YAML to define hierarchic models Glenn is using the data.tree package to model commercial mortgage-backed securities. If you don’t know what that is, you can read it all up on Wikipedia. But in a nutshell, CMBS (or REMIC) are financial instruments that bundle multiple commercial real estate mortgages, ... [Read more...]

Profiling in R R has a built in performance and memory profiling facility: Rprof. Type [crayon-5755404797f32904591682-i/] into your console to learn more. The way the profiler works is as follows: you start the profiler by calling Rprof, providing a filename where the profiling data should be stored you ... [Read more...]

Question I recently got a mail from Václav on reference semantics in data.tree, reading as follows: Dear Christoph, I am rather inexperienced when it comes to environments in R and henceforth I apologize if my question is basic; however, my colleagues are no better than me to answer ... [Read more...]

I got a note from Karim Lahrichi, who even thinks about math when he’s supposed to be drinking beer. The bar puzzle they were trying to solve goes like this: Using all of the numbers 1, 3, 4, 6 exactly once, and any combination of: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (and parenthesis to ... [Read more...]

In this post, we explain how you can password protect apps hosted on Shiny Open Source server. This tutorial is the fourth in our Shiny AWS series. It builds on the previous tutorials, namely: Setting up an AWS instance for R Installing Shiny Server on AWS Shiny https As with ... [Read more...]

Read about the exciting new features of the latest data.tree release. generate tree plots! The post R data.tree 0.3 “Apple Tree” on CRAN: Now with tree plot! appeared first on ipub. [Read more...]

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No code for once. This is an independent, introductory article about RStudio’s Shiny web application framework for R. This could be useful for people who don’t know what Shiny is. Or for those of you who want to find out when to use Shiny.  What does Shiny do? ... [Read more...]

In this post, we write a shiny app that lets you display and modify data that is stored in a database table. Shiny and Databases Everybody loves Shiny, and rightly so. It lets you publish reproducible research, brings R applications to non-R users, and can even serve as a general ... [Read more...]

In this post, we do a brute force solution of Tic-Tac-Toe, the well-known 3*3 game. You’ll learn how data.tree can be used to build a tree of game history, and how the resulting data.tree structure can be used to analyse the game. This post is based on data.... [Read more...]

Today, the latest version of the data.tree package was published to CRAN. This version has been named Elder, as in celtic symbolism the elder tree stands for transition, evolution, and continuation, at least according to this site. Transition, evolution, and continuation. Sigh, beautiful. Back to the here and now: ... [Read more...]

The data.tree package provides a facility to create and manage tree structures in R, and to decorate nodes with methods. This comes in handy for many algorithms. For an example, see here. Or read up the vignettes in the package, e.g. from CRAN. In the last post, I ... [Read more...]

I have recently published the data.tree R package to CRAN. It provides OO-style tree building, with standard tree traversal methods. Read the vignette about data.tree features if you are interested, or the one explaining how to use data.tree for classification models. I’ve been asked how to ... [Read more...]

Introduction About this vignette What is ID3? Feature Selection Purity and Entropy Information Gain The ID3 algorithm Pseudo code Implementation in R with the data.tree package Training with data Prediction The prediction method Using the prediction method While preparing this example, I asked my nine-year-old daughter, “Anaïs, imagine ... [Read more...]

R Journal The R Journal publishs peer-reviewed short to medium length articles covering topics that might be of interest to users or developers of R. It is a welcome platform to spread word of new packages. As most academic journals, it has strict guidelines regarding the format of submitted articles. ... [Read more...]