R-bloggers

Overview       Do people in red states live shorter lives?       This project examines whether state level life expectancy is statistically associated with each state's political climate in t...

We’ve previously extolled the virtues of automating the repetitive chores we encounter, allowing us to focus on the tasks that matter. Three years ago, we posted an example of how to automate the deployment of a Shiny application to shinyapps.io from a GitHub Actions. When a new commit ...

There's no official crosswalk between the ONET's occupational taxonomy and ANZSCO, which is awkward, because Australian researchers use ONET data all the time. This post builds one, explains why you should be suspicious of relying on it and then suggests a better methodology is probably what was applied by the ...

The gap Much of what Bioconductor packages do is interactive and exploratory, and rightly belongs in an R session. But some of it is batch-shaped: a well-defined analysis with file inputs, file outputs, and a handful of parameters. Differential...

Below are the slides for my Futurize - Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers talk that I presented at the useR! 2026 conference in Warzaw, Poland. Title: Futurize - Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpil...

Introduction In a previous article, we showed how to perform the Chi-square test of independence in R in order to test whether two qualitative variables are related. As mentioned in that article (and in the one showing how to do the Chi-square tes...

It’s 2:47pm, the meeting has been running for 38 minutes, and someone has just said, “Can everyone see my screen?” You’re trying to concentrate, your laptop fan sounds like it’s preparing for take-off, and somewhere outside the temperature has climbed to 34°C. You’ve already relocated once today ...

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 ...

Yesterday I was in Berlin for the day and presented at the local PyData Meetup on our new solver for fixed effects regression. It was of course a lot of fun! The development was prompted by an issue we received via github a couple of months ago: ...

Yesterday I was in Berlin for the day and presented at the local PyData Meetup on our new solver for fixed effects regression. It was of course a lot of fun! The development was prompted by an issue we received via github a couple of months ago: ...

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

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...