pleased to announce tidyr 0.4.0. tidyr makes it easy to “tidy” your data, storing it in a consistent form so that it’s easy to manipulate, visualise and model. Tidy...continue reading.
Introduction The Numerical Template Toolbox (NT2) collection of header-only C++ libraries that make it possible to explicitly request the use of SIMD instructions when possible, while falling back to regular...continue reading.
Introduction The Numerical Template Toolbox (NT2) collection of header-only C++ libraries that make it possible to explicitly request the use of SIMD instructions when possible, while falling back to regular...continue reading.