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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. One hundred eighty-nine new packages made it to CRAN in June. Here are my “Top 40” selections in eleven categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Medicine, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualizations. Computational Methods itp v1.2.0: Implements the interpolate, truncate, project root-finding algorithm developed by Oliveira & Takahashi (2021) ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Beginning with the invitation-only 2016 Shiny Developer Conference, Shiny has played a prominent part in all RStudio conferences, and rstudio::conf(2022) is no exception. Two workshops and eighteen talks showcase Shiny’s multiple, ever-increasing capabilities. What started out as a way to introduce R’s interactive statistical computations to the web has grown into a ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Dr Maria Prokofieva is a member of the R / Business working group which is promoting the use of R in accounting, auditing, and actuarial work. She is also a professor at the Victoria University Business School in Australia and works with CPA Australia. What is actuarial science Actuarial data science lies ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. One hundred seventy-nine new packages made it to CRAN in May. Here are my “Top 40” picks in twelve categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Machine Learning, Networks, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods graDiEnt v1.0.1: Implements the derivative-free, optim-style Stochastic Quasi-Gradient Differential Evolution optimization algorithm published in ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Frank Harrell’s new eBook, R Workflow, which aims to: “to foster best practices in reproducible data documentation and manipulation, statistical analysis, graphics, and reporting” is an ambitious document that is notable on multiple levels. To begin with, the workflow itself is much more than a simple progression of logical steps. This workflow ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Computational Methods hmer v1.0.1: Provides objects and functions for Bayes Linear emulation and history matching, including functions for automated training of emulators, diagnostic functions to ensure suitability, and a variety of methods for generating waves of points. There is a vignette Demo of the package, an Emulation and History matching Handbook, and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. This post on R Views is about… Python! Surprising, I know. Python has several well-written packages for statistics and data science, but CRAN, R’s central repository, contains thousands of packages implementing sophisticated statistical algorithms that have been field-tested over many years. Thanks to the rpy2 package, Pythonistas can take advantage of the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Even when filtering by the relatively sober #rstats hashtag, I find twitter to be the stream of consciousness of an undisciplined collective mind: disjoint and ephemeral. Nevertheless, on any given day some useful R resources float by, and it is frequently the case that interesting items disappear downstream before I can record ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, 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. Two hundred and six new packages stuck to CRAN in March. Here are my “Top 40” selections in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Finance, Game Theory, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods RCDT v1.1.0: Provides functions to perform 2D Delaunay triangulation, constrained or unconstrained, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. This is a guest post from Gary Hutson, lead of Machine Learning at Crisp Thinking, a company that provides AI solutions to moderate and detect offensive and abusive content online. His website is available at https://hutsons-hacks.info/ and he can be reached through Twitter, @StatsGary. MLDataR package motivation I love all things Machine Learning. The MLDataR package was driven by the need to have example datasets across the healthcare system for machine learning problems. I have been a machine learning practitioner for over nine years; however, I still find it interesting to explore new examples and ... Read More