Let’s create a minimal R GUI (R GUI 2, previously Q)
I realised that people that come from Stata struggle with R's current UI approach. [Read more...]
Unlearning the Tidyverse
Unlearning the Tidyverse R My motivation to unlearn the Tidyverse after eight years using it. Author Mauricio “Pachá” Vargas S. Published June 29, 2026 Why I have been working in a project with the University of Texas that showed some ABI issues (e.g.,... [Read more...]
R’ousseeuw²⁶ prize!
Great news that a major Statistics prize like the Rousseeuw Prize goes to the R Core Team, esp. Brian Ripley (University of Oxford), Martin Mächler (ETH Zürich), Kurt Hornik (WU Wien), Peter Dalgaard (Copenhagen Business School), and Luke Tierney (University of Iowa). R is indeed a unique phenomenon, ...
Machine learning meets reality: Forecast evaluation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
After all 72 matches of the group stage in the 2026 FIFA World Cup our probabilistic forecasts are evaluated, revealing what the machine learning algorithm predicted well and where it struggled.
A challenging new tournament form...
Long term economic growth rates by @ellis2013nz
I came across a chart of long term real gross domestic product per capita for Australia (1900 to about 2020) that had a couple of mistakes in its y axis scale and labelling. I wanted to see for myself what it should actually look like.
Looking for dat...
Running local LLMs on your NPU from R with Foundry Local and ellmer
TLDR: this post summarizes how I was able to leverage my Surface Pro 11’s Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to chat […]
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Fast conformal prediction (no refitting) for some Machine Learning models via closed-form jackknife plus
Fast conformal prediction for some Machine Learning models via closed-form jackknife plus (no refitting involved, just Linear Algebra).
stick function for the EDA in time series
You have probably seen my post about the STI classification of Hans Levenbach (this one). Well, I’ve decided to implement it, and it has landed in the greybox package for R/Python. What’s greybox? It is a package for statistical modelling focusing on forecasting and time series analysis. ... [Read more...]
AI in Production Conference Summary (2026)
“AI In Production 2026”, a new conference hosted
by Jumping Rivers, was held on 4-5 June, 2026. The conference touched on many of the intricacies of
using AI in software products, as part of the developer toolkit, and at the wider us...
SIM2 climate data
Temperature change in France – CC-BY by University of Reading
As France enters its second heatwave of 2026, can we produce more detailed plots than the excellent visualizations provided by ShowYourStripes?
MétéoFrance offers its monthly SI...
Winter R workshops at University of Queensland, Brisbane
My colleagues run some highly regarded R workshops for well over a decade in Brisbane (Australia) every year.
Details here and info below
Are you ready to take your R skills to the next level and conquer the challenges of messy data? Transform r... [Read more...]
Data for fitting models versus data for predicting from models
Answering a question that came up from a student recently.
Say you have 20 surveys of reef fish biomass at different locations. Then you also have gridded data with environmental covariates. The gridded data is for all reefs everywhere.
The goal... [Read more...]
Set Working Directory in R: setwd() & RStudio GUI Guide
Learn how to set your working directory in R using setwd() or the RStudio Session menu. Covers getwd(), Windows path errors, and the here() package for dissertation projects.
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Introduction to Bayesian Multiple Imputation with the rblimp package workshop
Join our workshop on Introduction to Bayesian Multiple Imputation with the rblimp package, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Introduction to Bayesian Multiple Imputation with the rblimp package Date: Thursday, July 23rd, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: Ermioni Athanasiadi ... [Read more...]
Flowcharts that belong in the analysis pipeline
Thanks to Alan Haynes and his excellent suggestions, I have spent some time improving the flowchart component of the Gmisc package. The result is not meant to be another decorative diagram tool. It is meant for the kind of figures … Continue reading →
EFA vs CFA: Key Differences Between Exploratory & Confirmatory Factor Analysis (R)
EFA explores unknown factor structures while CFA tests a predefined model. Compare both methods side by side with R code using psych and lavaan — know which to use in your dissertation.
EFAEFA explores unknown factor structures while CFA tests a predefined model. Compare both methods side by side with R ...
United Kingdom prime ministers by @ellis2013nz
With the recent resignation announcement from United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer, there have been a flurry of people talking about how many UK prime ministers there have been in the past decade, short terms for prime ministers, and so on. ...
Using scikit-learn models in R easily with the tisthemachinelearner package
Using the tisthemachinelearner R package to train scikit-learn models and compute prediction intervals
PCA in R: Principal Component Analysis Step-by-Step (prcomp + ggplot2)
How to Perform PCA in R: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Using prcomp()
To perform PCA in R, use the built-in prcomp() function: pca 1), or a cumulative variance threshold — this tutorial shows all three and where they disagree.
PCA is not the same as Factor Analysis. The comparison table below explains exactly ...
Celebrating Our Maintainers during Maintainers Month
May was Open Source Software Maintainer Month.
Behind every R package there is at least one person who responds to issues, reviews pull requests, keeps up with dependency changes, and makes sure everything still works.
During Maintainer Month we wante... [Read more...]
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