Note: A video explaining the content of this blog can be found here The computation of macroeconomic models is one which both fascinates and mystifies new students and scholars in this field. It certainly was a topic which seemed completely inaccessible to me without an advanced knowledge of algorithms and ...

We’re now three months on from the initial release of Diffify, and what a few months it’s been! We thought now seemed like a good time to give you an overview of the big updates that D...

Consider a shell game with three shells and a ball where only the location of the shell with the ball is exchanged with the location of an empty shell, randomly chosen. If one starts with the ball as rightmost, what is the distribution of the location of the ball after ...

🤘 Here’s my R Cheat Sheet for the tasks I find myself performing frequently:R Programming Cheat SheetR Cheat Sheet was originally published in Trevor French on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this ...

🤘 Here’s a quick guide on making API calls in R featuring Helium data.OutlineInstall PackagesRequire PackagesMake RequestParse & Explore DataAdding Parameters to RequestsAdding Headers to RequestsInstall Packageshttps://medium.com/media/c8936125ea6...

This code builds off the file built here: https://medium.com/@FrenchTrevor/reading-files-into-and-out-of-r-a5bc6fded44bFull code can be found at the bottom of the page.Video here: https://youtu.be/qK9hM9oEocMAdd a Column to a DataframeThis snippet demonstrates how to add a column to a dataframe in ...

Video Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibkBTqx3LW8The following code shows how to read a .CSV/.XLSX file into R, perform a manipulation, and write a new file out of R.#Clears environmentrm(list = ls(all.names = TRUE))#-----------------------------...

R Consortium recently talked to Tuli Amutenya of the Namibia R Users Group about the challenges of starting a group during the pandemic. She shared the struggle of keeping the... The post Namibia R Users Group: Fostering the Budding R Community in Namibia appeared first on R Consortium.

Summary A common task when working with transcriptomic data is the identification of differentially expressed (DE) genes or tags between groups. In this tutorial participants will learn how to perform biostatistical analysis with edgeR, including pairwise and analysis of variance (ANOVA) like comparisons to identify significantly DE genes. Questions What ...

Learn how to develop from scratch an interactive web interface in R shiny on August 31st. Shiny is the ever more popular approach to share R work, especially to business users without a technical background, that are required to make data-driven dec...

Trying to simulate data with non-linear relationships can be frustrating, since there is not always an obvious mathematical expression that will give you the shape you are looking for. I’ve come up with a relatively simple solution for somewhat comp...

Getting R set up on Linux can be somewhat frustrating. Many of the fundamental packages (like {devtools} or {remotes}) have implicit system dependencies. So installing these packages can involve numerous iterations back and forth between R and the shell while you figure out what those dependencies are and get them ...

Introduction Recently, RStudio announced its name change to Posit. For many this name change was accepted with open arms, but for some-not so. Being the statistician that I am I decided to post a poll on LinkedIn to see the sentiment of my network. After running the poll for a ...