R Girls Open Event 2025

July 30, 2025 | Heather Turner

Forwards members Heather Turner and Ella Kaye were invited to attend the “Data Science for Girls” open event hosted by R-Girls at Green Oak Academy, Birmingham, UK on July 9 2025. They joined other guests from Ascent and Health Data Research UK...
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June 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

July 29, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

In June, one hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-one categories: AI, Chess, Computational Methods, Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Genomics, Linguistics, Machine Learning...
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What’s R vector, Victor?

July 29, 2025 | R on Biofunctor

In this week’s episode of the “Hidden Monads in R” series, I’ll explore the vector aspect of R data structures, and see how the flatmap operation can be quite useful. Flatmap? Aren’t all maps flat? The Nobel Prize organis...
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Efficient R – How to write faster code workshop

July 28, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Efficient R – How to write faster code, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  Here’s some more info:  Title: Efficient R – How to write faster code Date: Thursday, August 28th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: Selina Baldauf, Selina is a theoretical ... [Read more...]

Let’s talk about NA-s!

July 22, 2025 | R on Biofunctor

ARTHUR: Well, what is it you want? HEAD KNIGHT: We want… a paste function that can deal with NA-s! A language for statistical computing clearly needs to be able to deal with missing values, and R has various ways to do so. I will briefly go th...
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