Publications by R Views
Exploratory Functional PCA with Sparse Data
I have written about the basics of Functional Data Analysis in three prior posts. In Post 1, I used the fda package to introduce the fundamental concept of using basis vectors to represent longitudinal or time series data as a curve in an abstract vector space. In Post 2, I continued to rely on the fda package to show basic FDA descriptive statis...
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June 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred ninety-seven new packages made it to CRAN in June. Here are my selections for the “Top 40” in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. The Medicine category includes multiple packages for medical reporting and table building. ...
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R Views Call for Documentation
We at R Views believe that the R ecosystem, centered around CRAN and Bioconductor, is the world’s largest open repository of statistical knowledge. R packages provide implementations and examples for a tremendous number of statistical methods, procedures, and algorithms. Yet, the virtual library of the R ecosystem is far from being complete. Th...
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R / Medicine 2021
R/Medicine 2021, the premier conference for the use of R in clinical applications is less than two weeks away! This conference reflects the increasing importance of data science, computational statistics and machine learning to clinical applications, and emphasizes the effectiveness of the R language as a vehicle for making data driven medicine a...
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July 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred eighty-three new packages stuck to CRAN in July. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Although I don’t have any formal specification for these categories, I do my best to main my subjective se...
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A Guide to Binge Watching R / Medicine 2021
R / Medicine is a big deal. This year, the conference grew by 13% with 665 people from over 60 countries signing up for the virtual event which was held last month. 34% percent of the registrants were from outside of the United States and 17% identified as physicians. The conference is now an established international event where experts report ...
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August 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred sixty new packages covering a wide array of topics made it to CRAN in August. I thought I would emphasize the breadth of topics by expanding the number of categories organizing my “Top 40” selections beyond core categories that appear month after month. Here are my picks in fourteen categories: Archaeology, Computational Methods, ...
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FDA and the Dynamics of Curves
An elegant application of Functional Data Analysis is to model longitudinal data as a curve and then study the curve’s dynamics. For example, in pharmacokinetics and other medical studies analyzing multiple measurements of drug or protein concentrations in blood samples, it may be interest to determine if the concentrations in subjects undergoi...
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A beginner’s guide to Shiny modules
This post by Emily Riederer is the winning entry in our recent Call for Documentation contest. Emily is a Senior Analytics Manager at Capital One where she leads a team building internal analytical tools including R packages, datamarts, and Shiny apps. Outside of work, Emily can be found sharing more code and ideas about analytics on her website,...
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September 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
Two hundred twenty new packages stuck to CRAN in September. Here are my “Top 40” picks in fourteen categories: Art, Computational Methods, Data, Econometrics, Finance and Insurance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks and Graphs, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Art rfishdraw v0.1.0: Automatically gen...
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