Gary Hutson

Creating Virtual Environments for Python Projects in VS Code

PythonGary Hutson13/04/20210

I had a similar problem recently, and then a request came through from a close friend (Chris Mainey) for the same purpose. I thought “I’ll write a blog post on this”. So, what are the benefits of creating virtual environments.” First of all. what are virtual environments: A virtual environment is a Python environment such that the Python interpreter, libraries and…

ConfusionTableR package has a new function

R BlogsGary Hutson06/04/20210

The ConfusionTableR package has a new function. Welcome to var_impeR which takes a trained caret R model and produces a tibble and a supporting variable importance plot. How to use the new var_impeR function The code following shows how to use the new function: Training a CARET model The following steps were used on the…

R BlogsGary Hutson17/03/2021

Text Mining – Term Frequency analysis and Word Cloud creation using the tm package

Analysing the pre-conference workshop sentiments I think back to a post I put on the NHS-R community website, but never posted…

R BlogsGary Hutson17/03/20210

NHSDataDictionaRy webinar date and other brilliant webinars

This week is an exciting week. Why is this? Well an addition to the NHS-R communities packages has been launched –…

R BlogsGary Hutson10/03/20211

NHSDataDictionaRy package has arrived on CRAN

Thanks to the NHS-R community I have had time to work on another package, due to their pledge to get more…

R BlogsGary Hutson09/03/20210

A function to speed up and simplify writing to SQL Server databases in R

I had a recent enquiry on our NHS-R community slack channel about which package is best to work with larger datasets,…

R BlogsGary Hutson03/03/20213

Data.Table – everything you need to know to get you started in R

I will take you through step by step how to use the data.table package, and compare it with base R operations,…

R BlogsGary Hutson18/02/20210

ConfusionTableR – a package to tidy outputs of confusion matrix objects for storage in databases and row level structures

I am really excited to announce my beta package and it is now available to download on GitHub. This is my…

R BlogsGary Hutson15/02/20211

R Package Tracking

I have recently uploaded my first R package to the CRAN repository, it needs an additional revision, but it is now…

PythonGary Hutson23/01/20210

Reticulate webinar – R and Python – a happy union

Wednesday (20th January 2021) myself and a colleagues Andreas kicked off the first webinar of 2021 for the NHS-R Community with…