R-bloggers - Part 35

Musical Journey Through Numbers

April 6, 2025 | Asitav Sen

A Data-Driven Analysis of My Music Listening Habits My listening data from Apple Music reveals extensive engagement: over 450 songs from approximately 240 albums were played more than 6,700 times, totaling over 240 hours of music. This averages to roughly 1.6 hours of daily listening, with each song played about 44 times. This analysis, inspired by ...

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Electoral bonds data in charts

April 5, 2025 | Asitav Sen

Bonds worth ₹ 121 Billion purchase between Apr 2019 and Jan 2024 Data was downloaded from dataful. Rows without reference number or with status Expired are not considered in this analysis. Hence, there may be a variation between the numbers.of excluded data is available below Code highchart() |__ hc_chart(type = "sankey", inverted = FALSE) |__ ... [Read more...]

Three Tips for Better R Figures

April 5, 2025 | Boyd Tarlinton

Recently I shared my favourite ways to ensure your R plots look great in Quarto documents. Now I want to share my most commonly used tips for building effective and readable plots in R. As an example dataset I’ll be using chip_dataset.csv, downlo...

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Running aggregate on wide matrices takes loooong; use nested apply or data tables instead !

April 4, 2025 | Di Cook

The aggregate function can be very useful in R, allowing one to run a function (e.g. mean) within groups of rows, in each column in a matrix/data-frame and organize the results in an easy-to-read table. However, the function takes long to run for very ...

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Calculating the United State’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

April 4, 2025 | giles.dickenson.jones

Soon after Trump’s tariffs were announced, it was noted the ‘reciprocal’ tariffs looked suspiciously like the US trade deficit divided by imports. Ever the skeptic, I couldn’t believe it could be this simple, so I decided to check it out myself with the help of R and UN ...

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Resume

April 3, 2025 | Stencilled

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April 3, 2025 | Stencilled

Population pyramid plots with base R

April 3, 2025 | HighlandR

You will find the app demonstrating these pyramid plots here A brief timeline of this plot: It started off as a revised ggplot function for an internal charting package, with source data saved as parquet files. Then, because I wanted to tr... [Read more...]

See New BlueSky Statistics Features at The Quality Show and ASQ

April 2, 2025 | Bob Muenchen

BlueSky Statistics is easy-to-use software for statistics and machine learning. Behind the scenes it does all its work using the powerful R language. It can show you the code it writes, which you can modify for finer control. It comes in a free Base version and a commercial Pro version. ...

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Smart Extraction: Converting PDF Tables into Usable Data with R workshop

April 2, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Smart Extraction: Converting PDF Tables into Usable Data with R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Smart Extraction: Converting PDF Tables into Usable Data with R Date: Thursday, May 1st, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: ... [Read more...]

Observable for R users

March 31, 2025 | R on Nicola Rennie

Observable is a JavaScript-based reactive programming environment, commonly used for interactive data exploration, visualisation, and dashboards. You can create and publish Observable notebooks at observablehq.com (which is also a great place to look f... [Read more...]

Bayesian proportional hazards model for a stepped-wedge design

March 31, 2025 | Keith Goldfeld

We’ve finally reached the end of the road. This is the fifth and last post in a series building up to a Bayesian proportional hazards model for analyzing a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial. If you are just joining in, you may want to start at ...

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Should I Use Your R Package?

March 31, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

The answer to this simple, innocuous question is: it depends. It depends on the package in question, of course. Perhaps less obviously, but just as importantly, it depends on who’s asking the question. We’re sure if we asked you about...

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April Fool’s Day, and the Pythagorean Theorem

March 31, 2025 | Jerry Tuttle

Here is a post in honor of April Fools' Day, which unlike March 14, is celebrated by countries that use either the month-day format or the day-month format. Not everyone is a math per...

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Nonlinear conformalized Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) with R package ‘rvfl’ (and other models)

March 30, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Nonlinear conformalized Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) with R package 'rvfl' (and other models) [Read more...]

RObservations #51: Download Kaggle Datasets into the R Console with {RKaggle}

March 30, 2025 | Benjamin Smith

I recently found some R code in the TidyTuesday repository which pulled data from Kaggle directly into the R console and I thought the idea was incredible! After looking around and seeing that there was no packages that already did this, I was inspired to create the {RKaggle} package which ...

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Converting arbitrarily large CSVs to Parquet with R

March 30, 2025 | Michael Mayer

How to convert that huge csv to parquet? Now in R!

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File Management With The {fs} Package

March 29, 2025 | Albert Rapp

As data scientists we often have to deal with lots of tedious tasks. One such tedious task can be interacting with the file system on our computer or the remote machine we’re working with. Thankfully, the {fs} package has a bunch of convenvience... [Read more...]

Three Tips for Better Quarto Plots

March 28, 2025 | Boyd Tarlinton

If you regularly create Quarto documents, it s important to ensure that you can incorporate quality figures without spending a long time messing about. These are some of my favourite settings to ensure that my figures look great every time I rend...

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February 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

March 27, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

In February, one hundred fifty-nine new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in fifteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Genomics, Health Sciences, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Music,... [Read more...]

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