Beginner’s guide to machine learning in R (with step-by-step tutorial)

<div style = "width:60%; display: inline-block; float:left; "> If you’re a graduate of economics, psychology, sociology, medicine, biostatistics, ecology, or related fields, you probably have received some training in statistics, but much less...

How To Make A PowerPoint Presentation Using R Markdown

PowerPoint is the most recognized presentation-making software, but it isn’t for everyone. Some may find it packed with unnecessary features, and to some extent that’s true. Microsoft updates it regularly and invents things you never even knew you...

SQL vs. NoSQL for Data Science

Data come in variety of form, at different pace, and at different volume. And if all three criteria define the difference between SQL and NoSQL and there, all three are still irrelevant for data science. My theorem is, that no matter what...

How to use R Markdown (part one)

<div style = "width:60%; display: inline-block; float:left; "> Today I’m excited to share a blog post on how to use R Markdown. R Markdown is a dynamic file format that allows you to make documents containing normal text alongside chunks of...

Making a package from base R files

John C. Nash, retired professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa Arkajyoti Bhattacharjee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur based on communications from Duncan Murdoch 11/06/2021,...

Guidelines for writing good R code

These guidelines are recommendations and are not meant to be obligatory. Many of the principles are useful and help working and collaborating more efficiently with R. Feel free to add your recommendations or remarks in the discussion section below.

10 New books added to Big Book of R

14 January 2022 We’re off to a great start (book wise!) for 2022. Here’s 10 new additions to Big Book of R. Quite a few more paid versions of books in this round and they look good. Thanks to Burak Aydin, Manika Lamba, Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda,...

The Basics of R (in Spanish!)

(¿Quieres más detalles sobre el curso en español? Desplázate hacia abajo.) Hello everyone! This blog post is a bit different from usual posts in that I’d like to make a very exciting announcement about an upcoming course launch. Part of my vision...

Playing Wordle in R

The game Wordle has taken the world (or at least my facebook feed) by storm. It’s a really simple word game that’s a lot like the classic Mastermind. Here are the rules from the Wordle website: The logic behind the … Continue reading →

One of the First Steps to Become a Data Scientist

The post One of the First Steps to Become a Data Scientist appeared first on finnstats. If you want to read the original article, click here One of the First Steps to Become a Data Scientist. One of the First Steps to Become a Data Scientist,...

How To Connect R Shiny to Postgres Database – The Definite Guide

Managing database connections can be messy at times. It’s always easier to read and write to local CSV files. That doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do, as most production environments have data stored in one or multiple databases. As a data...

Top 7 Best R Shiny Books and Courses That Are Completely Free

So, you want to become an R Shiny Developer? 2022 is the year to do it. Learning a new language, library, or framework can be stressful – even expensive at times! That’s why we decided to share the 7 best R Shiny books and courses you can follow...

Little useless-useful R functions – Mastermind board game for R

Playing a simple guessing game with R. It’s called Mastermind game! This game was originally created for two people, but R version will be for single-player mode, when an R developer or R data scientists need a break. The gameplay…Read more ›

Why R? 2021 Conference Summary

The fifth edition of Why R? Conference (2021.whyr.pl) finished last week. The post presents the highlights of the conference and the overall summary. You can find all videos from the conference on youtube.com/WhyRFoundationVideos channel. ...

Advent of 2021, Day 10 – Working with data frames

Series of Apache Spark posts: Dec 01: What is Apache Spark Dec 02: Installing Apache Spark Dec 03: Getting around CLI and WEB UI in Apache Spark Dec 04: Spark Architecture – Local and cluster mode Dec 05: Setting up Spark Cluster Dec 06: Setting...

Detecting topics in mails, tweets, etc.: How to create a text classification algorithm in R

This tutorial might be for you if, e.g.: You have a lot of customer e-mails, or online-reviews on sales platforms or app stores for your product, etc., and you want to have a statistic based on the content of the texts: How many customers are...

Birmingham R talks about the difficulties of socializing in an online space

One of the difficult parts of running a group in an online space is maintaining social interactions that you would normally foster with in-person meetups. R Consortium talks to Adnan... The post Birmingham R talks about the difficulties of...

Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks

Recurrent Neural Networks, This is a follow-up to one of our previous posts, which you can read here if you missed it. Let’s look into Recurrent Neural Networks and the different types of issues that they... The post Introduction to Recurrent...

R Data Types

A data type of a variable specifies the type of data that is stored inside that variable. For example, x

Creating Successful R User Groups in Abuja, Nigeria

<div style = "width:60%; display: inline-block; float:left; "> Bilikisu Aderinto, Founder/Organizer of the Abuja R User Group and R-Ladies Abuja, talks about the lack of R User groups in her area, and her desire to start one, leading... The post...