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Overview R's built-in copy-on-modify behavior prevents the user from having two symbols always pointing to the same object. Because pointers, as they are common in other programming languages, are essentially symbols (variable) related to an object that has already another symbol attached to it, it is clear that pointers do ... [Read more...]

The xml2relational Package Usually it is easier to work with data when you have them in a tabular, relational format. Often enough however, we only get the data in an object-oriented, NoSQL data format like XML or JSON. So there is a need to transform NoSQL data to something ... [Read more...]

In contrast to many other programming languages, R has no native switch-case statement. Often, however, it is useful to have an efficient way of testing multiple, similar conditions while avoiding nested if-else constructs which make the code less clear and readable. The switchcase package offers a switch-case construct for R. ... [Read more...]

In contrast to many other programming languages, R has no native switch-case statement. Often, however, it is useful to have an efficient way of testing multiple, similar conditions while avoiding nested if-else constructs which make the code less clear and readable. The switchcase package offers a switch-case construct for R. ... [Read more...]

A new version of my package packagefinder is available on CRAN. It has a lot of new features and comes with a YouTube tutorial. What is packagefinder? How does it benefit me? Currently, there are more than 14,000 R package contributions on CRAN p... [Read more...]

debugr is a new package designed to support debugging in R. It mainly provides the dwatch() function which prints a debug output to the console or to a file. A debug output can consist of a static text message, the values of one or more objects (p... [Read more...]

Given the vast amount of R packages available today, it makes sense (at least to me, as a trained economist) to ask a simple yet difficult question: How much value has been created by all those packages? As all R stuff on CRAN is open-source (... [Read more...]

There are over 12,700 R packages on CRAN. How to find the right one for you? The new package 'packagefinder' helps you search for packages on CRAN right from the R console. With 'packagefinder' you can search for multiple keywords in the name, tit... [Read more...]

The world is flat The new R package flatxml provides functions to easily deal with XML files. When parsing an XML document fxml_importXMLFlat produces a special dataframe that is 'flat' by its very nature but contains all necessary informatio... [Read more...]

The package xplain is designed to help users interpret the results of their statistical analyses. It does so not in an abstract way as textbooks do. Textbooks do not help the user of a statistical method understand his findings directly. What does... [Read more...]

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My package 'quantification' is now on GitHub: https://github.com/jsugarelli/quantification 'quantification' is a package that provides functions for quantifying qualitative survey data. It supports the Carlson-Parkin method, the regression approac... [Read more...]