Sure, you could use one of the commercial or open-source RSS readers. But isn’t it more fun to code your own? RSS feeds have been around since the late ’90s, and they remain a handy way to keep up ...

R packages are great for organizing your own work, not only sharing with others. See how to create an R package in a few simple steps, thanks to packages like devtools, usethis, and roxygen2 When you ...

Do you have some data with geolocation information that you want to map? You may not think of R when you’re looking for a GIS platform, but new packages and standards have helped make the R ...

One of Slack‘s greatest appeals is that it’s so extensible. While its main purpose is group collaboration, add-on apps can do everything from answer questions about business analytics to offer project ...

Let's use this classical statistics technique -- and some R, of course -- to get to some of the latent variables hiding in your data. Factor analysis is a classical statistics technique that examines ...