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Hughes’s last breath?
At the time of writing, Mark Hughes is still the manager of QPR, but today’s defeat at home to fellow-struggler’s, Southampton, would seem to seal his fate If so, one of his last, and strangest,...
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And the Player of the Year is …
Less than one third of the season gone and the Daily Mail has an article on their player of the season. Experts weigh in with their opinions with a consensus that Luis Suarez is the front-runner. Some...
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Shiny is the new Cool
Several of you will probably have tried out the new Shiny package brought to the table by the RStudio guys This is just what I have been looking for and to my mind could provide a quantum leap in the...
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Shiny Server – Earthshattering News
As you probably know, I am one of the strongest proponents of the Shiny package for developing interactive web applications Amongst the latest news from RStudio is that what was planned to be...
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The Shiny package provides great user interactivity and another boost to its attractiveness has come with its integration with googleVis. Markus Gesman provides some background in a blog article with...
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Rooney as Fall Guy
The press is awash with rumours that Wayne Rooney and his massive salary are out of Old Trafford this summer, provided there are takers at 20 million His failure to make the starting lineup for the...
View ArticleAnalyzing Local Data with a Shiny Web App
A great. recent enhancement for the Shiny App is the ability to upload local files. Now, in addition to users being able to interact with data provided on the host e.g. Soccer Tables or via the web,...
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Are knuckleballers more volatile?
For years, the Blue Jays have been also-rans in the AL East but splashed out this season turning prospects into established stars in the hope of reaching the World Series Seven games in and the 2-5...
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MLB Pitcher Values
Not the start Blue Jays fans were looking for. With a 6-9 record at the time of publication they already trail Boston (led by reviled ex-BJ manager, John Farrell) by 4.5 games. The batting has been...
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Rooney on the wane?
British journalists have been waiting a dozen years to be able to use the above pun and there have recently been a number of comments on Rooney’s perceived decline A recent column by Martin Samuel in...
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TV shows rated by episode as a Shiny App
A few days ago there was an interesting R based article by diffuseprior on the decline and fall in the quality of The Simpsons The author scraped results from GEOS, an online survey of TV programs, and...
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How R Grows – not so fast
I have had some work on CRAN stats on the back-burner but the recent article How R Grows tempted me to push it up the list In the interim, I have a couple of comments on Joseph Rickert`s article....
View ArticleShiny App for CRAN packages
Over the past few days, I have been introduced to a few new-to-me R packages, via some comments from the Shiny guys and the R-bloggers site. This seems a rather haphazard way of acquiring knowledge and...
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EPL Leading Goalscorers update
Came across a heat map I posted about way back when which have updated for the last couple of seasons and enhanced a bit by showing team names in correct alphabetical order Here are this season’s...
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Not only CRAN downloads and Shiny … but also .. rCharts
I have been meaning for some time to get stuck into the rCharts package which provides an interface to many Javascript graphic libraries. These offer rich charting capabilities with interactivity and a...
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More goodies from rCharts
The guys developing rCharts continue to release enhancements by the day and I have taken advantage to update a couple of Shiny apps The CRAN download app now sports the new exporter feature so that any...
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In 2010, Crystal Palace FC were in administration and had 10 points deducted during the year. They only survived in the Championship on the last day of the season A year ago, they started the league...
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Craig Bellamy – quite dplyr
This weekend brought a couple of firsts in Cardiff’s winner against Norwich After a wretched time at Manchester United, Wilfried Zaha recorded his first Premiership assist, whilst, more interestingly,...
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