The modern revolution of big data has led to a boom in business intelligence. But data is only as valuable as the insights it provides. That means the true value of data is in exposing hidden insights. But if the way you share your data is slow, unscalable, or poorly ...

Some simple frameworks for risk management in goals-based portfolios.

Testing Platform Installing Dependencies Installing Quarto Quarto is Posit’s new open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc that allows you to weave together narrative text and code to produce high-quality outputs including reports, presentations, websites, and more. It’s the successor of the highly successful, but R ...

Earlier this year, Posit (formerly RStudio) released Quarto. Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that allows you to weave together narrative text and code to produce high-quality outputs including reports, presentations, websites, and more. One of the main features of Quarto is that it isn’t just ...

The R Consortium caught up with Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck of the BernR User Group to talk about the challenges of organizing an R User Group during the pandemic. The group has... The post Regaining Momentum with In-Person Meetups appeared first on R Consortium.

Recently, I read a tweet that reports children who grow up in poor conditions earn much less as adults than those with better conditions. I believe one of the best ways to check that is to compare childhood education participation rates with wealth in related countries; in order to do ...

The R Consortium is happy to announce that on Nov 18th, 2022, the R Submissions Working Group successfully submitted a test submission package with a Shiny component through the FDA... The post UPDATE: Successful R-Based Package Submission with Shiny Component to FDA appeared first on R Consortium.

Overview In this post we first review the concept of semi-parametric copula and the accompanying estimation procedure of pseudo-likelihood estimation (PLE). We then generalize the estimation problem to the setting where the copula signal is hidden ...

This week, we’ve been reminding ourselves of some of the amazing talks from the Shiny in Production conference in October. The recordings are now up on our YouTube channel, for anyone to vie...

The pandemic (and turning 30) made me really start paying more attention to my health, and one of my resolutions was to go to the gym more consistently. It’s now been a little over a year. At the moment, my one-rep max for squats is about 1.5x my ...

Ho ho ho, it is the most wonderful time of the year: Advent of code! AOC is a yearly collection of programming puzzles throughout the first 25 days of December. I like it… so much so that I wrote an R package for completing my puzzles using the struct...

The detectCores() function of the parallel package is probably one of the most used functions when it comes to setting the number of parallel workers to use in R. In this blog post, I’ll try to explain why using it is not always a good idea. ...