Summary If your organization uses R, there are clear benefits to having an organizational R package. Such benefits can be realized whether there is only a single R user or dozens of them. An R package focused on the particular needs of an organizat... [Read more...]

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I’ve created an app, Shinywordle. The use of regular expressions (regex) to solve the game is interesting. As an applied statistician I can’t consider myself a regex expert, but these have helped me a lot when working with non-structured data such ... [Read more...]

This post is an adaptation from Using databases with Shiny. Shiny apps are R’s answer to building interface-driven applications that help expose important data, metrics, algorithms, and more with end-users. However, the more interesting work that y... [Read more...]

Context This is not a competition, is just to show how to use the hardware with relative efficiency, being the idea is to show something collaborative rather than competitive. Assume that you work at customs and your boss asked you to obtain the a... [Read more...]

Using the R-Universe The R-Universe, created by Jeroen Ooms, provides a very simple way to create personal CRAN-like repos, which means a way to show your collection of tools in use to the community. In addition, you can use it to publish articles by using rmarkdown, an R package that ... [Read more...]

Usando el R-Universe El R-Universe, creado por Jeroen Ooms, proporciona una forma muy sencilla de crear repositorios personales tipo CRAN, lo que significa una forma de mostrar su colección de herramientas en uso a la comunidad. Además, puede usarlo para publicar artículos usando rmarkdown, un paquete de ... [Read more...]

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Dedicado a todos los que escriben comentarios estúpidos sobre las personas con discapacidades, LGBT+, no blancos y mujeres, y especialmente a los que promueven la falsa inclusión. Como siempre, este artículo es una opinión personal y no involucra a las personas que trabajan conmigo a menos ... [Read more...]

Dedicated to all those who write stupid comments about people with disabilities, LGBT+, non-whites and women, and specially to those who promote false inclusion. As always, this article is a personal opinion and does not involve the people who work with me unless they explicitly agree to this words. Context ... [Read more...]

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I interviewed Wes McKinney, the creator of pandas, and author of Python for Data Analysis. This interview was conducted as a way to provide something illustrative about Open Source Software now that I am committing actively to the arrow R package, ... [Read more...]

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A bit of context to put this on my stats blog: I’m reading Real Analysis books again as a part of my studies. I used to visit Kim C. Border site from time to time to read his excellent materials, and now I read that he passed away. I ... [Read more...]

Flash sale Jodie Burchell and yours truly have published two books, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ggplot and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine, on graphing in both R and Python using ggplot2 and plotnine, which are cross-language equivalents. You can ... [Read more...]

Flash sale Jodie Burchell and yours truly have published two books, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ggplot and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine, on graphing in both R and Python using ggplot2 and plotnine, which are cross-language equivalents. You can ... [Read more...]

I’ve created the site db-edu.pacha.dev to offer free access to SQL databases. Publicly accessible databases often impose query limits or require registration. Even when I maintain public and limit-free APIs, I never wanted to host a public database ... [Read more...]

I’ve created the site db-edu.pacha.dev to offer free access to SQL databases. Publicly accessible databases often impose query limits or require registration. Even when I maintain public and limit-free APIs, I never wanted to host a public database ... [Read more...]

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