August 2017

A modern database interface for R

August 1, 2017 | David Smith

At the useR! conference last month, Jim Hester gave a talk about two packages that provide a modern database interface for R. Those packages are the odbc package (developed by Jim and other members of the RStudio team), and the DBI package (developed by Kirill Müller with support from ... [Read more...]

HebRew (using Hebrew in R)

August 1, 2017 | Adi Sarid

Adi Sarid (Tel Aviv university and Sarid Research Institute LTD.) July-2017 Background A while back I participated in an R workshop, in the annual convention of the Israeli Association for Statistics. I had the pleasure of talking with Tal Galili and Jonathan Rosenblatt which indicated that a lot of Israeli ... [Read more...]

R⁶ — Reticulating Parquet Files

August 1, 2017 | hrbrmstr

The reticulate package provides a very clean & concise interface bridge between R and Python which makes it handy to work with modules that have yet to be ported to R (going native is always better when you can do it). This post shows how to use reticulate to create parquet ... [Read more...]

Let’s Talk Drawdowns (And Affiliates)

August 1, 2017 | Ilya Kipnis

This post will be directed towards those newer in investing, with an explanation of drawdowns–in my opinion, a simple and … Continue reading →

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Showing Some Respect for Data Munging

August 1, 2017 | Method Matters

In this post, I'd like to focus on data munging, e.g. the process of acquiring and arranging data (typically in a tidy manner) prior to data analysis. It's common knowledge that data scientists spend an enormous amount of time munging data, but data analysis, modeling, and visualization get most ...

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Hacking statistics or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Calculus and Love Stats Exercises (Part-5)

August 1, 2017 | Guillaume Touzin

Statistics are often taught in school by and for people who like Mathematics. As a consequence, in those class emphasis is put on leaning equations, solving calculus problems and creating mathematics models instead of building an intuition for probabilistic problems. But, if you read this, you know a bit of ... [Read more...]

Building a website with pkgdown: a short guide

August 1, 2017 | Lorenzo Busetto

As promised in my last post, here is a short guide with some tips and tricks for building a documentation website for an R package using pkgdown.In the end, this guide ended up way longer than I was expecting, but I hope you'll find it useful, although it often ...

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Plane Crash Data – Part 1: Web Scraping

August 1, 2017 | INWT-Blog-RBloggers

Several months ago I stumbled across the Kaggle data set Airplane Crashes Since 1908. Since I couldn't find the data source, I searched the web for historical plane crash data and quickly found the web page http://www.planecrashinfo.com. On this site you can find various tables inside tables with ...