I’m starting to incorporate more Rcpp in my R work, and so decided to spend some time exploring the Rcpp Gallery. One example by John Merrill caught my eye. He provides a C++ solution to transforming an list of lists into a data frame, and shows impressive speed savings compared to as.data.frame. This got me thinking about how […]
Quirks about running Rcpp on Windows through RStudio This is a quick note about some tribulations I had running Rcpp (v. 0.12.12) code through RStudio (v. 1.0.143) on a Windows 7 box running R (v. 3.3.2). I also have RTools v. 3.4 installed. I fully admit that this may very well be specific to my […]
I’ll often keep non-sensitive data on Dropbox so that I can access it on all my machines without gumming up git. I just wrote a small script to find the Dropbox location on each of my computers automatically. The crucial information is available here, from Dropbox. My small snippet of code is the following: I haven’t […]
Bert Huang has a nice blog talking about poor results of ML/AI algorithms in “wild” data, which echos some of my experience and thoughts. His conclusions are worth thinking about, IMO. 1. Big data is complex data. As we go out and collect more data from a finite world, we’re necessarily going to start collecting […]
Chris Moffit has a nice blog on how to use the transform function in pandas. He provides some (fake) data on sales and asks the question of what fraction of each order is from each SKU. Being a R nut and a tidyverse fan, I thought to compare and contrast the code for the pandas […]
Chris Moffit has a nice blog on how to use the transform function in pandas. He provides some (fake) data on sales and asks the question of what fraction of each order is from each SKU. Being a R nut and a tidyverse fan, I thought to compare and contrast the code for the pandas […]
A collaborator posed an interesting R question to me today. She wanted to do several regressions using different outcomes, with models being computed on different strata defined by a combination of experimental design variables. She then just wanted to extract the p-values for the slopes for each of the models, and then filter the strata […]
I work in an ecosystem that uses Outlook for e-mail. When I have to communicate results with collaborators one of the most frequent tasks I face is to take a tabular output in R (either a summary table or some sort of tabular output) and send it to collaborators in Outlook. One method is certainly […]
One of the most popular posts on this blog has been my attempt to create Kaplan-Meier plots with an aligned table of persons-at-risk below it under the ggplot paradigm. That post was last updated 3 years ago. In the interim, Chris Dardis has built upon these attempts to create a much more stable and feature-rich […]
The package ReporteRs has been getting some play on the interwebs this week, though it’s actually been around for a while. The nice thing about this package is that it allows writing Word and PowerPoint documents in an OS-independent fashion unlike some earlier packages. It also allows the editing of documents by using bookmarks within […]
