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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. [This article was first published on Mirai Solutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.We are happy to share our virtual workshop experience at e-Rum 2020, including materials and recordings.Mirai Solutions and Vanlog, organizing partners of e-Rum2020, delivered two connected, albeit independent, workshops, telling a full story about making your R work(flows) production-ready. Starting from a simple Shiny app structured in modules and packaged with golem, as described ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. [This article was first published on Mirai Solutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. e-Rum2020 conference connects many hundreds of R enthusiasts in virtual space! With the Covid-19 pandemic turning plans upside down on a global scale, what should have happened at the end of May in Milano as eRum2020 had to be converted into a virtual event from June 17-20, and was as such ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. [This article was first published on Mirai Solutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. XLConnect 1.0.1 now available from We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 1.0.1. This release is mainly a maintenance release and comes with the following changes: Upgrade to Apache POI 4.1 Adapt Java implementation to make use of Java 8 and remove some dependencies Remove dependency on XLConnectJars, download required ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. [This article was first published on Mirai Solutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. We have gathered interesting COVID-19 resources and made them easily accessible within a single gallery website. The Data Science community is showing a great spirit of collaboration, extensively contributing to the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic by finding new and creative ways to analyze, visualize and communicate data. Many such resources are ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. The European R conference will visit Milan in 2020! Mirai Solutions is delighted to actively support and participate in the organization of the event. The European R Users Meeting (eRum) is a biennial conference, taking place in Europe during those years when the useR is held overseas. It is a unique chance for R practitioners to get together, exchange experiences, broaden their knowledge around R and initiate collaborations with like-minded people. After Poznan in 2016, and Budapest in 2018, the 2020 edition will take place in Milan, Italy, through May 27-30, as announced officially by ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. We are happy to announce the R package compareWith, providing user-friendly RStudio addins that simplify diff and merge tasks. Just ahead of the upcoming useR!2019 Toulouse, where Miraier Nikki will be introducing the package in a short talk during one of the lightning sessions (Thursday morning – July 11), we are pleased to put this small utility out here, which has brought some noticeable enhancement to our day-to-day R development process over the past year. Integration of version control tools in R and RStudio is still significantly behind what is desirable. With the uprise of ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. Following on the recent CRAN release ofrTRNG, it’stime to show its features and usage more in detail. rTRNG isa new package for advanced parallel Random Number Generation in R. It relieson TRNG (Tina’s Random NumberGenerator), a state-of-the-art C++ pseudo-random number generator library forsequential and parallel Monte Carlo simulations. In particular, parallelrandom number generators provided by TRNG can be manipulated by jump andsplit operations. These allow to jump ahead by an arbitrary number of stepsand to split a sequence into any desired sub-sequence(s), thus enablingtechniques such as block-splitting and leapfrogging suitable to parallelalgorithms. Background and Motivation ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. After dwelling happily on our GitHub repositories for an extended period of time, rTRNG has now finally made it to CRAN. We are very happy to get this out just ahead of the R in Finance in Chicago, where the functionality had been show-cased with an applied example two years ago.The main changes since then are related to dependency upgrades and other maintenance, so if you watched the package presentation at useR!2017 and have tried it out before, it will likely feel very familiar.In case you’ve never heard about it, no worries, we will be ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mirai Solutions. We are pleased to announce the release of XLConnect 0.2-14, now available from CRAN and from our GitHub repository. This release is mainly a maintenance release and comes with the following changes: The following example illustrates the use of XLConnect to produce a simple report: require(XLConnect) # Create new Excel workbook wb loadWorkbook("earthquakes.xlsx", create = TRUE) # Create worksheet to hold data targetSheet "Earthquakes" createSheet(wb, name = targetSheet) # Export earthquake data writeWorksheet(wb, data = quakes, sheet = targetSheet) # Create cell style to color events with a magnitude >= 6.0 on the # Richter ... Read More