Monthly Archive: July 2018

Why R Conference

This July we had the great honor to present mlr and its ecosystem at the Why R 2018 Conference in Wroclaw in Poland. You can find the slides here. We...continue reading.

A First Look at NIMBLE

Writing a domain-specific language (DSL) is a powerful and fairly common method for extending the R language. Both ggplot2 and dplyr, for example, are DSLs. (See Hadley’s chapter in Advanced...continue reading.

Rough looking figures from R

A recent blog post regarding data visualization had some barplots I liked the look of (aesthetically…for research purposes, they wouldn’t be suitable). They look as if they’ve be coloured in...continue reading.