Tag: News

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on YIHAN WU. The knitr and rmarkdown packages are used in conjunction with pandoc to convert R code and figures to a variety of formats including PDF, and word. Here, I’m exploring how to convert HTML back to markdown format. This post came about when I was searching how to convert XML to markdown, which I still haven’t found an easy way to do. Pandoc is not the only way to convert HTML to markdown (see turndown, html2text) Pandoc is packaged within RStudio and on Windows, the executables are located within Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc. The rmarkdown package ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Learning Machines. Have you ever thought about why the definition of a function in R is different from many other programming languages? The part that causes the biggest difficulties (especially for beginners of R) is that you state the name of the function at the beginning and use the assignment operator – as if functions were like any other data type, like vectors, matrices or data frames… Congratulations! You just encountered one of the big ideas of functional programming: functions are indeed like any other data type, they are not special – or in programming lingo, functions ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. Our linl package for writing LaTeX letter with (R)markdown had a fairly minor release today, following up on the previous release well over a year ago. This version just contains one change which Mark van der Loo provided a few months ago with a clean PR. As another user was just bitten the same issue when using an included letterhead – which was fixed but unreleased – we decided it was time for a release. So there it is. linl makes it easy to write letters in markdown, with some extra bells and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Brian Lee Yung Rowe. I will be pushing a new version of futile.logger (version 1.5) to CRAN in January. This version introduces a number of enhancements and fixes some bugs. It will also contain at least one breaking change. I am making the release process public, since the package is now used in a number of other packages. If you use futile.logger, this is your opportunity to influence the direction of the package and prepare for changes. Please use the github issue tracker for discussion. There are two main themes for enhancements: 1) integration with the signal ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Tinniam V Ganesh. The second edition of my book ‘Deep Learning from first principles:Second Edition- In vectorized Python, R and Octave’, is now available on Amazon, in both paperback ($14.99)  and kindle ($9.99/Rs449/-)  versions. Since this book is almost 70% code, all functions, and code snippets have been formatted to use the fixed-width font ‘Lucida Console’. In addition line numbers have been added to all code snippets. This makes the code more organized and much more readable. I have also fixed typos in the book The book includes the following chapters Table of Contents Preface 4 Introduction 6 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Angel Sevilla Camins' Blog. Summary Are you a data scientist who only wants to focus on modelling and coding and not on setting up a GPU cluster? Then, this blog might be interesting for you. We developed an automated pipeline using gitlab and Kubernetes that is able to run code in two GPU environments, GCP and bare-metal; no need to worry about drivers, Kubernetes cluster creation or deletion. The only thing that you should do is to push your code and it runs in a GPU!Source code for both the custom Docker images and the Kubernetes objects ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Jakob Gepp. We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those functions, if they are within a package. Up till the 24th December I will present one function each day from helfRlein. So, on the 15th day of Christmas my true love ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Marcia Walker. Singer-songwriter David Wilcox kept me out of prison. That’s not a country song gone bad – it’s a real-life experience. Almost two decades ago, I attended a David Wilcox concert in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. His songs have always hooked my heart, and one in particular caught my attention that evening: “Rule Number One.” The song tells the tale of a first date gone awry. One party to the date seemed charming, funny, and attractive until – horrors – he was rude to the waiter. The song gives great advice: “If he’s rude to ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. In case you missed them, here are some articles from November of particular interest to R users. David Gerard assesses the plausibility of a key plot point in 'Jurassic Park' with simulations in R. In-database R is available in Azure SQL Database for private preview.  Introducing AzureR, a new suite of R packages for managing Azure resources in R. The AzureRMR package provides an interface for Resource Manager. Roundup of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science news from November 2018. You can now use the AI capabilities of Microsoft Cognitive Services within a container ... Read More

Feed: Hazelcast Blog. Author: Matt Wolpin. Each month the Hazelcast team writes and curates articles to help executives, architects and developers stay up-to-date on the latest news and information. With that in mind, here are five “must-reads” as determined by their popularity on social media. The Human Side of Microservices Armağan Amcalar, head of software engineering at unu GmbH, spoke about the human side of microservices at Codemotion Berlin 2018. InfoQ interviewed Amcalar to get his unique perspective on software architecture, microservices and DevOps. Apereo CAS High-Availability with Hazelcast and Kubernetes Misagh Moayyed, software engineer and IAM consultant at Unicon, ... Read More