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One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so. So what’s new? In terms of English word matches: not much. Some new proteins but no new 9-letter words. The Twitter thread, above, contains an interesting reply ... [Read more...]

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Introduction Are you tired of manually calculating summary statistics for your data in R? Look no further! In this blog post, we will explore two powerful ways to summarize data: using the tapply() function and the group_by() and summarize() fun... [Read more...]

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I (only! but luckily!) recently got introduced to the magic of purrr::reduce(). Thank you, Tobias! I was told about it right as I was unhappily using many for loops in a package1, for lack of a better idea. In this post I’ll explain how purrr::re... [Read more...]

Introducing cran.dev shortlinks! On r-universe you can find package repositories from many different organizations and maintainers. But sometimes you just want to lookup a particular CRAN package, without knowing the developer. The new cran.dev shortlink service lets you navigate or link directly to the r-universe homepage and docs ... [Read more...]

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This post is the second one of a series of post about webR: Using webR in an Express JS REST API The Old Faithful Geyser Data shiny app with webR, Bootstrap & ExpressJS Note: the first post of this series explaining roughly what webR is,... [Read more...]

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We’re closing on on 400 books in the collection! A new Economics chapter has been added and some of the books previously in Finance have been moved here. This post rounds up 7 of the newest additions. Thanks to Lluís Revilla, Mario De Toma and Gary for their submissions: Deep … ... [Read more...]

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Introduction Calculating percentages by group is a common task in data analysis. It allows you to understand the distribution of data within different categories. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the process of calculating percentages b... [Read more...]

Following my recent post on three useful (to me) R patterns, I’ve written down three other things on a tiny sticky note. This post will allow me to throw away this beaten down sticky note, and maybe to show you one element you didn’t know? ... [Read more...]

One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is teaching R to our incoming analysts. These analysts are largely recent college graduates with a limited background in computer science and statistics. Historically my job has been to teach them the basics of the Tidyverse over 3 half-days. I’m writing ... [Read more...]

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