Publications by R on Will Hipson

Why I love dplyr’s across

Very often I find myself in a situation where I need to perform the same operation on multiple columns in a data set. For this, I turn to none other than dplyr’s across function. But as we’ll see, not only does across help when we are interactively wrangling data, it also operates seamlessly within R functions. Here, I’ll showca...

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A first look at torch for R

In this post, I explore torch – a package for R that mirrors the PyTorch framework for deep learning. Motivation I’ve been a bit reluctant to join in on the deep learning hype for some time. Much of this I attribute to my lack of enthusiasm toward Python frameworks for deep learning. Don’t get me wrong. Tensorflow + Keras offers...

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