R Consortium recently talked to Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez of Seville R User Group (also on Twitter) about the growth of the group over the years and the challenges of online events.... The post R Users Group Seville, Spain Looks Forward to Interactive Hybrid Events in the Future appeared first on R ...

I am happy to announce that our paper entitled “Semi-Markov modeling for cancer insurance” has been accepted for publication in the European Actuarial Journal. Advancements in medicine and biostatistics have already resulted in a better access to ...

R Shiny allows developers to write production-ready dashboards in no time, and for any use case. It’s not rare to find a vast number of dashboards in business-related domains, such as sales and marketing, but the possibilities don’t end there. Today we bring you seven curated examples of ...

Many of you have already used any programming or scripting language. And you can tell that, there are some functionalities that are intuitive (for loops, enumerations, collections, …), data types and also short-hands. One of these data types is a…Read more ›

The morning before work was super productive and there is a nigh-complete DSL for ESC/POS commands along with the ability to just print {ggplot2}/{grid} object. I changed the package name to {escpos} since it is no longer just plot object focused, and the DSL looks a bit like ...

Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash Data science and programming languages like R and Python are some of the most in-demand skills in the world. RStudio Cloud is a simple but powerful solution for teaching and learning analytics at scale. RStudio Clo...

News from R packages ESGtoolkit, ycinterextra, and Python/R package nnetsauce

In the previous post I ran through the process of setting up a Mailfence account for encrypting emails. In this post I show how Mailfence can be used with the {emayili} package for sending encrypted email from R.

At the end of March, I caught a fleeting tweet that showcased an Epson thermal receipt printer generating a new “ticket” whenever a new GitHub issue was filed on a repository. @aschmelyun documents it well in this blog post. It’s a pretty cool hack, self-contained on a Pi Zero. ...

It is that time of the year when there is “a song in the air, the lark’s on the wing, and the snail’s on the the thorn“. Yes, it is the that time of year when the grand gala event of IPL 2022 is underway. So, I managed to ...

"R Python" continued... DuckDB: Quacking SQL

R-4.2.0 is due to be released! Another year has passed, which means an updated version of R is due to be released - R version 4.2.0. As usual there have been many changes and improvements over the last year. This blog post only picks out a tiny handful, but there are ...

The R Consortium is pleased to announce the new 2022 R User Groups (RUGs), Conferences and Training program. This is an updated version of the RUGS program of previous years... The post Announcing the New R User Groups, Conferences, and Training Program appeared first on R Consortium.

The first 2022 call for proposals for R Consortium Infrastructure Steering (ISC) grants is now open and will be accepting proposals through May 1, 2022. This year, the R Consortium has... The post ISC Call for Proposals – Now Accepting Applications appeared first on R Consortium.