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R version of 'Backpropagating quasi-randomized neural networks'

According to the graph below, suggested by Fernando Leibovici, the increase in uncertainty that began in late 2024 aligns with a rise in imports, indicating that US importers accelerated their purchases as a precaution against expected tariff increases or supply chain disruptions. When we model the variables with the glmnet engine, ...

Pie Chart… The unloved boy of visualization family. However, it is getting popularity especially when it is in conjuction with maps. For example, the following chart was publised by to illustrate the vote distribution across the country.

Kevin Flerlage, who is a data visualization specialist, suggested a great alternative to stacked bar plot on his blog. He called this new alternative “segmented total bar plot”. This R package ggsegmentedtotalbar implements this idea. The package is built on top of the ggplot2 package, which is a popular data ...

The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. This is the first of a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the futureverse ecosystem. The globals package is part of the futureverse and has had two recent rel...

There’s a little drip drip drip of scare stories about ultra-processed food (UPF) a phrase that I’d never heard until this year. I’m starting to get worried. Is everyone else worried? Well it turns out the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has been ru...

[Here is a reply to my comments on THAMES sent by the first author of the paper, Martin Metodiev. The above replica of the cover of Rivers of London is obviously unrelated with the reply or the original blog, beyond presenting a fantasy map of the Thames!] Thank you for ...

      You are probably familiar with the "Rule of 72" in investing: if an investment compounds at annual interest rate i, then the number of years for money to double is approximately 72 / i. For example, if an investmen...

It looks like a major update to {ggplot2} is coming (version 4.0.0), where Posit is switching the internals from S3 to S7. This will break many reverse dependencies of {ggplot2} (a reverse dependency is a package that depends on {ggplot2})...

A flexible hybrid approach to probabilistic stock forecasting that combines statistical model with ARCH effects, offering an alternative to traditional ARMA-GARCH models

We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration between the Bioconductor Training Committee and Physalia Courses, aimed at expanding access to high-quality training in bioinformatics and computational biology. This partnership builds on share...

As is often the case, it’s pretty easy to talk about “good” R packages. We can even wave our hands and talk about packages following “software standards” or “best practices”. But what does that mean? Most of us would agree that packages lik...

The kendallknight package introduces an efficient implementation of Kendall’s correlation coefficient computation, significantly improving the processing time for large datasets without sacrificing accuracy. The kendallknight package, following K...

Learn how to build a flash-card style question bank using Google Sheets as storage, R’s Plumber API, and host it on a Digital Ocean droplet—step-by-step setup, deployment, and tips. Motivations One of my colleagues wanted ...

Examples of use of ahead::mlf for univariate probabilistic time series forecasting