If there’s one thing that can make your dashboards more intuitive to use, it’s icons. High-quality SVG icons can further explain, or sometimes replace long sections of text, and give your applications a fresh look. The best part is – you don’t have to be an expert designer ...

At the useR! 2022 Conference, the world-renowned Mayo Clinic announced that after 20 years of using SAS Institute’s JMP software, they have migrated to the BlueSky Statistics user interface for R. Ross Dierkhising, a principal biostatistician with the Clinic, described the process. They reviewed 16 commercial statistical software packages and none met ...

Machine learning operations (MLOps) are a set of best practices for running machine learning models successfully in production environments. Data scientists and system administrators have expanding options for setting up their pipeline. However, while ...

What is Zarr? Aggregating global precipitation time series to countries 50m natural Earth country boundaries simple aggregation CMIP6 data Reading sub-arrays or strided arrays Using the classic GDAL raster API...

When developing the promotion plan for the many exciting talks at rstudio::conf(2022), we thought of using the rtweet package by Michael W. Kearney to create a Twitter bot to automate Tweet announcements when a presentation was about to sta...

The September Call for Proposals is now open, and the Infrastructure Steering Committee would like to encourage proposals from the R Community to upgrade the software infrastructure supporting the satRdays... The post The R Consortium Needs Your Help with satRdays appeared first on R Consortium.

It’s been a while since I posted a breakdown of half marathon times. The last time seems to have been 2018. I decided to give my old code a clean-up and quickly crunched the numbers from the 2022 Kenilworth Half Marathon. First, the results: Briefly, the code below reads in a ...

There have been much talk and many blog posts about R package dependencies. Yet, one special dependency is more rarely mentioned, even though all packages include it: the dependency on R itself. The same way you can specify a dependency on a package, a...

Understanding the difference between local and global assignment operators in R can be tricky to get your head around. Here’s an example which should clear things up.First, let’s create two variables named “global_var” and “local_var” and give them the...

There is a class of software for modeling optimization problems referred to as algebraic modeling systems which provide a unified interface to formulate optimization problems in a manner that is close to mathematical depiction and have the abilit...

While most of the time it’s sufficient to programmatically validate your model assumptions, sometimes it’s helpful to visualize them. Here are a few quick ways you can do just that.LinearityVisualizing LinearityLinearity is likely the easiest assumptio...