R-bloggers

Breaking the Python Barrier: Building a Pure R-Native DeepAR Engine with LibTorch

August 18, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

Deep learning for time series forecasting in R has historically faced a major architectural hurdle: Python overhead. Frameworks like modeltime.gluonts provide interface wrappers around AWS GluonTS, but they rely on a complex execution chain passing through reticulate, virtual environments, Python serialization, and MXNet/PyTorch backends. To overcome the performance ...

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Notes on purposeful skill maintenance/improvement/neglect

August 16, 2026 | Alexej Gossmann

Over the course of my life I’ve invested a lot of time and effort into the acquisition of different skills, abilities, competencies, specialized knowledge – for simplicity I will refer to all of it as “skills” in the following. Some of those skills, I would say, have even become an ... [Read more...]

Creating self-contained R scripts for rendering Quarto documents using the knitr engine – courtesy of the new R package managers ir and uvr

August 15, 2026 | R | Dr Tom Palmer

Introduction In previous posts I have described how to use the self-contained Python scripts feature in the uv Python package manager to create virtual environments to render Quarto documents using the Jupyter nbstata kernel and the python3 kernel. I... [Read more...]

More progress with Tabler for R

August 15, 2026 | https://pacha.dev/blog

For R users that are just starting with R or that have been using it for years

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Token Maxxing

August 15, 2026 | Alex Fischer

Claude Codex Usually I don’t watch much youtube (a social phenomenon I have somewhat missed out on), but here’s an interesting video about another social phenomenon I have somewhat experienced myself . With LLM coding, I feel li...

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A Tiny Iroshizuku Ink Shop in R

August 15, 2026 | Chi

色彩雫 I just discovered that the R script I had written while back, which was a hand-curated colour palette of Pilot Iroshizuku fountain pen inks. Pilot describes Iroshizuku as a combination of iro = colour, and shizuku = droplet. The individual ...

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[R] Environment Variables in R Shiny-Server Container: Problem and Solutions

August 14, 2026 | R on Zhenguo Zhang's Blog

Zhenguo Zhang's Blog https://fortune9.netlify.app/2026/08/15/r-environment-variables-in-r-shiny-server-container/ -When dockerizing an R Shiny application hosted via Shiny Server (built from shiny server docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/shiny), a common issue developers face is that environment variables set via ENV instructions in the Dockerfile (or passed at ... [Read more...]

‘Zero-Shot Probabilistic Stock Returns Forecasting with Pretrained RVFL Networks’ accepted at COPA 2026 (and to appear in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research)

August 14, 2026 | T. Moudiki

Link to the paper and the code repository.

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Round-robin (with Claude)

August 14, 2026 | xi'an

A few days ago I had a coffee in Paris with my long-time friend (and former Statistics & Computing editor) Gilles Celeux, and he mentioned me stopping solving and posting maths puzzles like those weekly published by Le Monde. They have indeed vanished with the retirement of the authors, but Gilles ...

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Reading notes on Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann

August 13, 2026 | Maëlle's R blog on Maëlle Salmon's personal website

Last month, Vicki Boykis recommended the book “Code that Fits in Your Head” by Mark Seemann. I was intrigued, especially by her takeaway that “Writing good software should be a slow and deliberate craft”. The book reminded of Th... [Read more...]

Posit Assistant: Is it worth the switch?

August 13, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

What Is Posit Assistant? Posit Assistant is an AI assistant built into your IDE, either Positron or RStudio. It’s built primarily for exploratory data analysis, and its pitch is session context and specialised, in-built skills. If you follow Posit’s developments, you might have heard of their previous iterations ...

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Some everyday data tasks: a few hints with R

August 13, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

It is important to know how to reshape a dataframe into a form that might be more suitable for the analyses we intend to perform. For me, it is also important to know how to do this with base R, without using any other packages. Yes, I know that...

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Ihaka Lecture

August 13, 2026 | R on kieranhealy.org

I gave the first of this year’s Ihaka Lectures at the University of Auckland this past July. It revisited and partially updated things I’ve been talking about for the past eighteen months or so on trust in data visualization (and b... [Read more...]

Announcing AI in Production 2027

August 12, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

AI in Production is about the reality of running AI and machine learning systems, not just building them. The talks come from people who have shipped something and lived with what came next: what worked, what surprised them, what they would do di...

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From Raw Data to Regulatory Results: Clinical Trial Programming in R using the pharmaverse workshop

August 12, 2026 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on From Raw Data to Regulatory Results: Clinical Trial Programming in R using the pharmaverse, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: From Raw Data to Regulatory Results: Clinical Trial Programming in R using the pharmaverse Date: Thursday, ... [Read more...]

Why ACF Is More Than Just a Plot

August 10, 2026 | M. Fatih Tüzen

1 Introduction Two observations can have the same units, come from the same source, and still require a different kind of reasoning simply because one was recorded before the other. That is the defining feature of time series data: order c...

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The Resource Project: Tell R How Much Memory You Need

August 10, 2026 | JottR on R

Fit a cross-validated elastic net with cv.glmnet(x, y) on a design matrix that comfortably fits in memory, and the call can still fail. The reason is that the function needs several times the size of x while it runs, and nothing anywhere in your sc...

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R-Community A moderated Google Group to share R knowledge

August 10, 2026 | https://pacha.dev/blog

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Dual scaled y-axis with ggplot()

August 10, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

I have often found myself needing to plot a single graph with two y-axes having different scales. For example, this might be useful for representing temperature and rainfall data at a given location. Unfortunately, doing this with ggplot() is no...

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Institutions Are a Package Deal: What a Correlation Can’t Tell You About the Rule of Law

August 9, 2026 | Giles Dickenson-Jones

This post asks how institutions should be conceptualized and analyzed: can the rule of law (and other institutions) sensibly be examined one at a time, or do they need to be treated as parts of an interdependent system? The post Institutions Are a Package Deal: What a Correlation Can’t ...

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