Accounting debkeepr v0.1.1: Provides tools to analyze historical, non-decimal currencies and value systems that use tripartite or tetrapartite systems such as pounds and shillings in the context of double-entry bookkeeping. See the Getting Started guide and the vignettes Analysis of Richard Dafforne’s Journal and Ledger and Transactions in Richard ...

Word clouds are a visual representation of text data where words are arranged in a cluster, with the size of each word reflecting its frequency or importance in the data set. Word clouds are a great way of displaying the most prominent topics or keywords in free text data obtained ...

Introduction As data science continues to be a sought-after field, creating a reliable and accurate model is essential. While there are various machine learning algorithms available, the process of selecting the correct algorithm can be complex....

Jackson Kwok, Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) recipient for the 2020 cycle, discusses the project Sketch and its implementation in 2021 as an R Package in the CRAN environment. The Sketch... The post Sketch Package looks to add JavaScript to R packages appeared first on R Consortium.

What happens when there’s no data to show to the user? This can occur in Shiny apps, where users must upload their own data. Well, one solution is to show an empty screen (an empty state). But this negatively impacts the user experience. A better approach would be to ...

Become professional at data analysis with tidyverse in R on May 10th! Learn how to extract, manipulate and explore your data with readable, streamlined and professional code using best-practices from the tidyverse R universe, such as those included ...

Introduction Yesterday I spoke about building tidymodels models using my package {tidyAML} and {shiny}. I have made an update to it, and will continue to make updates to it this week. I have added all of the supported engines for regression prob...

A Riddler puzzle on the three binary and sequential questions one should ask three players hiding their respective U(0,1) realisation, U, V, and W, to best guess which player holds the largest number, max{U,V,W}. Assuming questions of the type Is U

Antonio Hegar, organizer of the R Glasgow user group (also on Twitter), shared with the R Consortium his efforts to build an R community in Glasgow. He discussed the widespread... The post R Applied to Epidemiology and Infectious Disease in Glasgow appeared first on R Consortium.

Introduction RMarkdown is a powerful framework for writing a documents that contain a mixture of text, code, and the output of the code. Popular output formats for RMarkdown Documents (.Rmd) include HTML, PDF and Word Documents. It is also possible to output RMarkdown documents as part of a static website ...

If you’ve played with data for long enough, you’re sure to run into some popular dead-ends. There are many of these, from misspelled location names and addresses to placeholder values entering the data pipeline because of a bug. One of the most frustrating things, if not the prime ...

Today’s TidyTuesday is based on a dataset about the London Marathon. The data is via a package by Nicola Rennie and there is an accompanying tutorial about how to scrape data from the web. library(skimr) library(tidyverse) library(ggthemes) libra...

Introduction Welcome to the {tidyAML} Model Builder, a Shiny web application that allows you to build predictive models using the tidyAML and Parsnip packages in R. Let’s dive into the code to understand how it works! Load Libraries First, we ...

I’ve been blogging for 10 years, actually even a bit more than that, my very first blog is not online anymore and if I remember correctly was in French. I think it was around 2010 when I was a Master’s student. Anyways, here are my thoughts on why I think ...

I spent the last weeks building two small Mastodon bots with the goal in mind to make contributions by PyLadies and R-Ladies more visible. PyLadies and R-Ladies are global non-profit organizations that seek to empower and promote greater diversity in t...

Enhance your data science toolkit with our “Introduction to R” learning path: from the basis of the syntax, to building and hosting an R package on GitHub. R is among the most popular programming, scripting, and markup languages. Written by statisti...