R-bloggers - Part 43

Random Vector Functional Link (RVFL) artificial neural network with 2 regularization parameters successfully used for forecasting/synthetic simulation in professional settings: Extensions (including Bayesian)

June 30, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Random Vector Functional Link (RVFL) artificial neural network with 2 regularization parameters successfully used for forecasting/synthetic simulation in professional settings: Extensions (including Bayesian) [Read more...]

Building Trust with Code: Validating Shiny Apps in Regulated Environments

June 30, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

This blog post is a follow up to my 2025 R/Medicine talk on Validating Shiny Apps in Regulated Environments. Over the last years Shiny has become a cornerstone in data science applications, from dashboards and review tools to interactive decisi...

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Building Trust with Code: Validating Shiny Apps in Regulated Environments

June 30, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

This blog post is a follow up to my 2025 R/Medicine talk on Validating Shiny Apps in Regulated Environments. Over the last years Shiny has become a cornerstone in data science applications, from dashboards and review tools to interactive decisi...

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Forecasting the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 with enhanced statistical learning

June 30, 2025 | Achim Zeileis

Probabilistic forecasts for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 are obtained by using a machine learning ensemble that combines statistically-enhanced features and other information about the teams. The favorite is Spain, followed by Germany, France, ...

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Explore Neural Networks Interactively with Quarto Live!

June 30, 2025 | R'tichoke

What is Quarto Live? Quarto Live combines Quarto with WebR to enable interactive R code execution directly in the browser allowing for: Running R code directly in the web browser Instant feedback when modifying code examples No installation requirements Easy sharing of interactive documents The following code blocks are fully ... [Read more...]

How to Use R with Excel workshop

June 30, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on How to Use R with Excel, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: How to Use R with Excel Date: Thursday, July 31st, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: Alyssa Columbus is a third-year Biostatistics PhD candidate, ... [Read more...]

Predicting Gold Prices: Backtesting of ML Models

June 30, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

Fitch projects a decline of about 30% in gold in 2026. Easing the trade war and the Israel-Iran conflict may support this idea. We will project how the prices could go by the end of the year. We will use the modeltime.resample package for forecasting modeling. According to the Prophet model, ...

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Did my eyes just see Python in the pharmaverse?

June 29, 2025 | Ross Farrugia

Hi pharmaverse community! The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed in recent months updated wording on our pharmaverse charter and generally across our website to generalize our scope to “open-source software packages and codebases”. As par...

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SAEM PAKEJ, DIFFRINT VERSHUNZ: PAWSIBL?

June 29, 2025 | R on Biofunctor

Concerned cat It started as a simple exchange on Mastodon. Apparently, what is natural for my nix-infused brain may seem far-fetched for non-nixers. Multiple versions of the same package must be possible. But I actually tried this only once, so I de...

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Did my eyes just see Python in the pharmaverse?

June 29, 2025 | Ross Farrugia

Hi pharmaverse community! The eagle-eyed among you might have noticed in recent months updated wording on our pharmaverse charter and generally across our website to generalize our scope to “open-source software packages and codebases”. As par...

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May 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

June 29, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

One Hundred seventy-six new packages made it to CRAN in May. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Climate Science, Computational Methods, Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, ...

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ggplot dotplot using R | geom_dotplot, dot plot using ggplot2

June 29, 2025 | Unknown

Beyond just plotting points on a chart, how can you transform a simple ggplot dotplot into a powerful narrative tool that reveals the hidden stories within your data's distribution, all while avoiding the common pitfalls of visual clutter and misinterpretation? A ggplot dotplot is a powerful data visualisation tool within ...

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Counting Digits Quickly

June 28, 2025 | Jonathan Carroll

When things run slower than we’d like in R we tend to reach for another, usually compiled, language, and move our code there. What if it “just happened”? What started out as a silly exploration of how to count digits ended up with a race to see which l...

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rOpenSci News Digest, June 2025

June 26, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ Farewell to software review editor Julia Gustavsen This month we sa... [Read more...]

Prompting large language models for quality ecological statistics

June 26, 2025 | Bluecology blog

Prompting large language models for quality ecological statistics Announcing a new pre-print on prompt engineering for ecological statistics.. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CS80 The pre-print describes the challenges and opportunities of using large lan... [Read more...]

R Package Quality: Package Popularity

June 26, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

This is blog two of five: R Package Quality: Validation and beyond! Package Popularity (this one) In our previous post, we introduced the four components that make up a litmus package score: documentation, popularity, code quality, and maintena...

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R Package Quality: Package Popularity

June 26, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

This is blog two of five: R Package Quality: Validation and beyond! Package Popularity (this one) In our previous post, we introduced the four components that make up a litmus package score: documentation, popularity, code quality, and maintena...

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Prompting large language models for quality ecological statistics

June 26, 2025 | Seascapemodels

Announcing a new pre-print on prompt engineering for ecological statistics.. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CS80 The pre-print describes the challenges and opportunities of using large language models and agents to do ecological statistics. It then ... [Read more...]

Beyond the Basics: Books to Supercharge Your R Skills

June 26, 2025 | Boyd Tarlinton

There are a plethora of great books that are widely recommended for the beginner R user, but I many users often find their skills plateauing once they learn just enough to get by on a day-to-day basis. These are some of the books that helped me t... [Read more...]

admiral 1.3.0: documentation go!!

June 25, 2025 | Ben Straub

The second half of 2025 brings us once again to an exciting {admiral} release! Read through this blog post to learn more what is available in {admiral} 1.3. Headline update: documentation that gets you Our crowning update this release cy...

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