2023

Improved permanent URL schema for r-universe.dev

January 29, 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 updates to document features and technical details. For more ... [Read more...]

Snow in Montréal (Canada)

January 29, 2023 | arthur charpentier

Winter started a bit more than one month ago… but we have already experienced many snow storms… there is still a lot snow in gardens and in the streets, I was wondering if it was that unusual, but apparently not. Compared with last year, it is (for the first months ...

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An R function to compute Tumor Mutational Burden (TMB)

January 28, 2023 | fabiomarroni

Tumor mutational (or mutation) burden, TMB, is considered a useful estimation of tumor neoantigenic load (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6336005/) and a biomarker of sensitivity to immune checkpoint inhibitors (https://genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13073-017-0424-2). Computing TMB is relatively easy. Together with a ... [Read more...]

GooglyPlusPlus: Win Probability using Deep Learning and player embeddings

January 28, 2023 | Tinniam V Ganesh

In my last post ‘GooglyPlusPlus now with Win Probability Analysis for all T20 matches‘ I had discussed the performance of my ML models, created with and without player embeddings, in computing the Win Probability of T20 matches. With batsman & bowler embeddings I got much better performance than without the embeddings ...

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Spaghetti Code Dieting Tips

January 28, 2023 | giles.dickenson.jones

As an independent consultant the majority of my work is about solving novel problems faced by my clients. At a basic level, a client has a question they need answered or a problem they’d like solved and my job is to develop something that meets their needs (given the ...

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Update of the ‘cgalMeshes’ package

January 27, 2023 | Stéphane Laurent

I made some progress on the cgalMeshes package, that I introduced here. The new version is not on CRAN yet. In particular, one can know assign some properties to the meshes (the cgal... [Read more...]

latest math stats exam

January 27, 2023 | xi'an

As I finished grading our undergrad math stats exam (in Paris Dauphine) over the weekend, which was very straightforward this year, the more because most questions had already been asked on weekly quizzes or during practicals, some answers stroke me as atypical (but ChatGPT is not to blame!). For instance, ...

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Hello Data Scientists from Germany – eoda is hiring

January 27, 2023 | eoda GmbH

We are hiring: Senior Data Scientist, Data Scientist, Project Manager in Data Science Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data – these are the buzzwords you hear every day. But for you they are more than just buzzwords? You are familiar with the methods, technologies and working methods behind them, know ...

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SHAP + XGBoost + Tidymodels = LOVE

January 27, 2023 | Michael Mayer

tidymodels and shapviz to explain XGBoost models

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Has your knowledge stopped updating?

January 27, 2023 | nsaunders

Some years ago I read an article – I forget where – describing how our general knowledge often becomes frozen in time. Asked to name the tallest building in the world you confidently proclaim “the Sears Tower!”, because for most of your childhood that was the case – never mind that the record ... [Read more...]

Service Line Grouping with {healthyR}

January 26, 2023 | Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Introduction Healthcare data analysis can be a complex and time-consuming task, but it doesn’t have to be. Meet {healthyR}, your new go-to R package for all things healthcare data analysis. With {healthyR}, you can easily and efficiently analyze... [Read more...]

Improving the responsiveness of Shiny applications

January 26, 2023 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

What do we mean by “responsiveness”? Confusingly (and rather unhelpfully) when it comes to web applications there are two different topics that may be referred to by the terms “r...

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Updating Style Guide

January 26, 2023 | Avi

After much deliberation, I have updated my personal R code style guide to no longer mandate functions begin with uppercase letters. While I still feel there is value in being able immediately differentiate functions from variables, too much of base R does not follow that convention and one loses more ...

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Transforming Your Data: A Guide to Popular Methods and How to Implement Them with {healthyR.ai}

January 25, 2023 | Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH

Introduction Transforming data refers to the process of changing the scale or distribution of a variable in order to make it more suitable for analysis. There are many different methods for transforming data, and each has its own specific use ca...

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Making headlines

January 25, 2023 | HighlandR

In my current mammoth work project, I’m generating many plots. The titles are very descriptive (they tell you what the plot is about), but they are not really telling a story. That’s simply because there are so many on the production line. ...

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Making headlines

January 25, 2023 | John MacKintosh

Using the headliner package for data driven ggplot titles

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nanonext – High Performance Persistent HTTP Sessions

January 25, 2023 | shikokuchuo

Shikokuchuo Persistent http(s) sessions is a new feature added in nanonext 0.7.3. This allows for efficient polling by keeping an open connection with the server, transacting as and when needed. Provides an ideal, low-latency solution to request...

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Why comment your code as little (and as well) as possible

January 25, 2023 | Posts on R-hub blog

When I first started programming, I clearly remember feeling I had to add comments, that would repeat exactly what the code below was doing, as if it were the script for some sort of voice over. I want you to know like I now do that it’s not the ... [Read more...]

Comeback! Reviving the Warwick R User Group with In-Person and Online Events

January 25, 2023 | R Consortium

Dr. Heather Turner of the Warwick R User Group (also on Twitter) recently talked to the R Consortium about the group’s struggle to stay active amid the pandemic. With the... The post Comeback! Reviving the Warwick R User Group with In-Person and Online Events appeared first on R Consortium.

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Safe-and-simple cleaning of species occurrences

January 25, 2023 | A.M. Barbosa

In my species distribution modelling courses, for a quick and safe removal of the most common biodiversity database errors, I’ve so far used functions from the scrubr R package, namely ‘coord_incomplete’, ‘coord_impossible’, ‘coord_unlikely’, ‘coord_imprecise’ and ‘coord_uncertain’. There are other R … Continue reading →

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2023

Improved permanent URL schema for r-universe.dev

Snow in Montréal (Canada)

An R function to compute Tumor Mutational Burden (TMB)

GooglyPlusPlus: Win Probability using Deep Learning and player embeddings

Spaghetti Code Dieting Tips

Update of the ‘cgalMeshes’ package

latest math stats exam

Hello Data Scientists from Germany – eoda is hiring

SHAP + XGBoost + Tidymodels = LOVE

Has your knowledge stopped updating?

Service Line Grouping with {healthyR}

Improving the responsiveness of Shiny applications

Updating Style Guide

Transforming Your Data: A Guide to Popular Methods and How to Implement Them with {healthyR.ai}

Making headlines

Making headlines

nanonext – High Performance Persistent HTTP Sessions

Why comment your code as little (and as well) as possible

Comeback! Reviving the Warwick R User Group with In-Person and Online Events

Safe-and-simple cleaning of species occurrences

2023

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