Publications by R Views
Skimming #rstats on Twitter
Even when filtering by the relatively sober #rstats hashtag, I find twitter to be the stream of consciousness of an undisciplined collective mind: disjoint and ephemeral. Nevertheless, on any given day some useful R resources float by, and it is frequently the case that interesting items disappear downstream before I can record them. Here are a f...
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Calling R From Python With rpy2
This post on R Views is about… Python! Surprising, I know. Python has several well-written packages for statistics and data science, but CRAN, R’s central repository, contains thousands of packages implementing sophisticated statistical algorithms that have been field-tested over many years. Thanks to the rpy2 package, Pythonistas can take ad...
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April: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
Computational Methods hmer v1.0.1: Provides objects and functions for Bayes Linear emulation and history matching, including functions for automated training of emulators, diagnostic functions to ensure suitability, and a variety of methods for generating waves of points. There is a vignette Demo of the package, an Emulation and History matching ...
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Frank’s R Workflow
Frank Harrell’s new eBook, R Workflow, which aims to: “to foster best practices in reproducible data documentation and manipulation, statistical analysis, graphics, and reporting” is an ambitious document that is notable on multiple levels. To begin with, the workflow itself is much more than a simple progression of logical steps. This wor...
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May 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred seventy-nine new packages made it to CRAN in May. Here are my “Top 40” picks in twelve categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Machine Learning, Networks, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods graDiEnt v1.0.1: Implements the derivative-free, optim-sty...
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R is for actuaRies
Dr Maria Prokofieva is a member of the R / Business working group which is promoting the use of R in accounting, auditing, and actuarial work. She is also a professor at the Victoria University Business School in Australia and works with CPA Australia. What is actuarial science Actuarial data science lies at the intersection of math and business...
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Shiny showcase at rstudio::conf(2022)
Beginning with the invitation-only 2016 Shiny Developer Conference, Shiny has played a prominent part in all RStudio conferences, and rstudio::conf(2022) is no exception. Two workshops and eighteen talks showcase Shiny’s multiple, ever-increasing capabilities. What started out as a way to introduce R’s interactive statistical computations to ...
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June 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred eighty-nine new packages made it to CRAN in June. Here are my “Top 40” selections in eleven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualizations. Computational Methods itp v1.2.0: Implements the interpolate, truncate, project roo...
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Some R Conferences for 2022
The 2022 R Conference season is already underway. Here is a list of upcoming conferences that we know about. If we have missed your conference, please write to us with the details. We will update our list as we receive more information. April (27 – 29) on-line and free – Appsilon Shiny Conference will bring together members from the global c...
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The R Formula Method: The Bad Parts
R’s model formula infrastructure was discussed in my previous post. Despite the elegance and convenience of the formula method, there are some aspects that are limiting. Limitations to Extensibility The model formula interface does have some limitations: It can be kludgy with many operations on many variables (e.g., log transforming 50 variab...
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