R i neki novi paketi

Some New R Packages

New R packages keep rolling into CRAN at a prodigious rate: 184 in May, 195 in June and July looks like it will continue the trend. I spent some time sorting through them and have picked out a few that that are interesting from a data science point of view.

That’s like so random! Monte Carlo for Data Science

Another great turnout at the DataPhilly meetup last night. Was great to see all you random data nerds!

nzelect 0.2.0 on CRAN

The nzelect R package which I first introduced in a blog post in April is now available on CRAN. The version number is 0.2.0.

The difference from version 0.1.0 is sizeable – all the 2013 census data has been removed and is now in a companion package, nzcensus. This is for ease of development and maintenance, and to allow organisations that aren’t interested in the election results still to use the census data. It also keeps the package size within CRAN guidelines. I’ll write about nzcensus in a separate post; its coverage has somewhat expanded from when I last blogged about combining census and election data.nzcensus is only available from GitHub due to its size.

Notes from the Kölner R meeting, 9 July 2016

Last Thursday the Cologne R user group came together again. This time, our two speakers arrived from Bavaria, to talk about Spark and R Server.