R-bloggers - Part 2

rOpenSci 2024 Highlights

January 21, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

In 2024, we remained committed to open science and open source software. We continued to build a welcoming and inclusive community, through innovation and collaboration. Here are the highlights of the year: R-Universe R-Universe, rOpenSci’s pla... [Read more...]

Monte Carlo [exam]

January 21, 2025 | xi'an

My final exam for the Monte Carlo course I taught last semester proved too much of a challenge for my fourth year students, despite being rather elementary and centred on accept-reject algorithms and importance/bridge sampling. One of the problems was a decomposition of the truncated Normal simulation method proposed ...

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Remembering Friedrich “Fritz” Leisch

January 21, 2025 | Achim Zeileis

Our friend and colleague Fritz Leisch died in April last year. In a new contribution to The R Journal we honor Fritz and commemorate his many contributions to science in general and to the R community in particular. Citation Be... [Read more...]

Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors

January 20, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

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...

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Hello admiralmetabolic!

January 20, 2025 | Anders Askeland

Introduction The ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} team is celebrating the newest addition to the extension package family with the release of Metabolism Extension Package for ADaM in R Asset Library • admiralmetabolic {admi...

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Tabular ML in R: an overview of tidymodels in R for tabularized data workshop

January 20, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Tabular ML in R: an overview of tidymodels in R for tabularized data, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Tabular ML in R: an overview of tidymodels in R for tabularized data Date: Thursday, February 20th, 18:00 – 20:00 ... [Read more...]

Get Better: R for cell biologists

January 20, 2025 | Stephen Royle

How can we teach “R for cell biologists” rather than teaching R to cell biologists? I’ve noticed that many R training courses will teach R – regardless of who is taking the course – and leave it to the participants to figure out how they can use R in their own ...

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R For SEO Part 8: Apply Methods in R

January 20, 2025 | Ben Johnston

R For SEO Part 8: Apply Methods in R Welcome back again. Now we’re at part eight of my series on R for SEO and we’ve been on quite a journey... This post was written by Ben Johnston on Ben Johnston

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rOpenSci 2024 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

January 19, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Maintaining Community Trust and Safety The rOpenSci community is supported by our Code of Conduct with a clear description of unacceptable behaviors, instructions on how to make a report, and information on how reports are handled. We, the Code of Co... [Read more...]

Just got a paper on conformal prediction REJECTED by International Journal of Forecasting despite evidence on 30,000 time series (and more). What’s going on? Part2: 1311 time series from the Tourism competition

January 19, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Extensive benchmark based on 1311 time series from the Tourism competition, comparing the splitconformal method to the state of the art.

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From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS

January 19, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

How to join this free online event with Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, Yaoxiang Li and Hugo Gruson. Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating. When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSc...

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From code to conversation: Localized AI fun with LM Studio and the ellmer package

January 19, 2025 | giles.dickenson.jones

Summary: in this post I demonstrate how you can interact with locally hosted LLM models in R using the ellmer package and LM Studio.

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Seven tips for creating Quarto revealjs presentations

January 18, 2025 | R | Dr Tom Palmer

Introduction Like alot of lecturers I’m teaching at the moment. If I have a presentation to do that’s mainly images I’ll use Powerpoint or Google Slides. If the presentation includes maths or code or both I used to use LaTeX Beamer. Over the years ...

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Flowcharts made easy with the package {flowchart}

January 17, 2025 | Pau Satorra

In health research, a flowchart is the best way to show the flow of participants in a study when reporting results. But drawing flowcharts can be tedious to prepare and can get on your nerves. Fortunately, there are several packages in R for drawing flowcharts using different approaches. The problem ... [Read more...]

Using fuzzyjoin to work with NCES data

January 16, 2025 | John Russell

Tidy data structure, messy data Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way. - Hadley Wickham We often work with datasets where there is a unique identifier that can be used to link or filter the... [Read more...]

{admiral} 1.2 is here!

January 16, 2025 | Ben Straub

Introduction As crazy as it may sound, the ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} package is nearing its third CRAN birthday: our first release dates all the way back to 17th February 2022! Time really does fly when you’re programming ...

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My experience of getting codechecked

January 16, 2025 | Netherlands eScience Center

By eScience Fellow Eduard KlapwijkThis year I was finalizing and publishing one of my own research projects. My coauthors and I took many steps to make the project as reproducible as possible.Because I am setting up a codecheck workflow to check the re...

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Best Prompt Engineering Books

January 15, 2025 | R Archives » Data Science Tutorials

The post Best Prompt Engineering Books appeared first on Data Science Tutorials Unravel the Future: Dive Deep into the World of Data Science Today! Data Science Tutorials. Best Prompt Engineering Books, Prompt engineering is a rapidly growing field that focuses on crafting high-quality input prompts to elicit accurate and informative ... [Read more...]

Amazon vs. MicroStrategy

January 15, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

According to the simulation results, MicroStrategy has had a positive trend with less volatility for the last ten years compared to AMAZON, which has had a negative trend with high volatility. Source code: [Read more...]

A collaborative triumph: Re-using test data between the NEST and admiral teams

January 14, 2025 | Joe Zhu

Introduction In the dynamic world of clinical research, innovation and collaboration are key drivers of success. The NEST and ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} teams exemplify this through their groundbreaking packages. By levera...

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