December 15, 2018

There are several helpful functions included in {lubridate} to convert columns to dates. For instanceif the column you want to convert is of the form “2012-11-21”, then you would use the function ymd(),for “year-month-day”. If, however the column is “2012-21-11”, then you would use ydm(). There’sa few of these helper functions, and they can handle a lot of different formats for dates. In our case,having the name of the month instead of the number might seem quite problematic, but it turns outthat this is a case that {lubridate} handles painfully:

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dAIrector dAIrector is an automated director which collaborates with humans storytellers for live improvisational performances and writing assistance. dAIrector can be used to create short narrative arcs through contextual plot generation. In this work, we present the system architecture, a quantitative evaluation of design choices, and a case-study usage of the system which provides qualitative feedback from a professional improvisational performer. We present relevant metrics for the understudied domain of human-machine creative generation, specifically long-form narrative creation. We include, alongside publication, open-source code so that others may test, evaluate, and run the dAIrector. …

You might have heard of the Advent of Code,a 25-day challenge involving a programming puzzle a day, to be solvedwith the language of your choice. I’ve noted the popularity of thisactivity in my Twitter timeline but also in my GitHub timeline whereI’ve seen the creation of a few advent-of-code or so repositories.

I’m a postdoc studying scientific reproducibility. I have a machine learning question that I desperately need your help with. My advisor and I disagree on how we should carry out repeated cross-validation. We would love to have a third expert opinion…

We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those functions, if they are within a package. Up till the 24th December I will present one function each day from helfRlein. So, on the 15th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

Francy Data visualization and interaction with large data sets is known to be essential and critical in many businesses today, and the same applies to research and teaching, in this case, when exploring large and complex mathematical objects. GAP is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with an emphasis on computational group theory. The existing XGAP package for GAP works exclusively on the X Window System. It lacks abstraction between its mathematical and graphical cores, making it difficult to extend, maintain, or port. In this paper, we present Francy, a graphical semantics package for GAP. Francy is responsible for creating a representational structure that can be rendered using many GUI frameworks independent from any particular programming language or operating system. Building on this, we use state of the art web technologies that take advantage of an improved REPL environment, which is currently under development for GAP. The integration of this project with Jupyter provides a rich graphical environment full of features enhancing the usability and accessibility of GAP. …

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I will be pushing a new version of futile.logger (version 1.5) to CRAN in January. This version introduces a number of enhancements and fixes some bugs. It will also contain at least one breaking change. I am making the release process public, since the package is now used in a number of other packages. If you use futile.logger, this is your opportunity to influence the direction of the package and prepare for changes. Please use the github issue tracker for discussion.