Happy new year! The blog has a new look! Well it’s not that different on the surface. But under the hood, it is quite different indeed! My previous setup was: GitHub to host the code, on each push the build process would get started on Net...

      I confess to being fascinated by Taylor Swift for far more than her music. I think she is an extraordinary person for her philanthropy, her speaking out for victims of sexual assault, her advocacy of artists' ownershi...

I recently learned from Allen Downey’s blog that Our World in Data is providing API access to their data. Our World in Data hosts datasets across several important topics, from population and demographic change, poverty and economic development, to human … Continue reading →

Developing GxP-validated applications that comply with strict regulatory requirements has been a significant challenge in the past, particularly due to the lack of tooling around good software development practices. This is no longer the case, over the years, many tools have been developed to help R programmers follow good software ...

Hey Shiny Enthusiasts! ShinyConf 2025 is just around the corner, and we’re thrilled to invite you to be a part of it! Whether you’ve been working with Shiny for years or just dipped your toes into the world of interactive web apps, this is your chance to share your ...

The registration for the incoming, exciting, Bayes Comp 2025 conference (and its satellites) is now open, including information regarding accommodations for the conference. Early bird rates run till 15 March. Furthermore, the call for contributed talk...

R for SEO Part 9: Web Scraping With R & Rvest Hello, and welcome back. We’re (finally) in the home stretch of our R for SEO series with part nine, where we’re talking... This post was written by Ben Johnston on Ben Johnston

In December, one hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Agriculture, Biology, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Healthcare, Health Technology Assessment, Ma...

Gradient-Boosting and Boostrap aggregating anything (alert: high performance): Part5, easier install and Rust backend

This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences with, and advice for, first time cont...

The variance-covariance and the correlation matrices are two entities that describe the association between the columns of a two-way data matrix. They are very much used, e.g., in agriculture, biology and ecology and they can be easily calculated wi...

Photo by Marco Verch, CC-2.0. Source In a previous post, we looked at Dyson’s algorithm (Dyson 1946) for solving the Coins in Weighings problem : You have coins, to appearance exactly identical; but possibly one is counterfeit (we’l...

The fourth instalment of Shiny in Production is back this October, hosted at the Catalyst in Newcastle upon Tyne, with the super early bird deadline on the 31st of January! Set in the heart of Newcastle, this conference dives into the world of {s...