Introduction Yesterday I posted on using VBA to execute R code that is written inside of the VBA script. So today, I will go over a simple example on executing an R script from VBA. So let’s get into the code and what it does. First, let’s look ...

Most of the time, if there is a recession in an economy, it leads to a high unemployment rate, and then it triggers the over-qualified employment rate; Because people would feel financially insecure and they’d accept the first job that comes their way regardless of how the job suit ...

Introduction Today I am going to briefly go over an extremely simple example of running some R code via Excel VBA. Let’s start by discussing each line of code one by one: Sub CallRnorm() This line defines a subroutine called “CallRnorm”. A subro...

Secca come una fucilata: ``Ma tu non hai paura che ChatGPT ti rubi il posto di lavoro?''Sento una lievissima fitta agli addominali, è colpa evidentemente della panca bassa che abbiamo fatto stamattina a yoga, ma significa anche che la domanda mi ha fat...

I’ve posted in the past about analysing race results in R (most recently here). I ran the 2023 MK Marathon and wanted to have a look at the finishing times. The days of race results being made available as a csv or xls for easy analysis seem to be behind ...

The excitement of Formula 1 racing lies in the intense competition between drivers and teams as they navigate the twists and turns of each race to claim the coveted championship title. In recent years, data-driven predictions have become increasingly popular in sports, and F1 is no exception. Inspired by FiveThirtyEight’s ...

Last year I wrote a post about dockerizing {targets}’s pipelines (link to post) and between that blog post and this one, I’ve written a whole book on building reproducible analytical pipelines that you can read here (for free!). In the book I explain how you can build projects ...

The color vision deficiency emulation provided by R package colorspace was inaccurate for some highly-saturated colors due to a bug that was fixed in version 2.1-0. The (typically small) differences are illustrated for a range of palettes. ...

We all remember this, right? What a nightmare was to type a short message on these keypads. So, image writing Hello on this keypad, you had to press: 4433555555666 to get the letters “hello”. 44 = h33 = e555 =…Read more ›

7 May 2023 Thanks to Niels Ohlsen for for helping me add the books, and to Adejumo Ridwan Suleiman and Mokandil for their submissions. If you’d like to support the Big Book of R financially, you’re welcome to leave a donation at my Kofi account. Thank you very much to … ...

06.05.2023 A new release of Bio7 is available.The application Bio7 is a free and open-source integrated development environment for ecological modeling, scientific image analysis and statistical analysis. Beside other programming tools it contains a feature complete development environment for R with an advanced R editor, R developer tools and interfaces ...

This document describes a new feature in the R graphics engine to support rendering typeset glyphs. This provides a basis for developing improved text rendering ...

Learn how to program your own algorithms in R with us on June 22nd! With the 3rd Chapter of our “Introduction to R” learning path we continue our journey towards building strong R programming foundations and skills. “Programming R” workshop will all...