Rlinguo — Why Did We Build It?

February 3, 2025 | Colin Fay

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Rlinguo — Why Did We Build It? Header image via ChatGPT We recently released something unprecedented: an app that brings R to mobile. Yes, you read that right — R, the statistical programming language, is now ... [Read more...]

Choroplethr is Scheduled to be Archived from CRAN

February 2, 2025 | Ari Lamstein

I was just notified by CRAN that choroplethr is scheduled to be archived on February 12. The reason is that choroplethr depends on the acs package, and the acs package is being archived. Apparently when a package is archived from CRAN, all packages which use it are also archived. I am ... [Read more...]

Nuevo vídeo sobre como crear funciones en R

February 1, 2025 | Teoten

Nuevo vídeo de R en Español sobre cómo Crear Funciones. Este vídeo es parte de mi playlist R Desde Ceros que pretende enseñar los aspectos mas básicos del uso de R para generar las bases para programación y análisis de datos. En ... [Read more...]

New year, new blog

January 30, 2025 | Econometrics and Free Software

Happy new year! The blog has a new look! Well it’s not that different on the surface. But under the hood, it is quite different indeed! My previous setup was: GitHub to host the code, on each push the build process would get started on Net...
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The Mathematics of Taylor Swift

January 30, 2025 | Jerry Tuttle

      I confess to being fascinated by Taylor Swift for far more than her music. I think she is an extraordinary person for her philanthropy, her speaking out for victims of sexual assault, her advocacy of artists' ownershi...
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Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in R

January 30, 2025 | kjytay

I recently learned from Allen Downey’s blog that Our World in Data is providing API access to their data. Our World in Data hosts datasets across several important topics, from population and demographic change, poverty and economic development, to human … Continue reading →
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From Code to Compliance: Validated Shiny Apps with Rhino

January 29, 2025 | Vedha Viyash

Developing GxP-validated applications that comply with strict regulatory requirements has been a significant challenge in the past, particularly due to the lack of tooling around good software development practices. This is no longer the case, over the years, many tools have been developed to help R programmers follow good software ...
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registration open for BayesComp 2025

January 28, 2025 | xi'an

The registration for the incoming, exciting, Bayes Comp 2025 conference (and its satellites) is now open, including information regarding accommodations for the conference. Early bird rates run till 15 March. Furthermore, the call for contributed talk...
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December 2024 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

January 26, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

In December, one hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Agriculture, Biology, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Healthcare, Health Technology Assessment, Ma...
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