Vincent Guyader talked to the R Consortium about his background with the R language, describing his acquisition of experience and skills in developing solutions to scientific and industrial problems. He... The post Using R to Develop Solutions for Industrial Problems appeared first on R Consortium.

Researchers are not born engineers — why are they expected to know how to code?During my time as a cognitive neuroscience researcher, I learned coding by doing. To answer most of my research questions, I wrote code in R. I knew it wasn’t great code, wi...

Introduction In the previous post we allowed users to choose a distribution and a plot type. Now, we want to allow users to download a .csv file of the data that is generated. In the UI, we added a downloadButton with outputId = "download_data" ...

You had a great idea how to help your coworkers optimize their work. You’ve built an app and deployed it in a production server. Now you wait for some signs of success: your happy colleagues praising the app or recommending it to others. But the messages of praise don’...

The R Consortium gives grants to help R User Groups (RUGS) around the world organize, share information, and support each other. We are currently accepting applications!  The R Consortium RUGS... The post The 2023 RUGS Program is awarding grants for 2023! appeared first on R Consortium.

I am happy to announce that my new R package, zctaCrosswalk, is now on CRAN. This package contains the US Census Bureau’s 2020 ZCTA to County Relationship File, as well as convenience functions to translate between States, Counties and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs). You can install the package like ...

Introduction Shiny is an R package that allows you to create interactive web applications from R code. In this blog post, we’ll explore the different components of a Shiny application and show how they work together to create an interactive data...

This post is part of the series maps-app. You can also find the current state of the project under my GitHub repo mapic. Scope of this post We are creating maps of data showing changes over a span of time for different countries and pointing at all kinds of cities. ...

Clinical research studies and healthcare economics studies are frequently concerned with assessing the prognosis for survival in circumstances where patients suffer from a disease that progresses from state to state. Standard survival model...

You can find all the posts on this series under the tag maps-app (including the Spanish versions). You can also find the current state of the project under my GitHub repo mapic. Scope of this post We are creating maps of data showing changes over a spa...

Interactive map and R package enable the research community with new insights about the ocean Global Fishing Watch is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance through increased... The post Global Fishing Watch Helps Protect Critical Marine Ecosystems Through Open Data and Innovative Technology appeared first on R ...

Today’s TidyTuesday relates to the use of plants in the Neolithic era and is based on a paper by Arranz-Otaegul and Roe. The authors have made their data and analysis available on GitHub. The methods for generating all the figures and tables are in an RMarkdown document with some ...

In recent discussions with a number of collaborators at the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory about setting the sample size for a proposed cluster randomized trial, the question of variable cluster sizes has come up a number of times. Given a fixed overall s...

I often come across GBIF users who are unaware that the records available for a given taxon are not necessarily all presences: there’s a column named “occurrenceStatus” whose value can be “PRESENT” or “ABSENT”! The absence records can, of course, … Continue reading →

Just some simple codes to illustrate some points we will discuss this week, for the last course on GLMs, before the final exam.  We have mentioned that the Gamma distribution belongs to the exponential, so we can run a regression, and compute the associated AIC, __ set.seed(123) __ test.data = rgamma(...

CLV leads businesses to the most valuable customers, those who will continue to spend money with them for years to come. By understanding how much these customers are worth over time, businesses can create strategies to keep them happy and eng...

WebR has a template for React, but I’m not a fan of it or Vue (a fact longtime readers are likely tired of hearing right about now). It’s my opinion and experience that Lit webcomponents come closer to “bare metal” webcomponents, which means the “lock-in” with Lit is ...