The example I present here is a little silly, yet it illustrates how to join tables with data.table in R. Mapping old data to new dataCategories in general are never fixed, they always change at some point. And then the trouble starts with the data. Fo...
Last week's Cologne R user group meeting was the best attended so far. Well, we had a great line up indeed. Matt Dowle came over from London to give an introduction to the data.table package. He was joined by his collaborator Arun Srinivasan, who is ba...
We are constantly crunching through large amounts of data and designing unique and innovative ways to process large datasets on a single node and use distributed computing only when single node computing becomes time consuming and less effici...
I really should make it a habit of using data.table. The speed and simplicity of this R package are astonishing. Here is a simple example: I have a data frame showing incremental claims development by line of business and origin year. Now I would lik...
Transforming data sets with R is usually the starting point of my data analysis work. Here is a scenario which comes up from time to time: transform subsets of a data frame, based on context given in one or a combination of columns. As an example I use...
Iris versicolor (Source: Wikipedia)R is a language, as Luis Apiolaza pointed out in his recent post. This is absolutely true, and learning a programming language is not much different from learning a foreign language. It takes time and a lot of pr...
