Here's a refresher on the history of the R project: 1992: R development begins as a research project in Auckland, NZ by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka 1993: First binary versions of R published at Statlib [see update, below] 1995: R first distributed as open-source software, under GPL2 license 1997: R core group formed 1997: ... [Read more...]

20.10.2017 Beside a massive of amount of R packages and ImageJ plugins Bio7 can be extended with Eclipse plugins useful for data science and programming. Some of them could also be very useful for R related developments (e.g., to develop R packages or distribute Shiny apps). Installation of Eclipse Plugins ... [Read more...]

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Week76 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. Go get that free agent gold! The post Gold-Mining – Week 7 (2017) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

There are three main ways to acquire corpus data using R that I will introduce you to: direct download, package interfaces, and web scraping. In this post we will start by directly downloading a corpus as it is the most straightforward process for the novice R programmer and incurs the ... [Read more...]

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Practical advices about customizing code highlighting on web pages with highlight.js. Prologue While creating this site I had to encounter the topic of highlighting code on web pages. I decided to do that with the help of highlight.js functionality. After picking a style with R in mind, I ... [Read more...]

While there are hundreds of excellent books and websites devoted to R, the canonical source of truth regarding the R system remains the R manuals. You can find the manuals at your local CRAN mirror and on your laptop as part of the R distribution (try Help __ Manuals in RGui, ... [Read more...]

At Plotly, we are commonly asked about thematic maps — especially county-level choropleth maps. This style of map provides a visual illustration of variation across a geographic area. Some pertinent uses are population density, economic measurements, crime statistics, and election results. With Plotly, there are multiple ways to bring county-level choropleths ... [Read more...]

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One of the specialist smoother types in the mgcv package is the Markov Random Field (MFR) smooth. This smoother essentially allows you to model spatial data with an intrinsic Gaussian Markov random field (GMRF). GRMFs are often used for spatial data measured over discrete spatial regions. MRFs are quite flexible ... [Read more...]

Motivation On a previous post I explained how to install R on Ubuntu 16.04 without further complications. Now here are the equivalent steps on Ubuntu 17.10. The presented script also installs Java and common packages as I wrote this for a fresh install... [Read more...]

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Now with new vignettes ... - A new update of the R-package RLumModel was released on 13th October 2017. The update includes some new vignettes and all vignettes are now written in HTML. An overview over all changes can be found at the NEWS.... [Read more...]

Taxis are plentiful and convenient in New York City, but the city is also served by a wide network of commuter bicycles (Citi Bikes). If you need to get from, say, the West Village to the Garment District, are you better off time-wise hailing a cab, or heading over to ... [Read more...]

By Gabriel Vasconcelos The Julia programming language is growing fast and its efficiency and speed is now well-known. Even-though I think R is the best language for Data Science, sometimes we just need more. Modelling is an important part of … Continue reading → [Read more...]

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19.10.2017 I released a new version of Bio7 for MacOSX. (Screenshots: Bio7 with Dark theme enabled. Scrollbars are set to “When scrolling” in the preferences.) For an overview of the new features please consult the release notes of Windows and Linux here: Installation: Download and extract the installation file from http://... [Read more...]