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R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics similar to S.

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I have a tumor dataset in R that is a Seurat object. I am working on a project to develop a new visualization tool for single-cell RNA-seq data. I want to develop the visualization using JavaScript, ...
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I write code in R, and often find myself attempting to optimize the code for better performance. In a given script that tackles a specific problem, I test different code alternatives and compare them ...
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I have a frontend through which users can submit analysis requests, which are inserted into a database. These analysis requests are received in a NodeJS server using Postgres notify/listen. Using ...
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I have a web application that depends upon a set of R analytics. These R analytics read data from a database and perform machine learning, so have high CPU use. The R analytics are accessed through ...
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I am looking for a simple software architecture that is able to evaluate user data using different versions of algorithms. According to my concept, the user is able to upload tabular data via a Web ...
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I am writing my first R package, converting my existing scripts into a bona fide package. I frequently use the magrittr pipe operator %>% in my code because I find it makes code more intuitively ...
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Consider a "large-ish" data set (~2-5M rows) that goes through multiple stages of cleaning/processing: library(dplyr) largedat %>% mutate( # overwrite v1 based on others v1 = somefunc(...
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ls and objects functions are both from the base package and are exactly the same as discussed here. I've seen other examples of duplicated functions (in the tidyverse and base if I remember correctly)....
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I am a data scientist and do lots of programming in R/RStudio. I like to be organised (as I'm sure (hope) most programmers do) and as such I always use the Project feature in RStudio to keep my work ...
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I am a data scientist who programs in R, but am relatively new to using version control (yes, I know!) and I am still learning lots about it. FYI: I use BitBucket and Sourcetree I understand the ...
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In R, the simplest kind of value is an "atomic" vector with a primitive type like double, but it can have any length, so the term "atomic" is not what I want. Here's an example: I ...
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I'm working on ASP.NET MVC project where controller calling static class that run R scripts from external R project Controller public ActionResult Index() { Rscript.Run("...
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This is probably a sloppy way to see it, but I wonder if the idea of longitudinal datasets (to be used in ggplot2, for instance), can be exlpained as complying with the criteria of data in a 1st ...
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Rstudio has a community version for free: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/#Desktop But mentions the license is AGPL v3. Does this effect the licensing or IP rights of code written on the ...
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I'm currently in the process of writing a program in R to perform analysis of data from a mass spectrometry experiment. Well, that's the idea. I'm fairly new to R, and didn't actually perform the mass ...
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I'm using a large and complex library including R and C++ code, available online via a subversion repository. Trying to figure out how it works I took a bunch of notes in the source code itself, in ...
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I am inexperienced with iteration in R and am hoping to speed up a process as I am implementing some analysis in a website. I realise that this may be a Q for SO but I couldn't get an answer from them....
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Can I use R via RDOTNET without having to provide the source code of my application. R is covered under GNU GPLv3. RDOTNET is under New BSD. From the RDOTNET description: "R.NET enables the .NET ...
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I am currently studying R. While studying that I came across a command set.seed(any number) . After googling also I didn't understood much except that it has something to do with Random number ...
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In our company we have a handful of R users who have collectively written some ~30 .R scripts over the last year. The scripts are mostly 100 lines or less, defining useful and reusable functions. ...
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I'm primarily a Python/R developer. In those languages, the way I develop is to sketch out a data and class structure, write the methods and their tests in interactive mode, then refactor them up into ...
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In reading Hadley Wickham's Advanced R I learned about the difference between atomic vectors and lists; and matrices/arrays and dataframes. This is something I hadn't really appreciated before, and ...
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I have only recently started to market myself as a 'programmer' rather than an analyst or something else entirely. In a recent search of freelance/part-time/contract work, I came across an ad for a ...
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I'm writing a commercial package that uses R (GPL) for its computation. The GPL FAQ clearly states that GPLed programming language interpreters do not impose licensing restrictions on the "program" (...
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A colleague and I are doing a free R course, although I believe this is a more general lazy evaluation issue, and have found a scenario that we have discussed briefly and I'd like to find out the ...
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My group has been developing an R package to simulate plant growth (see GitHub repository). The R package uses .Call to interface with C. We have decided that it would be worthwhile to create a ...
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I'm finding R confusing because it has such a different notion of reference than I am used to in languages like C, Java, Javascript... Ruby, Python, C++, well, pretty much any language I have ever ...
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It seems to me that programming languages meant for use in science and engineering are consistently weird compared to general-purpose languages. Some examples off the top of my head: In Matlab, each ...
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I have been programming for about a year and I am really interested in data analysis and machine learning. I am taking part in a couple of online courses and am reading a couple of books. Everything ...
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I am (re-)designing some packages for R, and I am currently working out the necessary functions, objects, both internal and for the interface with the user. I have documented the individual functions ...
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I spent the last week learning 3 new tools: R, Sweave, and LaTeX. One question that came to my mind when working through my first project: Where do I place the majority of the R code? The tutorials ...
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Considering I have no programming background, Is there a resource out there that's the de-facto standard for describing best practices, design methodologies, and other helpful information on R ...
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I am currently working on a system that will generate product recommendations like those on Amazon: "People who bought this also bought this.." This is how I plan to do it: Process the data using ...
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I'm interested in statistical computing. R is a leader platform obviously but what about Incanter? Incanter is at the top of my list since I'm a Clojure and JVM guy. Do you have any real world ...
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I love programming in languages that seem geared towards hardcore programmers. (My favorites are Python and D.) MATLAB is geared towards engineers and R is geared towards statisticians, and it seems ...
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