R
Articles around the R programming language.
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I like working with R in a SQLServer environment. You sometimes you have situations where developing certain data manipulations is a hassle in T-SQL. Specifically when you want to do advanced string manipulations or complex regex lookups. In such a case using the stringi package could provide a huge help. There is a nice (recently…
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There is an interesting article on R-bloggers on Microsoft efforts around R. I do agree with the content and I think that MS makes great effort to keep the R-people happy on the Windows platform. In my daily R-life I do all my coding in R-Studio: prototyping, developing and testing. For me it is still the…
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This year the useR conference was held in Brussels. There were more than 1000 people of over 50 nationalities and plenty of speakers and sessions. Great keynotes by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Norm Matloff. I also enjoyed the NLP sessions from Taylor Arnold & Lauren Tilton and a great session from Kylie A. Bemis on the matter package. All, the sessions…
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R Tools for Visual Studio I have been using R-Studio for a few years now to do my R coding and I like it a lot. It is a very good IDE for all kinds of R-related work. It integrates nicely with Shiny, markdown, etc… Since a few weeks I am using Visual Studio with…
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On December 7th 2016 Microsoft launched its R Server 9.0 version. For more details see the article on the MS blog. And for those who do not know yet, the first (non-beta) version of RStudio has been released, read more here.
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useR! 2016 On June 28th 2016, Microsoft announced some updates on Microsoft R Client, their free, community-supported, data science tool for building high performance analytics using the full set of ScaleR functions. After the useR! 2016 conference (June 27 – 30), Microsoft’s Channel 9 posted a lot of interesting material on their site. What is so special…
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The content There is an interesting course on Credit Risk Modeling in R on DataCamp. It covers the classic (machine learning) models to determine the risk in giving people a loan. The subject is simple enough to understand so you do not need to spend a lot of time diving into the subject matter. The course…
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Data Science Coursera JHU Johns Hopkins University has an interesting MOOC on Coursera. We asked ourselves if it is worth doing? I did the test.. The whole program is based on 9 modules and a capstone project, I will provide a short description of each and give my impressions on the track I took from May 2015 until January…
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R Server In the beginning of this year Microsoft launched its R server. It is based on the products from Revolution Analytics they bought last year. They basically have two versions of the product: A commercial version called Microsoft R Server (MRS) and an open source one called Microsoft R Open (MRO). The last one…
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