There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things — Miguel de Cervantes Building R packages from sources may take a long time, especially if…Read more › [Read more...]

A reliable string processing toolkit is a must-have for any data scientist. A new release of the stringi package is available on CRAN (please wait a few days for Windows and OS X binary builds). As for now, about 850…Read more › [Read more...]

by Marek Gagolewski, Maciej Bartoszuk, Anna Cena, and Jan Lasek (Rexamine). Introduction In a recent blog post we explained how we managed to set up a working Hadoop environment on a few CentOS7 machines. To test the installation, let’s play…Read more › [Read more...]

A new release of the stringi package is available on CRAN (please wait a few days for Windows and OS X binary builds). # install.packages("stringi") or update.packages() library("stringi") Here’s a list of changes in version 0.4-1. In the current release,…Read more › [Read more...]

A new release of the stringi package is available on CRAN (please wait a few days for Windows and OS X binary builds). # install.packages("stringi") or update.packages() library("stringi") stringi is an R package providing (but definitely not limiting to) equivalents…Read more › [Read more...]

The ICU (International Components for Unicode) library provides very powerful and flexible ways to apply various Unicode text transforms. These include: Full (language-specific) case mappings, Unicode normalization, Text transliteration (e.g. script-to-script conversion). All of these are available to R programmers/users…Read more › [Read more...]

In my recent post I promised to present the most interesting features of the stringi package in more detail. Here's one of such jolly features. Many LaTeX users may find it very useful. Loading a text file with encoding auto-detection…Read more › [Read more...]

A new release of the stringi package is available on CRAN (please wait a few days for Windows and OS X binary builds). stringi is a package providing (but definitely not limiting to) replacements for nearly all the character string…Read more › [Read more...]

ShareLaTeX (click here to register a free account) is a wonderful and reliable on-line editor for writing and compiling LaTeX documents “in the cloud” as well as working together in real-time (imagine Google Docs supporting LaTeX =__ you get ShareLaTeX).…Read more › [Read more...]

A new release of the FuzzyNumbers package for R is now available on CRAN. The package provides S4 classes and methods to deal with Fuzzy Numbers that allow for computations of arithmetic operations, approximation by trapezoidal and piecewise linear FNs,…Read more › [Read more...]

A new version of the FuzzyNumbers package for R has just been submitted to the CRAN archive. Check out our step-by-step tutorial. ** FuzzyNumbers Package CHANGELOG ** ********************************************************************* 0.3-1 /2013-06-23/ * piecewiseLinearApproximation() - general case (any knot.n) for method="NearestEuclidean" now…Read more › [Read more...]

While developing our agop package I encountered some problems with calling S4 generic functions defined in the Matrix package, that were created from “base” S3 generics. I don’t know whether it’s an R bug (tested in R 2.15 and R…Read more › [Read more...]

R package developers who use the native API written in C will surely be interested in the Roxygen-generated Documentation of R source code. The documentation is based on the SVN R-devel branch and will be updated on a monthly basis…Read more › [Read more...]

Setting up tikzDevice output in knitr may be a frustrating task, but gives outstandingly aesthetic, LaTeX-like figures. Here are my global knitr settings for typesetting documents in Polish (in UTF-8, make sure your R also runs in a Unicode locale…Read more › [Read more...]

Kile – a convenient LaTeX editor – may also be used to prepare knitr-generated reports. Here is how we may make our work much more efficient with a convenient compile-on-keypress feature. Create a bash script in your home directory, named…Read more › [Read more...]

We should pay special attention to writing a truly portable code that works in the same fashion under different locales and character encodings. Currently, R has two Regex engines, ERE (via TRE) and PRE (via PCRE). What is surprising, they…Read more › [Read more...]