2022 | R-bloggers

Simple R merge method and how to compare it with T-SQL

April 16, 2022 | tomaztsql

Merge statement in R language is a powerful, simple, straightforward method for joining data frames. Nevertheless, it also serves with some neat features that give R users fast data wrangling. I will be comparing this feature with T-SQL language, to…Read more ›

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Ever wondered how the probability of the null hypothesis being true changes given a significant result?

April 16, 2022 | Shravan Vasishth

TRIGGER WARNING: These simulations might fundamentally shake your belief system. USE WITH CARE. In a recently accepted paper in the open access journal Quantitative Methods for Psychology that Daniel Schad led, we discuss how, using Bayes' rule, one ca... [Read more...]

Trends in Back Pain

April 14, 2022 | Boiled Data

Brodeur, Abel, Andrew E Clark, Sarah Fleche, and Nattavudh Powdthavee. 2021. “COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends.” Journal of Public Economics 193: 104346. Ciaffi, Jacopo, Riccardo Meliconi, Maria Paola Landini, Luana Mancarella, Veronica Brusi, Cesare Faldini,... [Read more...]

6 Lessons that I learned from teaching R to non-programmers

April 14, 2022 | Albert Rapp

Last week, I gave a short workshop teaching R to Economics students without prior programming experience. On Twitter, I shared six lessons that I wish I had learnt before. This blog post is a more detailed account of my experience. Additionally, I incorporated many excellent suggestions from others on Twitter ...

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Appsilon Shiny Conference Panels

April 14, 2022 | Appsilon

The first annual Appsilon Shiny Conference – a conference for Shiny enthusiasts everywhere – is almost here. If you haven’t already, be sure to register and join the 1600+ Shiny users who’ve already registered. Discover the future of Shiny and how developers, researchers, and enterprises are making the most of their ...

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A simple introduction to ggplot2 (for plotting your data!)

April 14, 2022 | R on R (for ecology)

If you’ve ever been totally confused by ggplot2 and what it is or how it works, my intention is that this short tutorial simplifies it down to a conceptual level from which you can build up later. Hope you enjoy! Data visualization is a powerful...

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R-Ladies Cologne joins the family

April 13, 2022 | R-post on Cosima Meyer

R-Ladies Cologne is a new R-Ladies chapter which was founded in September 2021. It joins R-Ladies' mission to promote and support gender equality in the field. Together with Luciana and Gabe, we have hosted three events so far. Kicking it off, we had a... [Read more...]

Billionaires and Taxes

April 13, 2022 | R on Harshvardhan

Some Visualisation on Taxes by Rich [Read more...]

Billionaires and Taxes

April 13, 2022 | R on Harshvardhan

“Wealth inequality is increasing!”, “Rich people don’t pay enough taxes”, “THEY aren’t doing enough” — we have all heard these lines at some point in our life. Salaried people protesting against super-high taxes, college students protesting on behalf of everyone, and, of course, Bernie Sanders. How much do the ... [Read more...]

R-Ladies Cologne joins the family

April 13, 2022 | R-post | Dr. Cosima Meyer

R-Ladies Cologne is a new R-Ladies chapter which was founded in September 2021. It joins R-Ladies' mission to promote and support gender equality in the field. Together with Luciana and Gabe, we have hosted three events so far. Kicking it off, we had a...

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How to collect dataviz from Twitter into your note-taking system

April 13, 2022 | Albert Rapp

Intro It is mid-April and the #30daychartchallenge is well on its way. One glace at the hashtag’s Twitter feed suffices to realize that there are great contributions. That’s a perfect opportunity to collect data viz examples for future inspirations. Ideally, I can scroll through Twitter and with a ... [Read more...]

Benchmarking Data Tables

April 12, 2022 | R on The Data Sandbox

When I started learning R, I heard vague tales of the use of Data Tables. Really just whisperers, of something to consider in the future after I’ve become more proficient. Well now is the time to learn what if anything I’ve been missing out on. Intr... [Read more...]

Selection bias and observed values

April 12, 2022 | Posts | Jacob Simmering

I’m a man of a certain age and friend set, which means that I play a tabletop pen-and-paper roleplaying game called Pathfinder (similar to Dungeons and Dragons). You have a character with different values for strength, dexterity, constitution, charisma...

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Bayesian Estimation of Nelson-Siegel model using rjags R package

April 12, 2022 | sang-heon lee

This post shows how to use rjags R package to estimate Nelson-Siegel yield curve model based using a Bayesian MCMC in a compact way. Nelson-Siegel model and rjags R package We installed and used rjags R package and performed a Bay...

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Predicting Twenty 20 Cricket Result with Tidy Models

April 12, 2022 | Part Time Analyst

Hello, hope you have your Yorkshire tea to hand and sitting comfortably ready to read today’s blog. In it I am going to be doing some machine learning with tidymodels to predict the outcome of some twenty20 cricket matches. I am using the data from cricsheet as used in ...

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Windows update: JAGS 4.3.1 is released

April 12, 2022 | Martyn

JAGS version 4.3.1 is now available from Sourceforge. This is a patch update with a singular purpose: to allow a new Windows binary to be built using the Rtools42 toolchain. JAGS is built with the same compiler as R on … Continue reading → [Read more...]

R-spatial evolution: retirement of rgdal, rgeos and maptools

April 11, 2022 | Edzer Pebesma, Roger Bivand

Why this blog? Why rgeos and rgdal will retire Packages depending on rgeos and rgdal The Plan Packages depending on sp and raster [view raw Rmd] Summary: Packages rgdal, rgeos and maptools will retire by the end of 2023 . We describe wher... [Read more...]

Propensity Score Matching

April 11, 2022 | Analysis on StatsNotebook - Simple. Powerful. Reproducible.

The tutorial is based on R and StatsNotebook, a graphical interface for R. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for causal inference. In RCTs, randomisation removes all confoundings between the treatment (exposure) and control grou...

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The sftime Package

April 11, 2022 | Henning Teickner, Beneditk Gräler, Edzer Pebesma

Which gap does the sftime package fill? A motivating example Geometrical operations and subsetting Plotting Another motivating example: earthquake events The sftime class Object structure Conversion from...

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To impute or not: the case of an RCT with baseline and follow-up measurements

April 11, 2022 | Keith Goldfeld

Under normal conditions, conducting a randomized clinical trial is challenging. Throw in a pandemic and things like site selection, patient recruitment and patient follow-up can be particularly vexing. In any study, subjects need to be retained long...

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