R-bloggers

Great news, everyone! smooth package for R version 4.4.0 is now on CRAN. Why is this a great news? Let me explain! On this page: What’s new? Evaluation Setup Results What’s next? Here is what’s new since 4.3.0: First, I have worked on tuning the initialisation in adam() in ...

I am excited to introduce a new R package called flownet providing high-performance tools for transport modeling—network processing, route enumeration, and traffic assignment in R. As of now, the package implements the Path-Sized Logit (PSL) model (Ben-Akiva and Bierlaire, 1999)—a powerful and well-established method for stochastic traffic assignment accounting ...

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/openai-codex-app-qqman.Earlier this week I reposted a Bluesky post from Ethan Mollick. I’m on the same page here — there are problems for sure, but these tools have irreversibly changed th...

In December, one hundred ninety-six new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Audio Analysis, Causal Inference, Computational Methods, Ecology, Econometrics, Epidemiology...

I am very happy to announce the release of dfms version 1.0 (and 0.4.0 just a week earlier, see news), implementing major features such as support for dynamic factor models (DFMs) with autoregressive errors, mixed-frequency (monthly-quarterly) DFMs, including with autoregressive errors, and decomposition of forecast revisions into news releases (updates to time ...

Guest post by Christian Martinez, developer of the nycOpenData package in R. nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs I am pleased to announce the release of nycOpenData, an R package providing convenient, tidy access to dozens of ...

I saw a fun video on YouTube recently in which some runners attempted to do two parkruns in one day. I don’t mean run the same parkrun course twice, I mean they ran one parkrun at one course and then drove to a different course and ran that one ...

      Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI (Consumer Price Index) says? Yes.       For 2025 the overall CPI increased by a pretty moderate 2.7% (CPI-U for all urban cons...