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My colleagues run some highly regarded R workshops for well over a decade in Brisbane (Australia) every year. Details here and info below Are you ready to take your R skills to the next level and conquer the challenges of messy data? Transform r... [Read more...]

Answering a question that came up from a student recently. Say you have 20 surveys of reef fish biomass at different locations. Then you also have gridded data with environmental covariates. The gridded data is for all reefs everywhere. The goal... [Read more...]

Learn how to set your working directory in R using setwd() or the RStudio Session menu. Covers getwd(), Windows path errors, and the here() package for dissertation projects. Read More » [Read more...]

Join our workshop on Introduction to Bayesian Multiple Imputation with the rblimp package,  which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  Here’s some more info:  Title: Introduction to Bayesian Multiple Imputation with the rblimp package Date: Thursday, July 23rd, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)  Speaker: Ermioni Athanasiadi ... [Read more...]

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May was Open Source Software Maintainer Month. Behind every R package there is at least one person who responds to issues, reviews pull requests, keeps up with dependency changes, and makes sure everything still works. During Maintainer Month we wante... [Read more...]

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Le 16 juin 2026, Arthur Mensch, le patron emblématique de Mistral AI, a publié sur LinkedIn un message d’une rare solennité. Le discours officiel y célèbre, comme toujours, l’indépendance technologiqu [Read more...]

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The Rousseeuw Prize honors five pioneering developers for nearly three decades of unpaid work building R, the foundational open-source computing language behind artificial intelligence, healthcare, and economic decision-making. The $1 million Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics recognizes three decades of foundational work that transformed how statistical methods are developed, validated, and shared ... [Read more...]

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shiny.webawesome brings Web Awesome to R Shiny through generated wrappers, reactive bindings, and a bundled runtime. It aims for complete component support while staying close enough to upstream that the Web Awesome docs and examples are directly useful in everyday package use. CRAN | R-universe | Package website | Source repository Background ... [Read more...]

Introduction If you’re an R user, you’ve probably experienced these moments: You’re writing code and forgot the exact syntax for a function Your code throws an error and you’re staring at a confusing error message You have a block of code but want to understand what ... [Read more...]

The package msPCA is now available on CRAN!  It implements a new method for computing multiple sparse principal components of a dataset. Unlike other available packages, it generates PCs that are sparse and orthogonal, leading to a generally higher fra... [Read more...]

Clinical data are rarely as clean, compact or convenient as the examples we often use when teaching statistics or R. Real hospital datasets are usually distributed across several tables, include missing values, contain repeated structures, and require careful documentation before they can be reused. The new R package DIVINE is ... [Read more...]

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