Or more specifically, be careful to manage your machine's resources if you decide to run parallel jobs using RStudio. The latest version of RStudio makes it very easy to set up multiple jobs at the same time. All you need to do is put the code you'd like to run in a separate script, click … Continue reading Don’t Crash Your Laptop While Running Random Forest in R →

PROC MEANS is SAS is a very useful function to get descriptive statistics for numeric variables in a dataset. There are a few R packages that approximate or even improve on PROC MEANS - psych, stats, skimr. But for practice with functions this week we wrote an R function that would give some of the … Continue reading More fun with R functions →

Because I started learning R many years ago, prior to the inclusion of the notebook format in RStudio, I stubbornly stuck with using R scripts for the past few years as the notebook format grew in popularity. Now my mind has been changed. The biggest benefit to notebooks is that a couple of years ago … Continue reading R Notebooks Are Very Useful →

We've reached the point in our programming class where we've moved onto R. I couldn't be happier. Why? Because now I can use functions. Let's face it, I'm lazy and the less typing that I have to do the better. Here's a simple example.Task: Create a histogram for twelve variables.Solution: Write a function, create a … Continue reading Functions are my friend →