100 “must read” R-bloggers’ posts for 2015

The site R-bloggers.com is now 6 years young. It strives to be an (unofficial) online news and tutorials website for the R community, written by over 600 bloggers who agreed to contribute their R articles to the website. In 2015, the site served almost 17.7 million pageviews to readers worldwide. In celebration to R-bloggers’ 6th birth-month, here are the top 100 most read R posts written in 2015, enjoy: How to Learn R How to Make a Histogram with Basic R How to Make a Histogram with ggplot2 Choosing R or Python for data analysis? An infographic How to Get the Frequency Table of a Categorical Variable as a Data Frame in R How to perform a Logistic Regression in R A new interactive interface for learning R online, for free How to learn R: A flow chart Learn Statistics and R online from Harvard Twitter's new R package for anomaly detection R 3.2.0 is released (+ using the installr package to upgrade in Windows OS) What's the probability that a significant p-value indicates a true effect? Fitting a neural network in R; neuralnet package K-means clustering is not a free lunch Why you should learn R first for data science How to format your chart and axis titles in ggplot2 Illustrated Guide to ROC and AUC The Single Most Important Skill for a Data Scientist A first look at Spark Change Point Detection in Time Series with R and Tableau Interactive visualizations with R - a minireview The leaflet package for online mapping in R Programmatically create interactive Powerpoint slides with R My New Favorite Statistics & Data Analysis Book Using R Dark themes for writing How to use SparkR within Rstudio? Shiny 0.12: Interactive Plots with ggplot2 15 Questions All R Users Have About Plots This R Data Import Tutorial Is Everything You Need R in Business Intelligence 5 New R Packages for Data Scientists Basic text string functions in R How to get your very own RStudio Server and Shiny Server with DigitalOcean Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple 2014 highlight: Statistical Learning course by Hastie & Tibshirani ggplot 2.0.0 Machine Learning in R for beginners Top 77 R posts for 2014 (+R jobs) Introducing Radiant: A shiny interface for R Eight New Ideas FromÂ Data Visualization Experts Microsoft Launches Its First Free Online R Course on edX Imputing missing data with R; MICE package "Variable Importance Plot" and Variable Selection The Data Science Industry: Who Does What (Infographic) d3heatmap: Interactive heat maps R + ggplot2 Graph Catalog Time Series Graphs & Eleven Stunning Ways You Can Use Them Working with â€œlargeâ€ datasets, with dplyr and data.table Why the Ban on P-Values? And What Now? Part 3a: Plotting with ggplot2 Importing Data Into R - Part Two How-to go parallel in R - basics + tips RStudio v0.99 Preview: Graphviz and DiagrammeR Downloading Option Chain Data from Google Finance in R: An Update R: single plot with two different y-axes Generalised Linear Models in R Hypothesis Testing: Fishing for Trouble The advantages of using count() to get N-way frequency tables as data frames in R Playing with R, Shiny Dashboard and Google Analytics Data Benchmarking Random Forest Implementations Fuzzy String Matching - a survival skill to tackle unstructured information Make your R plots interactive R #6 in IEEE 2015 Top Programming Languages, Rising 3 Places How To Analyze Data: Seven Modern Remakes Of The Most Famous Graphs Ever Made dplyr 0.4.0 Installing and Starting SparkR Locally on Windows OS and RStudio Making R Files Executable (under Windows) Evaluating Logistic Regression Models Awesome-R: A curated list of the best add-ons for R Introducing Distributed Data-structures in R SAS vs R? The right answer to the wrong question? But I Don't Want to Be a Statistician! Get data out of excel and into R with readxl Interactive R Notebooks with Jupyter and SageMathCloud Learning R: Index of Online R Courses, October 2015 R User Group Recap: Heatmaps and Using the caret Package R Tutorial on Reading and Importing Excel Files into R R 3.2.2 is released Wanted: A Perfect Scatterplot (with Marginals) KDD Cup 2015: The story of how I built hundreds of predictive modelsâ€¦.And got so close, yet so far away from 1st place! Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance 10 Top Tips For Becoming A Better Coder! James Bond movies Modeling and Solving Linear Programming with R - Free book Scraping Web Pages With R Why you should start by learning data visualization and manipulation R tutorial on the Apply family of functions The relation between p-values and the probability H0 is true is not weak enough to ban p-values A Bayesian Model to Calculate Whether My Wife is Pregnant or Not First year books Using rvest to Scrape an HTML Table dplyr Tutorial: verbs + split-apply RStudio Clone for Python - Rodeo Time series outlier detection (a simple R function) Building Wordclouds in R Should you teach Python or R for data science? Free online data mining and machine learning courses by Stanford University Centering and Standardizing: Don't Confuse Your Rows with Your Columns Network analysis with igraph Regression Models, It's Not Only About Interpretation (oh hack, why not include a few more posts...) magrittr: The best thing to have ever happened to R? How to Speak Data Science R vs Python: a Survival Analysis with Plotly 15 Easy Solutions To Your Data Frame Problems In R R for more powerful clustering Using the R MatchIt package for propensity score analysis Interactive charts in R R is the fastest-growing language on StackOverflow Hash Table Performance in R: Part I Review of 'Advanced R' by Hadley Wickham Plotting Time Series in R using Yahoo Finance data R: the Excel Connection Cohort Analysis with Heatmap Data Visualization cheatsheet, plus Spanish translations Back to basics: High quality plots using base R graphics 6 Machine Learning Visualizations made in Python and R An R tutorial for Microsoft Excel users Connecting R to Everything with IFTTT Data Manipulation with dplyr Correlation and Linear Regression Why has R, despite quirks, been so successful? Introducing shinyjs: perform common JavaScript operations in Shiny apps using plain R code R: How to Layout and Design an Infographic New package for image processing in R In-database R coming to SQL Server 2016 Making waffle charts in R (with the new 'waffle' package) Revolution Analytics joins Microsoft Six Ways You Can Make Beautiful Graphs (Like Your Favorite Journalists) p.s.: 2015 was also a great year for R-users.com, a job board site for R users. If you are an employer who is looking to hire people from the R community, please visit this link to post a new R job (it’s free, and registration takes less than 10 seconds). If you are a job seekers, please follow the links below to learn more and apply for your job of interest (or visit previous R jobs posts).