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Exploring `RSQLite` With `DBI`: A Note To Myself

April 17, 2025 | r on Everyday Is A School Day

I messed around with DBI and RSQLite and learned it’s actually pretty simple to use in R - just connect, write tables, and use SQL queries without all the complicated server stuff. Thanks to Alec Wong for suggesting this! Motivation After our last blog, my friend Alec Wong suggested ...

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Repost: R 4.5.0 and Bioconductor 3.21

April 17, 2025 | Stephen Turner

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/r-450-bioconductor-321.Faster package installation, import only the functions you want with use(), built-in Palmer penguins data, grep values shortcut, and lots of new bioinformatics pa...

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Welcome, Ashley Tarasiewicz

April 15, 2025 | Mike Stackhouse

Hello pharmaverse community! I’m thrilled to announce that Ashley Tarasiewicz will be taking over the Atorus seat from me on the Pharmaverse council. Ashley has been a contributor to the pharmaverse since the early days of its inception, contr... [Read more...]

Running R on Windows on ARM on GitHub Actions

April 15, 2025 | R | Dr Tom Palmer

Introduction GitHub has recently announced that Windows ARM64 runners are now available under the windows-11-arm label. I help maintain an R package, TwoSampleMR, which has quite alot of users. The package is not on CRAN because several of its depend... [Read more...]

Announcing the Jumping Rivers Dashboard Gallery

April 15, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

At Jumping Rivers we love data dashboards and are delighted to announce the release of a gallery to showcase our application-development skills. Tools like Shiny, Dash, Streamlit and Observable have simplified the process of making interactive, v...

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Assessing rating scale dimensionality through bifactor model-based indices in R workshop

April 15, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Assessing rating scale dimensionality through bifactor model-based indices in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Assessing rating scale dimensionality through bifactor model-based indices in R Date: Thursday, May 15th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: ... [Read more...]

K-Means Clustering Analysis of Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia

April 15, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

The exemption of key electronic components from tariffs is likely to positively impact Apple more, which manufactures approximately 90% of its iPhones in China, compared to other tech giants like Microsoft and Nvidia. Furthermore, the k-means clustering chart shows that Apple has diverged year to date, specifically after the April 2 tariffs. ... [Read more...]

Sport data from Runalyze

April 14, 2025 | Michael

Runners – CC-BY by ~jar{} I already explored how to get your activities from Strava. Maybe you use Runalyze instead? In that case you can do some web scraping to export your data. library(httr) library(rvest) library(glue) library(read...

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Choroplethr v4.0.0 is now on CRAN

April 14, 2025 | Ari Lamstein

choroplethr version 4.0.0 is now on CRAN. You can install it like this: With this version, I have transferred the maintenance of choroplethr to Zhaochen He, an economics professor at Christopher Newport University. Zhao addressed the issues that led to choroplethr being archived from CRAN in February. Please join me in ...

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Train Predict Evaluate Basics

April 13, 2025 | Giuseppe Casalicchio

Goal Our goal for this exercise sheet is to learn the basics of mlr3 for supervised learning by training a first simple model on training data and by evaluating its performance on hold-out/test data. German Credit Dataset The German credit dat... [Read more...]

Getting My Feet Wet With `Plumber` and JavaScript

April 13, 2025 | r on Everyday Is A School Day

Tried out plumber and a bit of JavaScript to build a simple local API for logging migraine events 🧠💻. Just a quick tap on my phone now records the time to a CSV—pretty handy! 📱✅ Motivation After our previous blog on barometric pressure monitoring, my friend Alec Wong said ‘Won’t ...

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Extending the Theta forecasting method to GLMs, GAMs, GLMBOOST and attention: benchmarking on Tourism, M1, M3 and M4 competition data sets (28000 series)

April 13, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Benchmarking the Theta forecasting method with GLMs, GAMs, GLMBOOST, and attention on M1, M3 and M4 competition datasets (28000 series)

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Integration testing in Epiverse-TRACE

April 13, 2025 | Joshua W. Lambert

In Epiverse-TRACE we develop a suite of R packages that tackle predictable tasks in infectious disease outbreak response. One of the guiding software design principles we have worked towards is interoperability of tooling, both between Epiverse ... [Read more...]

R Version 4.5.0 is Out!

April 13, 2025 | Blog on Credibly Curious

Some windows. Olympus XA, Portra 800. Photo by Nicholas Tierney The new R version 4.5.0 is out, and you should get it! I’ve read through the NEWS file, which details every change - there are many! I would recommend having a skim. If you’...

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AI-generated code comes with security risks

April 13, 2025 | Françoisn - f@briatte.org

More and more students are using AI-generated code in their studies, without necessarily understanding the security risks that this entails. This has consequences for users such as students learning how to code in R. How AI-generated code happens Gen... [Read more...]

Setting Up Cross-Validation (caret package) in R: A Step-by-Step Guide

April 13, 2025 | Nick Han

In this blog, we explored how to set up cross-validation in R using the caret package, a powerful tool for evaluating machine learning models. Here’s a quick recap of what we covered: Introduction to Cross-Validation: Cross-validation is a resampling technique that helps assess model performance and prevent overfitting by ...

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Data Splitting and Preprocessing (rsample) in R: A Step-by-Step Guide

April 13, 2025 | Nick Han

Data preprocessing is a crucial step in any machine learning workflow. It ensures that your data is clean, consistent, and ready for modeling. In this blog post, we’ll walk through the process of splitting and preprocessing data in R, using the rsample package for data splitting and saving the ...

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Mastering Data Preprocessing in R with the `recipes` Package

April 13, 2025 | Nick Han

Data preprocessing is a critical step in any machine learning workflow. It ensures that your data is clean, consistent, and ready for modeling. In R, the recipes package provides a powerful and flexible framework for defining and applying preprocessing steps. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to use ...

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The apply() Family of Functions in R

April 13, 2025 | Nick Han

The apply() family of functions in R is a powerful tool for applying operations to data structures like matrices, data frames, and lists. These functions help you write concise and efficient code by avoiding explicit loops. Here’s what we’ll cover: Introduction: A brief overview of the apply() family ... [Read more...]

Exploring a 3-D Synthetic Dataset

April 11, 2025 | John Russell

Exploring the HistData package Over on BlueSky, I have been working through a few challenges. For the months of February and March, I participated in the DuBois Challenge, where you take a week to recreate some of the powerful visualizations that came out of the Paris Exposition from W.E....

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