Publications by R on The Jumping Rivers Blog

Speeding up package installation

14.11.2017

Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now The wonder of CRAN Parallel package installation: Ncpus Does it work? A permanent change: .Rprofile References Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now A simple one line tweak can significantly speed up package installation and updates. The wonder of CRAN One of the best features of R is CRAN. When a pac...

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Speeding up package installation

14.11.2017

Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now The wonder of CRAN Parallel package installation: Ncpus Does it work? A permanent change: .Rprofile References Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now A simple one line tweak can significantly speed up package installation and updates. The wonder of CRAN One of the best features of R is CRAN. When a pac...

4991 sym R (295 sym/6 pcs) 2 img 1 tbl

Timing in R

19.11.2017

Nested timings 1) Sys.time() 2) The tictoc package Comparing functions 1) system.time() 2) The microbenchmark package Conclusion As time goes on, your R scripts are probably getting longer and more complicated, right? Timing parts of your script could save you precious time when re-running code over and over again. Today I’m going to go thro...

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Timing in R

19.11.2017

Nested timings 1) Sys.time() 2) The tictoc package Comparing functions 1) system.time() 2) The microbenchmark package Conclusion As time goes on, your R scripts are probably getting longer and more complicated, right? Timing parts of your script could save you precious time when re-running code over and over again. Today I’m going to go thro...

3159 sym R (1838 sym/17 pcs) 8 img

Comparing plotly & ggplotly plot generation times

26.11.2017

Prerequisites Analysis Summary The plotly package. A godsend for interactive documents, dashboard and presentations. For such documents there is no doubt that anyone would prefer a plot created in plotly rather than ggplot2. Why? Using plotly gives you neat and crucially interactive options at the top, where as ggplot2 objects are static. In an ...

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Comparing plotly & ggplotly plot generation times

26.11.2017

Prerequisites Analysis Summary The plotly package. A godsend for interactive documents, dashboard and presentations. For such documents there is no doubt that anyone would prefer a plot created in plotly rather than ggplot2. Why? Using plotly gives you neat and crucially interactive options at the top, where as ggplot2 objects are static. In an ...

2188 sym R (1753 sym/8 pcs) 2 img

Competition: StanCon 2018 ticket

28.11.2017

The prize How do I enter? FAQ Today we are happy to announce our Stan contest. Something we feel very strongly at Jumping Rivers is giving back to the community. We have benefited immensely from hard work by numerous people, so when possible, we try to give something back. This year we’re sponsoring StanCon 2018. If you don’t know, Stan is ...

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Competition: StanCon 2018 ticket

28.11.2017

The prize How do I enter? FAQ Today we are happy to announce our Stan contest. Something we feel very strongly at Jumping Rivers is giving back to the community. We have benefited immensely from hard work by numerous people, so when possible, we try to give something back. This year we’re sponsoring StanCon 2018. If you don’t know, Stan is ...

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Hosting RStudio Server on Azure

01.12.2017

Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now Getting started Setting up R Opening ports ready for RStudio Installing RStudio Nicer URLs Adding SSL Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now Host RStudio server on an azure instance. Configure the instance to access RStudio with a nice url Getting started Azure is cloud computing framework provided by ...

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Hosting RStudio Server on Azure

01.12.2017

Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now Getting started Setting up R Opening ports ready for RStudio Installing RStudio Nicer URLs Adding SSL Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now Host RStudio server on an azure instance. Configure the instance to access RStudio with a nice url Getting started Azure is cloud computing framework provided by ...

5130 sym Python (1855 sym/19 pcs) 14 img