R-bloggers

I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months. As with the first edition, I’ve posted a complete draft of the book at its website...

We are releasing the first version of Leptodon, our Leptos UI toolkit, into the wild. This release of Leptodon contains UI components for general application development. However, the end goal is to make Leptodon capable enough to easily build comple...

🧪 Diving into PK/PD for the first time — simulating ceftriaxone with mrgsolve in R. Free drug levels were… surprisingly high? Even pushed it to q48h dosing out of curiosity and the results left me with more questions than answers 🤔📈 Motivations Learning pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmocodynamics (PD) have always been ...

Explaining Time-Series Forecasts with Exact Shapley Values (ahead::dynrmf with external regressors applied to macroeconomic scenarios)

This post is the sixth of a series of seven on population issues in the Pacific, re-generating the charts I used in a keynote speech before the November 2025 meeting of the Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics in Wellington, New Zealand. The seven ...

OS Software Solutions Pillar Firstly, if you’re reading this wondering what do we mean by a “pillar” then check our introductory blog here. Our OS Software Solutions pillar aims to ensure the industry has a curated ecosystem of open source so...

In the previous post, I argued that understanding TMLE starts with understanding how estimation error behaves. In particular, we saw that influence functions allow us to separate sampling variability from nuisance estimation error. But something subtle...