R-bloggers

Observable for R users

March 31, 2025 | R on Nicola Rennie

Observable is a JavaScript-based reactive programming environment, commonly used for interactive data exploration, visualisation, and dashboards. You can create and publish Observable notebooks at observablehq.com (which is also a great place to look f... [Read more...]

Bayesian proportional hazards model for a stepped-wedge design

March 31, 2025 | Keith Goldfeld

We’ve finally reached the end of the road. This is the fifth and last post in a series building up to a Bayesian proportional hazards model for analyzing a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial. If you are just joining in, you may want to start at ...

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Should I Use Your R Package?

March 31, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

The answer to this simple, innocuous question is: it depends. It depends on the package in question, of course. Perhaps less obviously, but just as importantly, it depends on who’s asking the question. We’re sure if we asked you about...

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April Fool’s Day, and the Pythagorean Theorem

March 31, 2025 | Jerry Tuttle

Here is a post in honor of April Fools' Day, which unlike March 14, is celebrated by countries that use either the month-day format or the day-month format. Not everyone is a math per...

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Nonlinear conformalized Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) with R package ‘rvfl’ (and other models)

March 30, 2025 | T. Moudiki

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RObservations #51: Download Kaggle Datasets into the R Console with {RKaggle}

March 30, 2025 | Benjamin Smith

I recently found some R code in the TidyTuesday repository which pulled data from Kaggle directly into the R console and I thought the idea was incredible! After looking around and seeing that there was no packages that already did this, I was inspired to create the {RKaggle} package which ...

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Converting arbitrarily large CSVs to Parquet with R

March 30, 2025 | Michael Mayer

How to convert that huge csv to parquet? Now in R!

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February 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

March 27, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

In February, one hundred fifty-nine new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in fifteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Genomics, Health Sciences, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Music,... [Read more...]

rOpenSci News Digest, March 2025

March 26, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci Champions Program 2025 In Spanish: Apply before April 30th... [Read more...]

Dealing with Duplicate Data in R workshop

March 25, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Dealing with Duplicate Data in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Dealing with Duplicate Data in R Date: Thursday, April 25th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: Erin Grand works as a freelancer and Data ... [Read more...]

FDA Compliance in Software Development: Cases Where Poor Software Quality Led to Costly FDA Rejections

March 25, 2025 | Paweł Przytuła

If you work in pharma, you know how much time and money go into drug development. The last thing you want is a painful FDA rejection, one that not only costs your company millions but also delays critical treatments for patients who need them. Regulatory rejections can happen for many ...

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checkglobals: an(other) R-package for static code analysis

March 24, 2025 | Open Analytics

Introduction An important aspect of writing an R-script or an R-package is ensuring reproducibility and maintainability of the developed code, not only for others, but also for our future selves. The modern R ecosystem provides various tools and packa...

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Collecting Stock Data Using R: A Quick Guide

March 24, 2025 | John

Collecting data can be a drudge for many tasks in economics or securities analysis. Fortunately, R has some good options available to streamline this task. Popular R Packages for Stock Data quantmod:The quantmod package is a favorite among financial analysts.It provides functions for quantitative financial modeling, including the ... [Read more...]

Software Review, Perspectives from an Academic

March 24, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

There’s an R package for this… right? How it started My journey in creating my first R package all started when I received an email from a colleague who was working with archived soil samples that were collected prior to the advent of G... [Read more...]

Conformalize (improved prediction intervals and simulations) any R Machine Learning model with misc::conformalize

March 24, 2025 | T. Moudiki

A new function in the misc package allows you to perform conformal prediction with any R machine learning model. Conformal prediction improves prediction intervals' coverage rate thanks to held-out set cross-validation errors.

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A Bayesian proportional hazards model for a cluster randomized trial

March 24, 2025 | Keith Goldfeld

In recent posts, I introduced a Bayesian approach to proportional hazards modeling and then extended it to incorporate a penalized spline. (There was also a third post on handling ties when multiple individuals share the same event time.) This post ...

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cor Function in R | Calculate Correlation Coefficients in R

March 24, 2025 | Unknown

How can learning the cor function in r transform your data analysis workflow into a precise, insightful, reproducible process that measures relationships between variables and drives actionable insights in research and business? It allows you to eff...

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Thanks, on its way to CRAN

March 24, 2025 | Serkan Korkmaz

The generic seal of approval from the CRAN team – countless hours spent tabbing between R CMD check and R CMD build logs, ‘Writing R Extensions’ and Stackoverflow approved, with a single line. The equivalent of “Noted, thanks” after a painstakingly well-written e-mail to your professor – except, this has an amazing ... [Read more...]

Appsilon at ShinyConf 2025: Pushing the Boundaries of Shiny Development

March 24, 2025 | Joanna Moćko-Łazarewicz

ShinyConf 2025 is almost here, and we’re excited to bring the community together again. As the organizers, we’ve put together a lineup of talks and workshops that focus on making Shiny apps faster, easier to use, and more scalable. Don’t miss out on ShinyConf 2025! Register now and join ...

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rOpenSci Participation at NumFOCUS’ DISC Unconf

March 23, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

The NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (“DISC”) Unconf took place as a hybrid event in São Paulo, Brazil, from March 14 to 16, 2025. Our community manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene, and rOpenSci Champions, Andrea Gomez Vargas and... [Read more...]

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