It looks like R is getting an official pipe operator (ref). R doesn’t work under an RFC process, so we hear about these things and they are discussed on the R-devel mailing list. I’ve written on this topic before (ref), and I have taped some new comments. This sort of […]
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Nina and I are cleaning up websites, links, and projects. I would like to take the opportunity re-share my old genetic art project through a short demonstration video. Read more about the Genetic Art Project here.
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Win Vector LLC’s Dr. Nina Zumel has had great success applying y-aware methods to machine learning problems, and working out the detailed cross-validation methods needed to make y-aware procedures safe. I thought I would try our hand at y-aware neural net or deep learning methods here.
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For data science projects I recommend using source control or version control, and committing changes at a very fine level of granularity. This means checking in possibly broken code, and the possibly weak commit messages (so when working in a shared project, you may want a private branch or second […]
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Here is an example how easy it is to use cdata to re-layout your data. Tim Morris recently tweeted the following problem (corrected). Please will you take pity on me #rstats folks? I only want to reshape two variables x & y from wide to long! Starting with: d xa […]
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With all of the excitement surrounding cdata style control table based data transforms (the cdata ideas being named as the “replacements” for tidyr‘s current methodology, by the tidyr authors themselves!) I thought I would take a moment to describe how they work.
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Recently ran into something interesting in the R macros/quasi-quotation/substitution/syntax front: Romain François: “.@_lionelhenry reveals planned double curly syntax At #satRdayParis as a possible replacement, addition to !! and enquo()” It appears !! is no longer the last word in substitution (it certainly wasn’t the first).
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