Packages

• 2019/05/23 one function a day: multiway tables with ftable
  it´s usual to make confusion tables or cross tables when we have vectors of same lenght to compute and cross classify them, but some other issues aris... read more
  


• 2019/05/16 one function a day: filldown
  Sometimes we need to fill the values in a vector with previous values when data is missing. I wrote some convoluted code to do that but, as usual, som... read more
  


• 2018/01/09 My package finally on CRAN
  Finally, my package “spanish” was ready for submission on CRAN and now it’s published! Not a great piece of work, just a place to ga... read more
  


• 2017/12/05 Great packages for understanding your data
  On the first steps of any project, the most usual task is to take a glimpse, figure how our data is distributed, and as fast as possible, be ready for... read more
  


• 2017/12/04 Explainers: when your R model needs to be explained
  When working on Machine Learning for classification and predictive models we tend to use the well known packages as randomforest, caret, xgboost, gbm... read more
  


• 2017/11/21 Geocoding with R and mapZen
  The most widely used service for Geocoding is Google Maps, but you’d hit the limits early in your project if you don’t have a paid account... read more
  


• 2017/11/04 Easy library installing and loading
  I tend to use package managers for library load and management: pacman https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pacman/vignettes/Introduction_to_pacman... read more
  


• 2017/10/16 Spanish Stopwords for tidytext package
  A clever friend of mine says: the main programming language, is not Java or Python but English. So, when you’re searching for help, you’ll... read more
  


• 2017/08/29 Selecting packages while coding
  Sometimes, you must choose a package to achieve some results while you’re coding. Let’s say, you’re wrangling data and noticed you n... read more
  


• 2017/08/07 How to navigate the world of R packages
  One of the most powerful features of R is the vast package echosystem. But there’s more than 11.000 packages just in CRAN, and a thousands more... read more
  


• 2017/07/27 janitor, a good R package for Data Wrangling
  We all know the many hours spent cleaning and wrangling data. Sometimes I think my actual job is not “Data Scientist” but “Data Cleaner”. Data, as you... read more
  


• 2017/07/19 3D chart using rgl library
  Iris is one of the most used data set in R. We’ve seen it in many formats, and broadly used for data manipulation. You could say that there’s nothing... read more
  


• 2017/07/18 managing installation and packages in R: installR & pacman
  Mentioned yesterday the useful library pacman , so a brief comment about it is due. But I’m going to recommend installR for managing updates fir... read more
  


• 2017/07/17 Easy Rstudio add-in management with addinslist package
  When started using Rstudio (some time ago) I had been wondering where the Rstudio Addins were located. There’s a menu option, but It was empty on my m... read more
  


• 2017/07/15 Some essential R packages
  For me, there’s a bunch of packages considered as “essential” ‘cause in the end, sooner or later I use them in any project that involved opening the R... read more