Main issues when switching from R to Python and vice versa
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Vendée globe – Exploratory data analysis
While looking at Vendée Globe data, I had the feeling of some patterns to explain why are some skippers laggards and why some others are always in the top positions. I wondered what kind of graph could be used to help confirming or disproving such fe...
Vendée globe – comparing skipper race progress
I was asked to answer questions about how to show skipper’s Vendée Globe race progress, especially when comparing far apart skippers.
Vendée Globe official data provide distance to finish, distance to leader and last 24 hours distance traveled. As t...
Vendée globe – distance to finish
A single diagram, showing travelled distances and remaining travel to sail for the whole fleet.
If you seek for a potential winner, look at red and purple curves. There are still eleven sailors able to win,
the ones that are currently occupying pl...
Vendée globe diagrams
Vendée globe started on November the 8th this year, and as provides 6
data vacations per day, to let you create your own diagrams. Here are
some, all based on official data provided by the official
site.
I was willing to get a little bit more inte...
Medium to High volume CSV file ingestion REX
I had to ingest some medium to high volume data from official French government sites,
and would like to share my return on experience. Data ingestion here is
solved globally, without any other consideration than
maximum reduced time for implement...
Choose wisely your Rdoc production strategy!
[1]
Last post ‘Still hand-crafting your Rdoc
files?’ introduced package
wyz.code.rdoc to produce
R documentation file in a possibly fully
automated way. Let’s see today, which production strategy will offer you
the most powerful and productiv...
Still hand-crafting your Rdoc files?
[1]
If your still hand-crafting your R
documentation files, then you face a time consuming activity. Trying to
foresee time needed to get a documentation to an expected quality level
stays a real challenge.
The generic process to create an R
docum...
new release of offensive programming packages
Offensive programming ecosystem has been upgraded. You may now use new versions of packages according to following table
package name (available on CRAN)
recommanded version
wyz.code.offensiveProgramming
...
Offensive Programming in action (part III)
This is the third post on offensive programming, dedicated to using offensive programming (OP).
You may refer to easy introduction to offensive programming to acquire some basic knowledge about offensive programming, and to discover offensive progra...
Easy introduction to Offensive Programming
Many of us are using R in a way or another and we all have to deal with R intrinsics and sometimes R weirdness.
Standard R way
Base package, append function
Let’s look at a first example, using the very useful append function from base R.
The f...
Discover Offensive Programming
Package wyz.code.offensiveProgramming version 1.1.12 is available on CRAN.
If you are interested in reducing time and efforts to implement and debug R code, to generate R documentation, to generate test code, then you may consider using this package...
The most annoying warning for CRAN submission
When submitting one R package to CRAN, you must ensure that no errors, no warnings and no notes appears in the check process, enforcing use of ’–as.cran’ option.
devtools::check(document = FALSE, args = c('--as-cran'))
Sometimes a note or a...
R package submission REX
I submitted my first R packages a few weeks ago, and I believe it’s worth
sharing some return on experience, as the CRAN submission and acceptance
processes are much more tricky than they appear at first glance.
Package preparation and bundles we...
R meta programmation
Lately, R meta programmation seems to be in vogue. Very huge promises, encompassing
code to produce code, variable indirection naming schemes, and many others marvelous
features are now available through the tidyverse. Indeed, very huge promises,
are g...
R meta programmation
Real estate value analysis
French government provides from time to time some data sets that are worth the analysis. A friend, gave me this real estate data set, for analysis.
Data overview
After the download of this file, that weights less than 200kb, many things appear at fir...
Real estate value analysis
French government provides from time to time some data sets that are worth the analysis. A friend, gave me this real estate data set, for analysis.
Football FIFA world cup 2018 – global pronostics review
2018 FIFA World cup football is reaching semi finals tonight. It is time to have a review and to draw the lessons learned. As a reminder, know that I am just interested about right pronostic of the end of the game, I mean Win, Draw or Loss, not about the score. [Read more...]
Articles worth reading June 2018
:skull: marks article you’ll need resilience to what you read, as it may impact you deep :hearts: marks articles easy and positive :man: marks article for men :woman: same for women [Read more...]
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