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 ...

What a week! Thank you for a fantastic rstudio::conf(2022). It was so exciting to learn and share with you during these eventful four days. This post will share some of the big announcements from RStudio. We will highlight amazing packages, resources, ...

I’m building a model which requires historical weather data from a selection of locations in South Africa. In this post I demonstrate the process of acquiring the data and doing some simple processing.

Many studies suggest that white, pink and brown noise can improve focus, help with relaxation and sleep and even reduce crying in babies. Due to these potential benefits many options are available to generate color noise, including sound machines, p...

This is part two of our two part series Part 1: Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 1 Part 2: Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 2 (this post) In Part 1 of this two-post blog series I c...

Quarto is next generation R Markdown that brings interactivity to documents using widgets, Observable, and Shiny. Let's see how to add server side execution to your Docker containers.

From time to time we all need some fun, so why not make some funny graphs since we are R users, yeah! This post is based on the tutorials on R CHARTS, do not forget to pick a look. Bar dogs First I want to show you how to add ...