The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

Do you want to improve your R skills? Here are my favorite R language resources for users at any level. [This story is part of Computerworld’s “Beginner’s guide to R.” You’ll find links to the whole ...

The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has hosted a four-day workshop, “Statistics for Ecology, Genetics and Genomics Using R” that advanced the participants’ understanding of the role of statistical ...

A few years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can ...

How do I do that in data.table? Find code for dozens of data tasks in this searchable cheat sheet of R data.table and Tidyverse code. Speed. Concise syntax. Backwards compatibility. But especially ...

Predictive analysis refers to the use of historical data and analyzing it using statistics to predict future events. It takes place in seven steps, and these are: defining the project, data collection ...