1969 Hendrix telegram: Can Paul come to play? Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970. More
Randy Jackson leaving 'American Idol' Jackson out. Randy Jackson, the lone original "American Idol" judge, says he won't be returning to the Fox talent competition. "To put all of the speculation to the rest, after 12 years of judging on `American Idol,' I have decided to leave after this season," Jackson said in a statement Thursday. More
Could Gonzaga's Khalif Battle be the X-Factor for the Zags?: 2024-25 player preview Khalif Battle has been in just about every situation possible throughout his five-year college basketball career. The high-scoring guard has tallied over 1,300 11/1/2024 - 6:07 am | View Link
China Stimulus Could Factor in U.S. Election Outcome The upcoming week features a key China meeting where details of stimulus are set to be unveiled. Markets are watching Beijing, which is inevitably watching the U.S. elections, said Vishnu Varathan at Mizuho Securities (Singapore). 10/31/2024 - 9:19 pm | View Link
What are the differences between a factor and a vector in R? We commonly use c() to create a vector, but note that even something as simple as x 11/1/2024 - 11:09 am | View Website
How do I convert certain columns of a data frame to become factors? Using a factor will require that all values are mapped to IDs behind the scenes, so any print of your data.frame requires a lookup on those levels -- an extra step which takes time. Factors are great when storing strings which you don't want to store repeatedly, but would rather reference by their ID. 11/1/2024 - 7:27 am | View Website
Convert data.frame column format from character to factor I would like to change the format (class) of some columns of my data.frame object (mydf) from charactor to factor. I don't want to do this when I'm reading the text file by read.table() function. ... 11/1/2024 - 7:05 am | View Website
r But annoyingly, there is nothing to handle the factor -> numeric conversion. As an extension of Joshua Ulrich's answer, I would suggest to overcome this omission with the definition of your own idiomatic function: as.double.factor 11/1/2024 - 5:25 am | View Website
r ‘factor(x, exclude = NULL)’ applied to a factor without ‘NA’s is a no-operation unless there are unused levels: in that case, a factor with the reduced level set is returned. ‘as.factor’ coerces its argument to a factor. It is an abbreviated (sometimes faster) form of ‘factor’. Performance: as.factor > factor when input is a factor 11/1/2024 - 5:11 am | View Website
When a baby was born to Irina Shayk and Bradley Cooper in 2017, the pair had been a couple for two years.
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Cardi B delivered an impassioned speech for Vice President Kamala Harris’ rally in Wisconsin on Friday. The Grammy-winning rapper appeared at the “When We Vote We Win” concert event in Milwaukee, following performances by GloRilla, MC Lyte, the Isley Brothers, Flo Milli and DJ Gemini Gilly. “Just like Kamala Harris, I too have been the […]
Among the great what-ifs for students of L. A. rock history is: What if Lone Justice had remained a somewhat obscure band…. and how many great records could they have put out if they had? It’s almost a ridiculous scenario to imagine, because lead singer Maria McKee’s vocal talent was such that quick discovery and absorption […]
Ariana Grande has decided she’s not that girl.
At least, that’s what viewers will notice when they see her name in the end credits of the upcoming Wicked film, all because she’s not going by her
No need to call Hailey Bieber or beep Justin Bieber if you want to see their son Jack's Halloween costume.
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Americans have all sorts of ways of learning about the Blitz from movies, chief among them John Boorman’s exuberant 1987 Hope and Glory, a memoir film about Boorman’s own boyhood experience during that period of roughly eight months, from 1940 to 1941, when London suffered persistent air attacks from the Luftwaffe.