In a hospital, 9% of all patients have Covid-19. But: Among the heavy smokers among these patients, only 6% have Covid-19. What? Does smoking reduce your risk of getting Covid? Another example: I recently saw a post on Twitter with a line graph showing that, in the UK, persons aged 18 to 59 who ...
With October 2021 version of R Studio (2021.09.1 Preview) a great and – in my personal opinion – long awaited features is now available – multi windows or multi panes for viewing the R code. On R studio home page,…Read more ›
I recently had to recreate a report which was originally produced in Excel. This is currently being converted to pdf and emailed out each morning.
Initially I was thinking that a flexdashboard solution would be called for, but on seeing the...
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Welcome to RStudio Community Monthly Events Roundup, where we update you on upcoming events happening at RStudio this month. Missed the great talks and presentations from last month? Find them listed under ICYMI: De... [Read more...]
I recently had to recreate a report which was originally produced in Excel. This is currently being converted to pdf and emailed out each morning. Initially I was thinking that a flexdashboard solution would be called for, but on seeing the report it was mainly tables, which the audience liked, ...
“Google Season of Docs (GSoD) provides support for open source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source.” (Source: Program website)
The New York Times had a [tragic] story on Covid deaths today and one of their plots really stuck with me for how well it told that part of the story. NOTE: The red panel highlights are off a bit as I manually typed the data in (I only did ...
With the new year, I’m hoping more of you take up learning R, so with that I want to share a tutorial from my course on an introduction to data visualization with R to help get you started.
If you are completely new to R and don’t even ...
Kind of sad, but the same intro which served last year, befits this year also. Littered with Corona, this year was not easy. But looking around me, I feel grateful. The following quote by Socrates comes to mind: “If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone ...
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Naive approach forecasting example, A naïve forecast is one in which the forecast for a pa... [Read more...]
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Systematic Sampling in R, Systematic sampling is a sort of probability sampling in w... [Read more...]
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Happy New Year! As we’re settling back into our routines, we wanted to share some highlights of the work done across the company last year. This is just a few of our teams’ great accomplishments in supporting the R...
Welcome to the new year! If you’re itching to improve your R skills in 2022, we have the resource for you.
We’re excited to share the Big Book of R. “Your last-ever bookmark”, the Big Book of R is an impressive collection of R-related books from a variety of ...
We are happy to announce that mlr3spatial has been released on CRAN in November 2021.
mlr3spatial simplifies the handling of spatial objects in the mlr3 ecosystem.
Before mlr3spatial, the user had to extract tabular data from spatial objects to tra...
Over the past couple of years, I have been working with an amazing group of investigators as part of the CONTAIN trial to study whether COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) can improve the clinical status of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and requiring noninvasive supplemental oxygen. This was a multi-site study in ...
The below earlier LinkedIn post of well-defined nonlinear Stealth Support indicated price evolution for natural gas (UNG) was highly likely on an unsustainable trajectory. Within a month of the post, the market breached its well-defined Stealth Support Curve. In the 3 months that followed, this market lost 42% of its value. The ...
[Author: Madan G. Kundu] In practice, survival times may be influenced by a combination of baseline variables. Survival trees (i.e., trees with survival data) offer a relatively flexible approach to understanding the effects of covariates, including their interaction, on survival times when the functional form of the association is ...
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Eta Squared in R, Eta squared is a commonly-used effect size metric in ANOVA models. It is calculated as follows: ... [Read more...]
Due to the high amount of packages in the mlr3 ecosystem, it is hard to keep up with the latest changes across all packages.
This posts gives an overview by listing the recent release notes of mlr3 packages from the last quarter.
Note that only CRA... [Read more...]