R-bloggers

 In this post I show how getGender(), function can be used for inferring the gender of  the studied subjects from their binary alignment bam files. The gender can be a source of unwanted variation within the data, for which you may want to ad...

Introduction In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to save and close an Excel workbook using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and then doing it from R. We’ll create a simple VBA script that saves and closes a workbook, and then we’ll call this ...

Are you still conducting runtime benchmarks in R through manual calls to `Sys.time()`? We don’t judge, but there’s a way more powerful and automated way to do the same – and more – with fewer lines of code. Meet R Microbenchmark – a package that compares the execution of your ...

#199–200PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #199Data mining, maybe it is too big word for challenge we face today, but we need to dig up some informat...

Recently I have started to organize my commonly used functions related to quality assessment and analyzing RNAseq data into an R package. It is called rnatoolbox and it is available here. In this post I introduce getMappedReadsCount(), i.e. a function ...

Recent discussions within the R Consortium Submission Working Group have highlighted challenges in handling dates between SAS and Unix systems. In addition, during the CDISC Pilot Data update at the Phuse Test Data Factory, using R’s Unix time...

Introduction To borrow a term from Hyndman, the following is going to come out as a bit of a muddle. However, that may be the honest way to survey a muddled situation. I am going to write on time series problems and solvers, try to run some details to ground, […]

The word “universe” can mean many different things. In modern-day entertainment, we are conditioned to think of it as related movies or media tied together by the tried-and-true formula of post-credits scenes and character crossovers. Speaking of entertainment, read more about how we helped a Fortune 500 movie studio with their ...

Puzzles no. 494–498PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #494Sometimes we are exploring new types of numbers, that although they are integers, they have...

GitHub recently previewed ‘Copilot Workspace’, which aims to use generative AI to assist software developers. Rather than just giving in-line suggestions, as GitHub copilot does, workspace allows users to map out and execute entire projects. We ...

This sample R code is an implementation one of possible solutions for generating timetable schedule. The proposed solution is based on methods of evolutionary computing, and it uses (1+1) evolutionary strategy and simulated hardening. The success of solution is estimated…Read more ›

The R Consortium recently spoke with Samrit Pramanik of the Kolkata R User Group about his experience starting a new R User Group in India. Samrit highlighted Kolkata’s rich history... The post Kolkata R User Group: A Rich History with Statistics  appeared first on R Consortium.

We’re excited to announce the release of Rhino 1.9, bringing with it some powerful new features for developers. This update focuses on enhancing your coding experience with new formatting tools for JavaScript and Sass, as well as cleaner integration of {bslib} and custom Sass for ultimate flexibility when styling your ...

Ten years ago, Computational Actuarial Science with R was published. With Christophe Dutang, we created at the same time an R package, collecting datasets used in the book. It was mainly to give access to the datasets to reproduce the applications, since functions used in the different chapters were coming ...

Hey there! In our fast-paced business world, clear and consistent communication is more crucial than ever. We all know how misunderstandings and ambiguities can throw a wrench into our plans, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. That’s w...