Cleaning up and combining data, a dataset for practice
tldr: I created an open dataset for the explicit practice of data munging. Feel free to use it in assignments, but do mention where you got it from (CC-by-4.0). Also...continue reading.
Monthly Archive: March 2018
R Weekly 2018-11 rstudio::conf 2018, lime
Hello and welcome to this new issue! lime v0.4: The kitten picture edition RStudio conf 2018 Videos 📦 Go Live for More New Pkgs 📦 CRAN textfeatures – Extracts Features...continue reading.
Gold diggers at the Olympics
It came to a close two weeks ago. Over two weeks of obsessive watching everything that moves on skis, skates or boards. My tiny country of the Netherlands won about...continue reading.
Street Crime UK – Shiny App
IntroductionThis is a shiny app to visualize heat maps of Street Crimes across Britain from 2010-12 to 2018-01 and test their spatial pattern.The code for both ui.R and server.R is...continue reading.
Mandalas Colored
Apriétame bien la mano, que un lucero se me escapa entre los dedos (Coda Flamenca, Extremoduro) I have the privilege of being teacher at ESTALMAT, a project run by Spanish...continue reading.
R: simple for complex tasks, complex for simple tasks
When it comes to undertaking complex data science projects, R is the preferred choice for many. Why? Because handling complex tasks is simpler in R than other comparable platforms.Regrettably, the...continue reading.
Edit your bashrc file for a nicer terminal experience
By L. Collado-Torres. If you are working at LIBD or with large data, it’s very likely that it won’t fit in your laptop and that you’ll be using the terminal...continue reading.
Textmate setup (Mac only)
By L. Collado-Torres. For the past 6-7 years I have been using TextMate 2 as my text editor which I’ve found useful for R code, bash, Markdown, etc. You could...continue reading.
Edit your bashrc file for a nicer terminal experience
By L. Collado-Torres. If you are working at LIBD or with large data, it’s very likely that it won’t fit in your laptop and that you’ll be using the terminal...continue reading.
Textmate setup (Mac only)
By L. Collado-Torres. For the past 6-7 years I have been using TextMate 2 as my text editor which I’ve found useful for R code, bash, Markdown, etc. You could...continue reading.
Contributing to the LIBD rstats club
In this blog post Leonardo Collado-Torres explains how to contribute posts to the LIBD rstats club. While some parameters are specific to this blog, you could also use this for...continue reading.
Welcome to the LIBD rstats club!
Welcome to the LIBD rstats club! A few months ago Carrie Wright and Leonardo Collado-Torres started an R + Journal club where we have been meeting every other week to...continue reading.
styler 1.0.1
styler 1.0.1 is now available on CRAN. It is mainly a maintenance release and contains bug fixes and speed improvements. The highlights are: styler 1.0.1 requires tibble 1.4.2 which was...continue reading.
lime v0.4: The Kitten Picture Edition
A new major release of lime has landed on CRAN. lime is an R port of the Python library of the same name by Marco Ribeiro that allows the user...continue reading.
A Baseball Dashboard in Time for Opening Weekend (part one)
JAWS Scrape Hall of Fame Inductee Names WAR Values EDA Save Objects Conclusion References @ctrent I’ve always thought that it’d be fun to debate the @Reds HOF like the real...continue reading.
Contributing to the LIBD rstats club
In this blog post Leonardo Collado-Torres explains how to contribute posts to the LIBD rstats club. While some parameters are specific to this blog, you could also use this for...continue reading.
Welcome to the LIBD rstats club!
Welcome to the LIBD rstats club! A few months ago Carrie Wright and Leonardo Collado-Torres started an R + Journal club where we have been meeting every other week to...continue reading.
styler 1.0.1
styler 1.0.1 is now available on CRAN. It is mainly a maintenance release and contains bug fixes and speed improvements. The highlights are: styler 1.0.1 requires tibble 1.4.2 which was...continue reading.
lime v0.4: The Kitten Picture Edition
A new major release of lime has landed on CRAN. lime is an R port of the Python library of the same name by Marco Ribeiro that allows the user...continue reading.
Binning big data so you can visualise it later
Sometimes I find myself writing some program to count or get some statistic for big data (i.e. too big to … Morecontinue reading.
