01.04.2022 A new version of Bio7 is available. The application Bio7 is a free and open-source integrated development environment for ecological modeling, scientific image analysis and statistical analysis.   Bio7 3.4 Release Notes General Bio7 3.4 based on Eclipse RCP 4.23 Bundled with Adoptium JDK 17 MacOSX M1 built available (64-bit) Improved dark theme (e.g., ... ...

Back in February I discussed a package I was working on which allowed users to add logging to function calls. I named the package {loudly} but decided to rename it to {chronicler}. I have been working on it for the past few weeks, and I think that a CRAN release ...

A horizon chart is a compact version of an area chart. In the words of Jonathan Schwabish (Reference 1, page 164), it is … an area chart that is sliced into equal horizontal intervals and collapsed down into single bands, … Continue reading →

I sit here looking for inspiration, nothing interesting to write about. Perhaps there are some popular R packages on CRAN that I don’t know about? You can explore the data on downloads from CRAN with the cranlogs package. Top CRAN downloads With the...

Visualizing big data is next to impossible. As soon as I have 12 plots, that’s where my ability to use native ggplot suffers. That is until I found trelliscopejs. trelliscopejs is like ggplot2 faceting on steroids. This may seem crazy, but the benefit...

Data scientists spend a lot of time creating apps, dashboards, and reports. All of this effort is often hampered by siloed workflows between coworkers and across teams, which leads to delays in presenting your insights to stakeholders and clients. After all that time and effort, are you even sure what ...

“A worldwide epidemiological database for COVID-19 at fine-grained spatial resolution” by COVID-19 Data Hub developer, Emanuele Guidotti was published in Scientific Data on the March 28, 2022, and is available... The post COVID-19 Data Hub Paper Published in Nature Scientific Data appeared first on R Consortium.

Today we bring you 7 dashboard examples of R Shiny in life sciences. R Shiny is one of the easiest ways for developers to make production-ready dashboards when speed and functionality are crucial. Shiny is approachable with a lot of documentation available, and because of this, a lot of developers/researchers ...

We often want to search for a certain character pattern in our data. We do this all the time when we press “ctrl + F” (or “cmd + F” for a mac) on a webpage. For example, maybe you have a list of species names and want to find al...

It seems like an age ago, but in fact it was only mid-January 2022 when this happened: The answers are yes and yes again. One excellent source of weather station data is the Weather Underground. They used to have an API which could be accessed through an R package, rwunderground. This ...

So, I found a great video from Storytelling with Data (SWD). In this video, a data storyteller demonstrates how a dataviz that does not demonstrate a clear story can be improved. Let’s take a look at the dataviz but, first, here’s the data.

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I have tried to venture into Python several times over the years. The language itself seems simple enough to learn but as someone who has only ever used R (and a bit of Stata), there were two things that held me back: I never really found an IDE th...

As I mentioned last time, I am working on an update of simstudy that will make generating survival/time-to-event data a bit more flexible. I previously presented the functionality related to competing risks, and this time I’ll describe generating su...

R Consortium talked to Bolaram Paul of the Sylhet R User Group about the challenges faced by the group because of the pandemic. As a group focused on physical events,... The post Sylhet R User Group in Bangladesh Hopes to Get Back on Track with Physical Events appeared first on ...

Unfortunately, we have been through tough times recently as going on Russian invasion in Ukraine. As Putin stacked to the corner via sanctions and lost in the field, he has been getting to be more dangerous. He has even threatened to use nuclear weapons if necessary. Because of the nuclear ...