R-bloggers

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/openai-codex-app-qqman.Earlier this week I reposted a Bluesky post from Ethan Mollick. I’m on the same page here — there are problems for sure, but these tools have irreversibly changed th...

In December, one hundred ninety-six new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Audio Analysis, Causal Inference, Computational Methods, Ecology, Econometrics, Epidemiology...

I am very happy to announce the release of dfms version 1.0 (and 0.4.0 just a week earlier, see news), implementing major features such as support for dynamic factor models (DFMs) with autoregressive errors, mixed-frequency (monthly-quarterly) DFMs, including with autoregressive errors, and decomposition of forecast revisions into news releases (updates to time ...

Guest post by Christian Martinez, developer of the nycOpenData package in R. nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs I am pleased to announce the release of nycOpenData, an R package providing convenient, tidy access to dozens of ...

I saw a fun video on YouTube recently in which some runners attempted to do two parkruns in one day. I don’t mean run the same parkrun course twice, I mean they ran one parkrun at one course and then drove to a different course and ran that one ...

      Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI (Consumer Price Index) says? Yes.       For 2025 the overall CPI increased by a pretty moderate 2.7% (CPI-U for all urban cons...

This document describes the addition of support for variable fonts in R, when rendering glyphs, plus changes to the CRAN package xdvir to take advantage of that ...

We are pleased to announce the release of {pharmaversesdtm} 1.4.0 🎉 This release expands the breadth of SDTM test data available in the package, with a particular focus on neurology and oncology, alongside several targeted enhancements and fi...

Alt Text First things first, if you haven’t heard of or used alt text before, it is a brief written description of an image that explains context and purpose. It is used to improve accessibility by allowing screen readers to describe images, or p...

I am incredibly excited to announce the release of the futurize package. This launch marks a major milestone in the decade-long journey of the Futureverse project. Since the inception of the future ecosystem, I (and others) have envisioned a tool ...