era 0.6.0: chronological comparison and difference
era v0.6.0 is now available on CRAN:
install.packages("era")
library(era)
This minor release adds functions for chronological comparison of year vectors:
x # BCE years <... [Read more...]
ntroduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions workshop
Join our workshop on Introduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions ... [Read more...]
Using ghost text and next edit suggestions to learn agentic coding
I’m a big fan of Github Copilots ghost text and next edit suggestions. As a data analyst they give you much more control over the pace and direction of analysis code than a full AI agent. They also let you practice the core skill an agent needs ...
June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
Four hundred twelve new packages were submitted to CRAN in June. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Bioarchaeology, Biology, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Machine ...
GPopt for R: Bayesian and conformal optimization of black-box functions and hyperparameter tuning
GPopt for R: Bayesian and conformal optimization of black-box functions and hyperparameter tuning
Some useful equations for biological processes
Biological phenomena are often studied by examining how a numerical variable, usually called the response (e.g., the weight or height of an organism), is affected by another variable, usually called the predictor (e.g., time or fertiliser applic...
Babe Ruth: How good was he? Mantle versus Ruth
As a kid, my baseball hero was Mickey Mantle. In his 18-year Major League career, he amassed tremendous statistics, and surely he was one of the game's all-time greats. When Mantle retired, he was third on...
New Frontier
Remember the “AI rat penis” incident at Frontiers in Cell & Developmental Biology? Well, that was two and a half years ago. That’s enough water under the bridge to now check in and see how this incident affected the journal. If we look at how many papers published, we should ...
controller: tidy messy terminology in R with controlled vocabularies
controller is an R package for working with controlled vocabularies.
It’s first release (v0.1.0) is now available now on CRAN.
The package addresses something I find myself doing very often in analysis code: tidying messy and inconsistent terminologi... [Read more...]
muttest 0.3.0: Turn surviving mutants into a to-do list
Little useless-useful R functions – Jug solver with Bezout’s Identity
We all were presented with this problem – water jug problem, which – in the time of Football world cup 2026 – can be translated to any liquid. *hint hint* But the riddle is as logical as mathematical. With mathematics…Read more › [Read more...]
A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R: takeaways from the talk and workshop at UseR! 2026
At useR! 2026 in Warsaw, I contributed to a workshop on Geocomputation with R (July 6, 2026) and gave a keynote entitled A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R (July 8, 2026). Both were opportunities to consider what the ...
Level With Me: Can the WGI Predict the WJP’s Rule of Law Scores?
TLDR: The first post established that the WGI and WJP rule of law measures agree on how they rank countries. […]
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A collection of self-starters for nonlinear regression in R
Usually, the first step in every nonlinear regression analysis is to select the function that best describes the phenomenon under study. The next step is to fit this function to the observed data, possibly by using some sort of nonlinear least ...
Outcomes from EuroBioC2026 Tidyomics Hackathon
Two days, four participants, four aims
The first Tidyomics community hackathon took place on 1st and 2nd June in Turku, Finland, as part of the EuroBioC2026 conference pre-events. Here, four researchers from around the globe joined efforts to e...
Reading ‘Radical Uncertainty’
I recently read John Kay and Mervyn King’s book Radical Uncertainty as part of an economics book club and I thought I would share some thoughts on the book here.
I’ve never read anything by John Kay before, but this is the second book by King which I ... [Read more...]
Tabular Foundation Models: A First Look with TabICL
Tabular foundation models are a new category of machine learning model that can perform zero-shot (i.e., without any gradient updates) prediction on tabular datasets. They are pretrained on a distribution of synthetic tables and can transfer to n... [Read more...]
Mapping U.S. Rents by County in R with tidycensus, sf and ggplot2
The U.S. Census Bureau publishes the rent that a typical household pays in every county in the country, updated every year, and gives it…
Mapping Live U.S. Wildfire Smoke in R with sf and ggplot2
NOAA analysts trace wildfire smoke plumes from satellite imagery every day and publish them as open GIS shapefiles. The files live at a predictable,…
Five pre-flight checks for your dashboard
So you’ve built your data pipeline, you’ve designed your dashboard and you’ve connected the two through a real app. The screenshots match the designs and you can show it off and wow the stakeholders. Ready to launch, right? Well, maybe. In this post we’ll cover five ...
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