The R Consortium is pleased to announce that Katherine Jeschke has been appointed Chair of the Grants Committee. She will oversee day-to-day grant processes for both pre- and post-awards, ensuring... The post R Consortium Grants Committee Announces New Chair appeared first on R Consortium.

Rhino, the R package development framework created by Appsilon, has recently released two updates – versions 1.8 and 1.9. In this fireside chat, Kamil Żyła (one of the core developers of Rhino) and Marek Rogala (Appsilon’s Head of Technology) sit down to discuss these updates and the vision behind Rhino. Watch ...

Summary Installation From github From CRAN Getting started Adjacency matrix Non-spatial regression MCMC output Methods Spatial regression A filtering approach A bivariate mode...

PharmaRUG, China organizer Joe Zhu, spoke with the R Consortium about the growing R community and the increasing use of R in the pharmaceutical industry in China. The group has... The post Pharma RUG: The Rise of R in China’s Pharmaceutical Industry appeared first on R Consortium.

In September 2023, I wrote a blog post about creating typewriter-styled maps in {ggplot2}. It described the process of creating an elevation map where, instead of using colours to denote the different elevation levels, different letters of the alphabet...

dtplyr dtplyr hex sticker Author(s): Hadley Wickham, Maximilian Girlich, Mark Fairbanks, Ryan Dickerson, Posit Software PBC Maintainer: Hadley Wickham ([email protected]) Provides a data.table backend for dplyr. The goal of dtplyr is to a...

nc nc hex sticker Maintainer: Toby Dylan Hocking ([email protected]) User-friendly functions for extracting a data table (row for each match, column for each group) from non-tabular text data using regular expressions, and for ...

Motivation Coarse data Simulated example Real data example References Motivation A group of researchers from the Data Science Institute (DSI) at Hasselt University developed a new statistical model to estimate the incubation period of a pathogenic organism based on coarse data. The incubation period of an infectious disease (defined as ...

tidyfast tidyfast hex sticker Author(s): Tyson S. Barrett, Mark Fairbanks, Ivan Leung, Indrajeet Patil Maintainer: Tyson S. Barrett ([email protected]) The goal of tidyfast is to provide fast and efficient alternatives to some tidyr...

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” ― Alan Turing AI virtual assistants have become indispensable tools for both personal and professional settings. While Siri and Alexa are household names, the latest advancements in AI-powered virtual assistants offer capabilities ...

Introduction Hello, fellow R useRs! Today, we’re going to discuss a fascinating topic that bridges the gap between VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and R. We’ll explore how to get a list of all open workbooks in Excel using VBA and then call...

The Community Team, alongside a group of regular data.table contributors, is very please to announce a new Seal of Approval program! Our goal is to collect packages that significantly support, extend, or rely on data.table. We identify four broa...

Introduction When fitting a nonlinear regression model in R with nls(), the first step is to select an appropriate regression model to fit the observed data, the second step is to find reasonable starting values for the model parameters in order to initialize the nonlinear least-squares (NLS) algorithm. In some ...