R is greatly benefiting from new users coming from disciplines that traditionally did not provoke much serious computation. Journalists1 and humanist scholars2, for example, are embracing R. But, does the avenue from the Humanities go both ways? In a recent conversation with Christian Westergaard, proprietor of Sophia Rare Books in ...

It is because I am not a graph analysis expert that I though it important to write this article. For someone who thinks in terms of single rectangular data sets, it is a bit of a mental leap to understand how to apply tidy principles to a more robust object, ...

In a recent post, I presented some of the theory underlying ROC curves, and outlined the history leading up to their present popularity for characterizing the performance of machine learning models. In this post, I describe how to search CRAN for packages to plot ROC curves, and highlight six useful ...

One hundred and fifty-three new packages made it to CRAN in January. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eight categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods cPCG v1.0: Provides a function to solve systems of linear equations using a (preconditioned) conjugate gradient algorithm. ...

Welcome to the second installment of Reproducible Finance 2019! In the previous post, we looked back on the daily returns for several market sectors in 2018. Today, we’ll continue that theme and look at some summary statistics for 2018, and then extend out to previous years and different ways of visualizing our ...

By my count, 157 new packages stuck to CRAN in December. Below are my “Top 40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Finance, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities and Visualization. This is the first time I have used the Medicine category. I am pleased that a few packages ...

Welcome to Reproducible Finance 2019! It’s a new year, a new beginning, the Earth has completed one more trip around the sun, and that means it’s time to look back on the previous January to December cycle. Today and next time, we’ll explore the returns and volatilities of ...

Today, we continue our work on sampling so that we can run models on subsets of our data and then test the accuracy of the models on data not included in those subsets. In the machine learning prediction world, these two data sets are often called training data and testing ...

Having absorbed an average of 181 new packages each month over the last 28 months, CRAN is still growing at a pretty amazing rate. The following plot shows the number of new packages since I started keeping track in August 2016. This November, 171 new packages stuck to CRAN. Here is my selection for ...

Samuel Berchuck is a Postdoctoral Associate in Duke University’s Department of Statistical Science and Forge-Duke’s Center for Actionable Health Data Science. Joshua L. Warren is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University. Looking Forward in Glaucoma Progression Research The contribution of the womblR package and corresponding statistical ...

Samuel Berchuck is a Postdoctoral Associate in Duke University’s Department of Statistical Science and Forge-Duke’s Center for Actionable Health Data Science. Joshua L. Warren is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University. Analyzing Visual Field Data In Part I of this series on statistic in glaucoma, we ...

Samuel Berchuck is a Postdoctoral Associate in Duke University’s Department of Statistical Science and Forge-Duke’s Center for Actionable Health Data Science. Joshua L. Warren is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University. Introduction Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, with a prevalence of 4% in the ...

One hundred eighty-five new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my picks for the “Top 40” in eight categories: Computational Methods, Data, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods compboost v0.1.0: Provides a C++ implementation of component-wise boosting written to obtain high run-time performance and ...