Understanding data.table Rolling JoinsRobert NorbergJune 5, 2016IntroductionRolling joins in data.table are incredibly useful, but not that well documented. I wrote this to help myself figure out how to use them and perhaps it can help you too.

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The SetupImagine we have an eCommerce website that uses a third ... [Read more...]

Getting Data From One Online SourceRobert NorbergHello world. It’s been a long time since I posted anything here on my blog. I’ve been busy getting my Masters degree in statistical computing and I haven’t had much free time to blog. But I’ve writing R code as ... [Read more...]

Generating Tables Using Pander, knitr, and Rmarkdown I use a pretty common workflow (I think) for producing reports on a day to day basis. I write them in rmarkdown using RStudio, knit them into .html and .md documents using knitr, then convert the resulting .md file to a .docx file ... [Read more...]

R vs. Perl/mySQL - an applied genomics showdown Recently I was given an assignment for a class I'm taking that got me thinking about speed in R. This isn't something I'm usually concerned with, but the first time I tried to run my solution (ussing plyr's ddply() it was ... [Read more...]

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A while ago I was asked to give a presentation at my job about using R to create statistical graphics. I had also just read some reviews of the Slidify package in R and I thought it would be extremely appropriate to create my presentation about visuali... [Read more...]

In class today we were discussing several types of survey sampling and we split into groups and did a little investigation. We were given a page of 100 rectangles with varying areas and took 3 samples of size 10. Our first was a convenience sample. We... [Read more...]

For a class I'm taking this semester on genomics we're dealing with some pretty large data and for this reason we're learning to use mySQL. I decided to be a geek and do the assignments in R as well to demonstrate the ability of R to handle pretty larg... [Read more...]

This post is a huge jump from the last two - this is not for beginners!! But if you've ever considered building a GUI in R, looked at some of the online documentation, gotten scared, and decided not to, read this!!! Ok here goes. Dorian Auto GUI Setup: I built ... [Read more...]

Classes and objects in R Welcome back! In this blog post I'm going to try to tackle the concept of objects in R. R is said to be an “object oriented” language. I touched on this in my last post when we discussed the concatenate function c() and I'll go ... [Read more...]

Intro to R Hello, and welcome to my blog. The goal of this is to introduce people to R in a way that is easy to grasp. It's command line interface can be pretty intimidating, so hopefully this can help ease you into it. Chances are, if you're reading this, ... [Read more...]