Publications by mark
The use of R in official statistics conference 2018
On September 12-14 the 6th international conference on the use of R in official statistics (#uRos2018) will take place at the Dutch National Statistical Office in Den Haag, the Netherlands. The conference is aimed at producers and users of official statistics from government, academia, and industry. The conference is modeled after the useR! confe...
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stringdist 0.9.5.0: now with C API
Version 0.9.5.0 of stringdist is accepted on CRAN (binaries for non-linux OSs will be available in a few days). The main new feature, with a huge thanks to our awesome new contributor Chris Muir, is that we made it easy to call stringdist functionality from your package’s C or C++ code. The main steps to get it done are: Make sure to add strin...
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The program for uRos2018 is online
The uRos2018 conference is aimed at professionals and academics who are involved in producing or consuming official (government) statistics. We are happy to announce that we recently posted the full program of the 6th international conference on the use of R in official Statistics (uRos2018) on our website. In summary: Six tutorials in the areas...
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Add a static pdf vignette to an R package
Most vignettes are built when a package is built, but there are occasions where you just want to include a pdf. For example when you want to include a paper. Of course there is a package supporting this, but in this post I will show you how to do it yourself with ease. The idea is very simple: vignettes can be in LaTeX, and it is possible to incl...
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uRos2019: tutorials, keynote speakers, registration and call for papers!
The 7th use of R in Official Statistics conference is the event for all things R in the production and use of government statistics. The 7th installment of this conference will take place from 20 to 21 May 2019 at the National Institute of Statistics in Bucharest, Romania. Follow on Twitter: @uRosconf Keynote Speakers We are very proud to annou...
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gower 0.2.0 is on CRAN
A new version of R package gower has just been released on CRAN. Thanks to our new contributor David Turner who was kind enough to provide a pull request, gower now also computes weighted gower distances. From the NEWS file: gower_dist and gower_topn gain weight argument for weighted matching (thanks to David Turner) gower_dist and gower_topn ga...
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Checking reverse dependencies: the tiny way
The tools package that comes with base R makes checking reverse dependencies super easy. Build your package tarball (the pkg_x.y.z.tar.gz file). R CMD build /your/package/location It is a good idea to make sure that the tarball is in a dedicated directory, because the next step will download and install reverse dependencies in the directory wh...
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Make your package spherical
Larger packages typically consist of functions that are visible to the users (exported functions) and functions that are used by the exported functions, but that are invisible to the user. For example: # exported, user-visible function inch2cm <- function(x){ x*conversion_factor("inch") } # not exported function, package-internal conversion_fac...
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lintools 0.1.3 is on CRAN
Version 0.1.3 of the lintools package was accepted on CRAN today. This version brings a few internal improvements and switches the testing suite to the tinytest test infrastructure. lintools is provides basic manipulations of linear systems of equalities and inequalities including: variable elimination (Gaussian elimination, Fourier-Motzkin elimi...
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Call for abstracts and tutorials: use of R in official statistics 2020 in Vienna
The eight international conference on the Use of R in Official Statistics (#uRos2020) will take place place from 6 to 8 May 2020 at Statistics Austria, the Austrian office of National Statistics. The meeting in a nutshell 4-5 May: unconfUROS hackathon and General R tutorials for beginners 6 May: Specific R tutorials 7-8 May: uRos2020 Conference ...
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