It’s that time of year when we need to start thinking about what R Conferences we would like to (and can!) attend. To help plan your (ahem) work trips, we thought it would be useful to list the upcoming main attractions. We maintain a list of upcoming rstats conferences.
Read more about Upcoming R conferences (2018)
Can’t be bothered reading, tell me now. Host RStudio server on an azure instance. Configure the instance to access RStudio with a nice url. Getting started: Azure is cloud computing framework provided by Microsoft, the same idea as AWS by Amazon.
Read more about Hosting RStudio Server on Azure
Today we are happy to announce our Stan contest. Something we feel very strongly at Jumping Rivers is giving back to the community. We have benefited immensely from hard work by numerous people, so when possible, we try to give something back.
Read more about Competition: StanCon 2018 ticket
The {plotly} package. A godsend for interactive documents, dashboard and presentations. For such documents, there is no doubt that anyone would prefer a plot created in {plotly} rather than {ggplot2}. Why? Using {plotly} gives you neat and crucially interactive options at the top, whereas {ggplot2} objects are static.
Read more about Comparing plotly & ggplotly plot generation times
Stan is freedom-respecting, open-source software for facilitating statistical inference at the frontiers of applied statistics. Or to put it another way, it makes Bayesian inference fast and (a bit) easier.
Read more about Official StanCon Sponsor
As time goes on, your R scripts are probably getting longer and more complicated, right? Timing parts of your script could save you precious time when re-running code over and over again. Today I’m going to go through the 4 main functions for doing so.
Read more about Timing
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