Publications by Why R? Foundation
Upcoming Why R Webinar – Clean up your data screening process with _reporteR_
On Thursday, December 3rd at 7 pm UTC, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we have the honour to host Claus Ekstrøm and Anne Helby Petersen from the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. They will present a talk about reporteR (formerly known as dataMaid), an R package that generates friendly data overview reports for le...
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Upcoming Why R Webinar – R at Microsoft
This Thursday, December 10th at 7 pm UTC, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we will be delighted to host David Smith, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. He will be speaking about the history of R at Microsoft and surveying the company products that now integrate with our beloved R programming language. David will answer all your questions...
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Why R? Foundation 2020-12-15 04:47:03
This Thursday, December 17th at 7 pm UTC, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we will be delighted to host Paulito Palmes, a research scientist in IBM Research Europe. He will be speaking about combining utilities and workflows of R and Julia to solve real life problems! Paulito will answer all your questions at the end of the session. Join us...
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Upcoming Why R Webinar – JuliaR combining Julia and R
This Thursday, December 17th at 7 pm UTC, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we will be delighted to host Paulito Palmes, a research scientist in IBM Research Europe. He will be speaking about combining utilities and workflows of R and Julia to solve real life problems! Paulito will answer all your questions at the end of the session. Join us...
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Why R 2020 Discussion Panel – Geospatial
Three months ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. The highlights of the conference were Discussion Panels! Today we would like to remind you about the Geospatial panel. The video from the recording is at the end of the post. rspatial is one of the examples of prolific R communities coordinating the efforts to push the boundaries of spatial d...
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Why R 2020 Discussion Panel – Bioinformatics
Three months ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. The highlights of the conference were Discussion Panels! Today we would like to remind you about the Bioinformatics panel. The video from the recording is at the end of the post. Even before the establishment of Bioconductor, R has been a staple tool in bioinformatics. However, with the adven...
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Why R 2020 Discussion Panel – Performance in R
Three months ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. The highlights of the conference were Discussion Panels! Today we would like to remind you about the Performance panel. The video from the recording is at the end of the post. Is R a slow and memory-inefficient language or does this perception stem from improper usage? How can users avoid suc...
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Why R 2020 Discussion Panel – Statistical Misconceptions
Three months ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. The highlights of the conference were Discussion Panels! Today we would like to remind you about the Statistical Misconceptions panel. The video from the recording is at the end of the post. From Excel spreadsheets to R scripts, data analysis is everywhere. However, its popularity results in ...
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Kenneth Benoit – Why you should stop using other text mining packages and embrace quanteda
Three months ago we finished Why R? 2020 conference. One of the memorable moments of the conference were invited highlighted talks! Today we would like to remind you about the talk by Kenneth Benoit (from London School of Economics). The video from the recording is at the end of the post. The text analysis package quanteda is now a mature packa...
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Upcoming Why R Webinar – Integrating Rshiny and REDCap
This Thursday, January 7th at 7 pm UTC, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we will be delighted to host Christopher Maronga, Data Manager, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (Kenya). He will be speaking about innovative open-source approaches to automating research data management: Integrating Rshiny and REDCap! Christopher will answer al...
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