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Calling C++ functions from R using Rcpp

December 23, 2024 | Adam Gladstone

If you are an R/RStudio user and you are learning C/C++ then this blog post may be interesting. Suppose that you've written a function in C/C++ (or even a whole program). You know how to run your code from the command line, passing in arguments and so ...
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Introducing the {pipeflow} package

December 21, 2024 | R some blog

Efficiently managing complex data analysis workflows can be a challenge. In standard R programming, chaining functions, tracking intermediate results, and maintaining dependencies between steps often lead to cluttered code that is difficult to scale or... [Read more...]

Version 1.3.0 of NIMBLE released

December 21, 2024 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC, Laplace approximation, and SMC). Version 1.3.0 provides some new and improved functionality, plus some ...
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The Perplexed Banker

December 19, 2024 | Nina Zumel

From Henry Dudeney’s “Perplexities” article in the March 1925 issue of The Strand Magazine: A man went into a bank with 1,000 silver dollars and 10 bags. He said, “Place this money, please, in the bags in such a way that if I call and ask for a...
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Introducing Rlinguo, a native mobile app that runs R

December 18, 2024 | Colin Fay

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Introducing Rlinguo, a native mobile app that runs R TL;DR Rlinguo is a groundbreaking mobile application that uses R in the backend to handle its business logic. Available for download now: iOs on ... [Read more...]

November 2024 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

December 17, 2024 | Joseph Rickert

One hundred ninety-four new packages made CRAN’s final cut in November. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Botany, Climate Analysis, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Education, Environment, Epidemiology, Genomics, Health Techn...
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Nice meeting!

December 17, 2024 | xi'an

The ICSDS 2024 meeting in Nice is quite impressive and not primarily because it is in Nice under a beautiful December sun. As other (numerous) IMS meetings I attended (since the initial one in Uppsala in 1990!), the program is of high quality and along topics that are currently moving fast or ...
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Rotate the damn plot

December 17, 2024 | Ilya Kashnitsky

Several days ago I saw a post on LinkedIn by Jornt Mandemakers with some very curious results from Gender and Generations Programme surveys. While representing interesting data, it was a perfect example of a way too common academic dataviz fallacy, an...
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