2023

From Bits to Words: A Tale Computing and Communication Languages

February 7, 2023 | R on Harshvardhan

A ten-year-old kid was beginning his high school journey when he had to learn a third language. He was already learning two languages: his mother tongue Hindi and the common-speak English. But neither of them had prepared him for Sanskrit. [Read more...]

The Mandelbulb in R

February 7, 2023 | Stéphane Laurent

In this post, I provide some R code which generates a mesh of the Mandelbulb, a well-known 3D fractal. The Mandelbulb is an isosurface, and I use the rmarchingcubes package to get a mesh of ... [Read more...]

February Training Update

February 7, 2023 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

We have a great selection of online public training courses coming up over the next two months, including a variety of R courses, as well as some more stats-heavy courses on Bayesian Inference and...

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Grupo de Usuarios de R de Madrid Collaborates with the National R Congress in Spain

February 7, 2023 | R Consortium

Carlos Ortega, organizer of Grupo de Usuarios de R de Madrid (Madrid useR Group), shares about the thriving community in Madrid, Spain. Carlos highlights the group’s loyal members and the... The post Grupo de Usuarios de R de Madrid Collaborates with the National R Congress in Spain appeared first ...

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Using chatGPT in the teaching of R

February 7, 2023 | Karsten W.

I am currently focalising an introductory course in programming with R within my organisation. We use datacamp.com as a resource and meet online once a week to share. This week my input was an interaction with chatGPT, see below. My impression is tha... [Read more...]

Subsetting Named Lists in R

February 6, 2023 | Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Introduction In R, lists are a fundamental data structure that allows us to store multiple objects of different data types under a single name. Often times, we want to extract certain elements of a list based on their names, and this can be acco... [Read more...]

R programming for climate data analysis and visualization

February 6, 2023 | Ponne, Bruno

Introduction ‘Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect’ Steve Jobs Linear regression is one of the most popular tools in social data science. It has been used over the last decades to study how variables relate to each ot...

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Top 10 errors in R and how to fix them

February 6, 2023 | R on Stats and R

Introduction 1. Unmatched parentheses, curly braces, square brackets or quotes 2. Using a function that is not installed or loaded 3. Typos in function, variable, dataset, object or package names 4. Missing, incorrect or misspelled arguments in fun...

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What Does It Mean to Maintain a Package?

February 6, 2023 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Part of what we aim to do at rOpenSci is nurture a community of package maintainers who help each other. In addition to support during package maintenance, we also want to support maintainers who wish to move on. Situations can change, and there may c... [Read more...]

New preferred repo name for r-universe registries

February 6, 2023 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

This post is part of a series of technotes about r-universe, a new umbrella project by rOpenSci under which we experiment with various ideas for improving publication and discovery of research software in R. As the project evolves, we will post update... [Read more...]

Cumulative Measurement Functions with {TidyDensity}

February 5, 2023 | Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Introduction If you’re looking for an easy-to-use package to calculate cumulative statistics in R, you may want to check out the TidyDensity package. This package offers several functions to calculate cumulative measurements, including mean, med...

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Passing a function from R to C++

February 5, 2023 | Stéphane Laurent

The algebraicMesh function of my package cgalMeshes takes as inputs a trivariate polynomial \(P(x,y,z)\), a number \(\ell\) and some other parameters, and it returns a mesh of the isosurfa... [Read more...]

Cricket Weighted Batting Average in R

February 5, 2023 | Part Time Analyst

Hello, I hope you have your Yorkshire tea ready as today I am going to be exploring weighted averages using R. I used the code above to generate the table of the top 15 players by batting average in the 2022 county championship. Now the whole point of this blog is to ...

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Extending R with C++ and Fortran

February 4, 2023 | Rcpp Gallery

A recent social-media question by James Curran inquired about the best, or recommended ways, to extend R with Fortran code. Part of the question was whether the .Fortran() interface was still recommended or as there is ‘conflicting advice’ out there. ... [Read more...]

Data from the file drawer: Remembering case-sensitive and case-insensitive words

February 4, 2023 | R on Publishable Stuff

I’ve dug up an old, never published, dataset that I collected back in 2013. This dataset fairly cleanly shows that it’s harder to remember words correctly if you also have to remember the case of the letters. That is, if the shown word is B... [Read more...]

Probot: building a Mastodon bot

February 4, 2023 | quantixed

I have long admired albums2hear, a Twitter bot that posts albums. You can read a bit more about it here. There was no mastodon equivalent and so I decided to build one. You can follow the bot – currently called Albums Albums Albums (or AlbumsX3) – here. Idea behind the bot ... [Read more...]

Better and enhanced method of estimating Mallow’s Cp

February 3, 2023 | R-Blog on Data modelling to develop ...

Introduction In statistics, Mallows's Cp, named for Colin Lingwood Mallows, an English statistician, is used to assess the fit of a regression model that has been estimated using ordinary least squares. Models with a Mallows' Cp value near P+1 (i.e. ... [Read more...]

Deploy an R script as an AWS Lambda function without leaving the R console

February 3, 2023 | R | Discindo

Overview and motivation AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets us deploy any code as a cloud function without worrying about setting up a compute server (for example like discussed here and here). The code can be deployed as a zip archive or a container image. In the ... [Read more...]

Fixing my broken VSCode setup for R

February 3, 2023 | John MacKintosh

Here's how I set up the correct user settings and keybindings for using R in VSCode [Read more...]

The Argument Matcher: A Function for Selecting the Right Arguments {tidyAML}

February 2, 2023 | Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Introduction I am working on finishing up a few things with my new R package {tidyAML} before I release it to CRAN. One of those things is the ability of a user to build a model using a command that might be something like generate_model(). One ... [Read more...]

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2023

From Bits to Words: A Tale Computing and Communication Languages

The Mandelbulb in R

February Training Update

Grupo de Usuarios de R de Madrid Collaborates with the National R Congress in Spain

Using chatGPT in the teaching of R

Subsetting Named Lists in R

R programming for climate data analysis and visualization

Top 10 errors in R and how to fix them

What Does It Mean to Maintain a Package?

New preferred repo name for r-universe registries

Cumulative Measurement Functions with {TidyDensity}

Passing a function from R to C++

Cricket Weighted Batting Average in R

Extending R with C++ and Fortran

Data from the file drawer: Remembering case-sensitive and case-insensitive words

Probot: building a Mastodon bot

Better and enhanced method of estimating Mallow’s Cp

Deploy an R script as an AWS Lambda function without leaving the R console

Fixing my broken VSCode setup for R

The Argument Matcher: A Function for Selecting the Right Arguments {tidyAML}

2023

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