Publications by R Views
February 2017 New Package Picks
One hundred and forty-five new packages were added to CRAN in February. Here are 47 interesting packages organized into five categories; Biostatistics, Data, Data Science, Statistics and Utilities. Biostatistics BaTFLED3D v0.1.7: Implements a machine learning algorithm to make predictions and determine interactions in data that varies along thr...
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Some Random Weekend Reading
Few of us have enough time to read, and most of us already have depressingly deep stacks of material that we would like to get through. However, sometimes a random encounter with something interesting is all that it takes to regenerate enthusiasm. Just in case you are not going to get to a book store with a good technical section this weekend, he...
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Some Random Weekend Reading
Few of us have enough time to read, and most of us already have depressingly deep stacks of material that we would like to get through. However, sometimes a random encounter with something interesting is all that it takes to regenerate enthusiasm. Just in case you are not going to get to a book store with a good technical section this weekend, he...
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R and Singularity
R (https://www.r-project.org) is a premier system for statistical and scientific computing and data science. At its core, R is a very carefully curated high-level interface to low-level numerical libraries. True to this principle, R packages have greatly expanded the scope and number of these interfaces over the years, among them interfaces to a ...
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R and Singularity
R (https://www.r-project.org) is a premier system for statistical and scientific computing and data science. At its core, R is a very carefully curated high-level interface to low-level numerical libraries. True to this principle, R packages have greatly expanded the scope and number of these interfaces over the years, among them interfaces to a ...
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March ’17 Tips and Tricks
This month’s Tips and Tricks focus is on file navigation. Many of these tips are straightforward – more tip than trick – but they can save quite a bit of time and frustration. Open Recent Please don’t spend time navigating through your folder structure to find a recent project or file. Go to File/Function RStudio automatically indexes a...
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March ’17 Tips and Tricks
This month’s Tips and Tricks focus is on file navigation. Many of these tips are straightforward – more tip than trick – but they can save quite a bit of time and frustration. Open Recent Please don’t spend time navigating through your folder structure to find a recent project or file. Go to File/Function RStudio automatically indexes a...
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Organizing DataFest the tidy way
Organizing an event can be a full-time task in and of its own. I have been organizing ASA DataFest for six years at Duke, and over this time, the number of participants has grown from 23 students from Duke only, to 360 students from seven area schools this year! First, a bit about ASA DataFest: ASA DataFest is a data “hackathon” for students ...
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Organizing DataFest the tidy way
Organizing an event can be a full-time task in and of its own. I have been organizing ASA DataFest for six years at Duke, and over this time, the number of participants has grown from 23 students from Duke only, to 360 students from seven area schools this year! First, a bit about ASA DataFest: ASA DataFest is a data “hackathon” for students ...
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Solving Data Science’s First Mile Problem
At data.world, we are out to solve the “first mile problem of data science”: helping people obtain and understand the data sets they need. Everybody starts here whether they are analyzing their fantasy football league or working on the Zika pandemic. But unfortunately, as Professor Eric Schwartz at the University of Michigan said to me recent...
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