Publications by Mango Blogger
New R User Group – NottinghamR
Mango Solutions in collaboration with Capital One have organised a new R user group in Nottingham. R user groups are free meetings for those using or interested in using R – the open source statistical programming language. If you are in Nottingham and wish to meet, interact with and share ideas around R, then we’d be delighted to see you at ...
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EARL Conference 2016 – London Dates announced.
Following the overwhelming success of the EARL 2015 Conference and the feedback received, the 2016 London Conference will again be held in the Tower Hotel and the dates are: 13th – 15th September 2016. EARL is a Conference for users and developers of the open source R programming language. The primary focus of the Conference will be the commerc...
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Observing a Mango Public R Training Course
by Paulin Shek As a new Mango Consultant, I had my first experience of a Mango training course a few weeks ago. I observed Aimée Gott @aimeegott_R teach a 2-day public training course – “Introduction to R for Analytics”. Feedback is recorded from all Mango training courses and Aimée is one of the highest scorers so she is an ideal perso...
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Data Science Radar – Communicator Profile
by Andy Nichols @andyofsmeg 1. Tell us a bit about your background in Data Science. In short I am a statistician. That’s what I qualified anyway. Following my degree I was employed as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry for a number of years before joining Mango and broadening my horizons. I now head up Mango’s Data Science te...
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miniCRAN – developing internal CRAN Repositories
by Steph Locke Today, I needed to work on a package that had numerous dependencies on internal packages and ones from CRAN. To be able to handle dependencies in the installation process, I needed something like CRAN so that install.packages() woul work correctly. We have an internal CRAN but I wanted to make one specific to this set of packages. ...
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FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Names) in R
By Steph Locke Get the fully qualified domain name for your machine This is just a quick post, to mention how you can get your computer name with the domain it is registered in i.e.  the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) by using R. Base R In Windows to get the computer name in it’s fully qualified form you need to do: paste(Sys.geten...
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Early Bird Tickets for EARL R Conference London 2016
We are pleased to announce that early bird tickets for the EARL (Effective Application of the R Language) Conference have been released and are now available to purchase. The conference will be held on the 13th-15th September 2016 at the Tower Hotel in London. The Full Conference Pass includes: 2 pre-conference workshops (13thSeptember) both ...
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A Gadget for tidyr
By Aimee Gott About a month ago I wrote a review of the Shiny Developer Conference and I mentioned Shiny Gadgets, my new favourite thing in R. Over the last month I have played about with them and finally got to share my enthusiasm with users at Manchester R last night. In particular I showed off a gadget that I have put together for interactive ...
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Data Visualisation (+Shiny app)
by Nic Crane Data visualisation is a key piece of the analysis process. At Mango, we consider the ability to create compelling visualisations to be sufficiently important that we include it as one of the core attributes of a data scientist on our data science radar. Although visualisation of data is important in order to communicate the results...
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Project package libraries and reproducibility
Gábor Csárdi, Consultant, Mango Solutions Introduction If you are an R user it has probably happened to you that you upgraded some R package in your R installation, and then suddenly your R script or application stopped working. R packages change over time, and often they are not backwards compatible. This is normal and needed for innovation. B...
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