Author: Mouselimis Lampros

Back in September 2016 I implemented the ClusterR package. One of the algorithms included in ClusterR was the ‘Partition Around Medoids’ (Cluster_Medoids) algorithm which was based on the paper “Anja...continue reading.

This blog post is a slight modification of the R package Vignette and shows how to use the Rcpp Armadillo version of the fastGLCM R package. The fastGLCM R package...continue reading.

This blog post is a slight modification of the R package Vignette. The VMDecomp R package is an RcppArmadillo implementation of the Matlab Code for Variational Mode Decomposition (1- and...continue reading.

This blog post (which is a slight modification of both package Vignettes) explains the functionality of the IceSat2R R package and shows how to use the OpenAltimetry API from within...continue reading.

In this blog post I’ll explain the functionality of the PlanetNICFI R package based on a change detection use case. The official website of NICFI (Norway’s International Climate and Forest...continue reading.

In this blog post I’ll explain how to use the CopernicusDEM R package based on a use case of the Movebank animal tracking data. I picked animal tracking data because...continue reading.

This blog post explains the functionality of the fitbitViz R package. If you own any of the Fitbit activity trackers you can take advantage of this package to visualize your...continue reading.

In this blog post, I’ll explain how to perform Language Identification with the fastText R package and I’ll create a benchmark by including other language identification R packages, i.e. cld2,...continue reading.

In this blog post, I’ll explain the updated version of the fastText R package. This R package is an interface to the fasttext library for efficient learning of word representations...continue reading.

In this blog post, I’ll explain the new functionality of the OpenImageR package, SLIC and SLICO superpixels (Simple Linear Iterative Clustering) and their applicability based on an IJSR article. The...continue reading.

This blog post illustrates the new functionality of the OpenImageR package (Gabor Feature Extraction). The Gabor features have been used extensively in image analysis and processing (Character and Face recognition)....continue reading.

In this blog post, I’ll explain how someone can take advantage of Singularity to make R or Python packages available as an image file to users. This is a necessity...continue reading.

As of 2018-06-17 the elmNN package was archived and due to the fact that it was one of the machine learning functions that I used when I started learning R...continue reading.

This blog post discuss the new functionality, which is added in the textTinyR package (version 1.1.0). I’ll explain some of the functions by using the data and pre-processing steps of...continue reading.

The nmslibR package is a wrapper of NMSLIB, which according to the authors “… is a similarity search library and a toolkit for evaluation of similarity search methods. The goal...continue reading.

This blog post is about my newly released RGF package (the blog post consists mainly of the package Vignette). The RGF package is a wrapper of the Regularized Greedy Forest...continue reading.

For the last two months, I had participated in a machine learning competition organized by Kaggle (platform for predictive modeling and analytics), where I ended up in the top 1...continue reading.

Since I submitted the geojsonR package I was interested in running geospatial MongoDB queries using GeoJson data. I decided to use PyMongo (through the reticulate package) after opening two Github...continue reading.

I recently released an (other one) R package on CRAN – fuzzywuzzyR – which ports the fuzzywuzzy python library in R. “fuzzywuzzy does fuzzy string matching by using the Levenshtein...continue reading.

This blog post is about my recently released package on CRAN, geojsonR. The following notes and examples are based mainly on the package Vignette. “GeoJSON is an open standard format...continue reading.