I was interested by the crackdown described here and decided to see what would happen if I deleted a few old questions. We’re talking four questions, 10+ years old, of questionable current relevance. Some I could not delete and so I recommended them for closing on the basis of their age. Sure enough, I got a 24-hour ban with a nasty message from the site, and got the dunce cap “Disciplined” added to my profile.
I was never a power user on #stackoverflow in the first place, and nobody was looking to me for advice, but this was enough to prompt me to delete my account. I’m not interested in having my name associated with this kind of organization. Frankly, I’m also not a strong enough #rstats programmer to take the risk of getting coding advice from AI: if it’s badly wrong, which tends to happen at least in other domains — rarely enough that people let down their guard, but often enough to be nonignorable — I might not know. So the value proposition of using their site is not what it was before, and there’s really no reason for me to stay.
Learn efficient ways to collapse text by group in R! Explore base R's aggregate(), dplyr's group_by() and summarise(), and data.table's grouping. Mastering these techniques enhances data preprocessing skills. Try these examples with your datasets to optimize workflows. Happy coding! 📊💻
People who understand R and RStudio, please help me out.
I've been asked to use it for a class that is neither a stats nor an IT unit, so none of us are experienced with the tech.
Here's the issue:
I open RStudio. It shows me a mostly blank screen with the usual row of menus along the top plus the RStudio logo and name. Each menu displays (empty). In a separate window it opens the RStudio logo only.
I can't work out how to make it display menus and the rest of the UI.
It was working normally yesterday.
I have tried turning all aspects of the situation off and on again. I haven't tried downloading RStudio again.
Edit: possibly relevant, it's running on a basic laptop that's over 10yo.
The sparklyr package and friends have been getting some important updates in the past few months!
sparklyr is a package that allows you to interact with Spark using familiar R interfaces, such as dplyr, broom, and DBI. You can also gain access to Spark's distributed Machine Learning libraries, Structure Streaming, and ML Pipelines from R.
👍 In R, you can easily extract specific columns from a data frame by their numerical positions. For instance, to grab the second column from a data frame df, you can use df[, 2].
🙅♂️ You can also exclude columns by using negative indexing, such as df[, -2] to exclude the second column.
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@sotneStatue Good luck. I'm sure you'll find @Bioconductor packages very helpful! There is also a lot of materials on how to do it.
Pst if you use R the hashtag we use is usually #rstats. You might get more help if you post it with that hashtag 😉
Since I've recently quit my job, I've enabled github sponsors now. Without any expectations, let's see if I can make a living as an #rstats#rspatial#whateverspatial opensource developer 🤔
Thanks to inspiration by @kylebarron I am currently deep diving into #deckgl and #geoarrow to enhance the geo-spatial visualisation toolkit available in #rstats#rspatial...
#RStats lazyweb: has anyone ever had to connect to an azure SQL database using microsoft entra authentication? I am searching for a solution and all I can find is MSFT espousing how good it is, and so far it feels like an automation nightmare! ping @hrbrmstr because you’ve usually connected to everything before I have.
I have a private GitHub repo for an R package I developed for my organization. I cannot deploy a pkgdown webpage for my team in a private repo. Does anyone know if I can easily include a pkgdown webpage within my package (maybe in inst?) and have users serve it locally with a function call? I just saw this post from Maëlle Salmon: https://mastodon.social/@maelle/112393952364276977. Maybe servr::httw() could facilitate this? #rstats
#RStats users, I’m weighing up a new MacBook and wondering whether to go the Air or Pro. I don’t want a 16”. I’m curious to hear people’s experiences with the specs they have. Please, no Linux-only recs, as my clients all use the Office suite, which means I need to be able to deliver reliable documents to them, which isn’t quite possible with Libre Office.
We're extremely proud to announce that Deepsha Menghani (@deepsha) will be the Keynote Speaker at the Cascadia R Conference 2024. Her talk, titled 'Why is everybody talking about Generative AI?' will explore how GenAI applications have revolutionized numerous industries through practical use cases.