Publications by Gergely Daróczi
Unify R plots with pander
MotivationR has a great variety of plotting tools (just to mention a few: the base graphics and e.g. lattice and ggplot2 packages building on grid) and most R user has a preference for either of them.I think all of you would agree with me: each package has its advantages and also disadvantages compared to the others. And any senior R user could c...
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Highlight cells in markdown tables
Although I have always wanted to add such feature to pander, a recent question on SO urged me to create some helper functions so that users could easily highlight some rows, columns or even just a few cells in a table and export the result to markdown, docx, pdf or any other fancy formats – right from R.The new helper functions can ...
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Call for papers: Budapest BI Forum
I am really happy to share some news with all R users about an upcoming conference to be hold in Budapest, Hungary. The organisers gave birth to the Hungarian Open Source BI Conference and the Innovative BI conference last year, and now building on the best traditions of those, the forthcoming Budapest BI Forum will not only concentra...
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pander 0.3.8 is out
I have just released a new version of pander to CRAN with some minor fixes and some (hopefully) useful new features to generate markdown tables beside other tools:although I really love the Droid Sans font that I used to bundle with the package, I decided to ditch it to save some space (50% of the package size),I have also updated the...
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Hungarian RUG on ggplot2
The rather new-born Budapest Users of R Network, the only Hungarian R User Group so far, with already 85+ members, continues its really young traditions to have talks on data visualization and providing a place for Hungarian R users to socialize while having some free pizza and drinks.Our next session will focus on ggplot2, Hadley Wi...
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Hungarian RUG on text mining
The only Hungarian R User Group so far, the Budapest Users of R Network, with already more than 100 members, is hosting two talks on the 27th of November on DataKind and the tm package.Bence Arató, head of a BI consulting company and the program chair of several Hungarian conferences, will give a short talk on the data-related probl...
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Introduction to R for Quantitative Finance
An introductory book on Quantitative Finance and R I co-authored with some learned faculty members of the Corvinus University of Budapest (Michael Puhle, Edina Berlinger, Péter Csóka, Dániel Havran, Ferenc Illés, Tamás Makara, Márton Michaletzky, Zsolt Tulassay, Varadi Kata and Ágnes Vidovics-Dancs) has been recently published ...
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Hungarian RUG: lighting talks
The only Hungarian R User Group so far, the Budapest Users of R Network (BURN), with already more than 120 members, is hosting several lighting talks on the 15th of January (Wednesday):Bence Arató (BI Consulting): Who uses R?László Bodó: C++ calls in RCsaba Burger (Burg Analytics): Financial decisions with lme4 Gergely Daróc...
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Call for papeRs in the near future
I am really happy to share some great news with all R users about some upcoming conferences in the near future. The calls for papers are still active for all three below events that I plan to visit, I hope I could meet more and more useRs there!The closest event in time will be at Bucharest, Romania on the 27th of March. The main focu...
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EditorConfig: force unified coding style from all your contributors
In the past 10 years since I started using R, there were a series of things that changed the way I code (in chronological sequence): my first R function, different IDEs, my first R package, roxygen, GitHub, the devtools wiki, StackOverflow, my first useR! conference, continuous integration tools and e.g. participating in the Google S...
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