Big news. RStudio recently started certifying trainers in three areas: the tidyverse, Shiny and teaching. To be certified to teach a topic you have to pass the exam for that topic and the teaching exam. Even bigger news. Four of your lovely Jumping Rivers trainers are now certified to teach at least one topic!
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You’ll be pleased to know that Jumping rivers are running R training courses up and down the UK, in London, Newcastle, Belfast and Edinburgh. I’ve put together a quick summary of the courses available through til the end of the year. They are sorted by place then date.
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This blog post has two goals. Investigate the {bench} package for timing R functions. Consequently explore the different algorithms in the {digest} package using {bench}. What Is {Digest}? The {digest} package provides a hash function to summarise R objects.
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Earlier this month I attended the inaugural SatRday Newcastle. This was my first time attending a SatRday event, and I had a really enjoyable day. The event was sponsored by Newcastle University, Sage, RStudio and Jumping Rivers. There were over 100 attendees from across the U.K.
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One of the great things about R, is the myriad of packages. Packages are typically installed via CRAN, Bioconductor and GitHub. But how often do we think about what we are installing? Do we pay attention or just install when something looks neat? Do we think about security or just take it that everything is secure?
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When discussing how to speed up slow R code, my first question is what is your computer spec? It’s always surprised me that people are wondering why analysing big data is slow, yet they are using a five-year-old cheap laptop. Spending a few thousand pounds would often make their problems disappear.
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