R-bloggers - Part 5

‘garchf’: GARCH probabilistic forecasting with package ‘forecast’-style interface (and ‘rugarch’ under the hood)

July 31, 2026 | T. Moudiki

The package garchf wraps the extensive GARCH modeling machinery in rugarch behind a forecast-style interface, so that GARCH-based forecasts can be produced, plotted, and evaluated with the same conventions used throughout the forecast ecosystem (in the...

Evaluating LLMs/AI for Media Planning in R

July 31, 2026 | Florian Teschner

LLMs can produce a convincing media recommendation in a few seconds. The more useful question is whether the recommendation is correct: are the reach calculations right, are the assumptions visible, and does the plan fit the brief? I work at Havas Med... [Read more...]

US oil stocks by @ellis2013nz

July 31, 2026 | free range statistics - R

Like many people I have been keeping track of the slow-burn fuel crisis arising from the war in Iran, its possible expansion to the Red Sea, and exacerbation from the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The latter seems to have reached a stage wher...

era 0.6.0: chronological comparison and difference

July 29, 2026 | Joe Roe

era v0.6.0 is now available on CRAN: install.packages("era") library(era) This minor release adds functions for chronological comparison of year vectors: x # BCE years &lt... [Read more...]

Spurious correlations 0.2 is on CRAN!

July 29, 2026 | https://pacha.dev/blog

This release adds feedback from students and instructors

ntroduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions workshop

July 29, 2026 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Introduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions ... [Read more...]

Using ghost text and next edit suggestions to learn agentic coding

July 27, 2026 | Seascapemodels

I’m a big fan of Github Copilots ghost text and next edit suggestions. As a data analyst they give you much more control over the pace and direction of analysis code than a full AI agent. They also let you practice the core skill an agent needs ...

June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

July 26, 2026 | Joseph Rickert

Four hundred twelve new packages were submitted to CRAN in June. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Bioarchaeology, Biology, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Machine ...

GPopt for R: Bayesian and conformal optimization of black-box functions and hyperparameter tuning

July 25, 2026 | T. Moudiki

GPopt for R: Bayesian and conformal optimization of black-box functions and hyperparameter tuning

Some useful equations for biological processes

July 23, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

Biological phenomena are often studied by examining how a numerical variable, usually called the response (e.g., the weight or height of an organism), is affected by another variable, usually called the predictor (e.g., time or fertiliser applic...

$Y = f(X, \theta)$

Babe Ruth: How good was he? Mantle versus Ruth

July 23, 2026 | Jerry Tuttle

As a kid, my baseball hero was Mickey Mantle. In his 18-year Major League career, he amassed tremendous statistics, and surely he was one of the game's all-time greats. When Mantle retired, he was third on...

New Frontier

July 23, 2026 | Stephen Royle

Remember the “AI rat penis” incident at Frontiers in Cell & Developmental Biology? Well, that was two and a half years ago. That’s enough water under the bridge to now check in and see how this incident affected the journal. If we look at how many papers published, we should ...

controller: tidy messy terminology in R with controlled vocabularies

July 22, 2026 | Joe Roe

controller is an R package for working with controlled vocabularies. It’s first release (v0.1.0) is now available now on CRAN. The package addresses something I find myself doing very often in analysis code: tidying messy and inconsistent terminologi... [Read more...]

muttest 0.3.0: Turn surviving mutants into a to-do list

July 22, 2026 | Jakub Sobolewski

HTML and JSON reporting, and smarter scoring for mutation testing in R.

Little useless-useful R functions – Jug solver with Bezout’s Identity

July 21, 2026 | tomaztsql

We all were presented with this problem – water jug problem, which – in the time of Football world cup 2026 – can be translated to any liquid. *hint hint* But the riddle is as logical as mathematical. With mathematics…Read more › [Read more...]

A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R: takeaways from the talk and workshop at UseR! 2026

July 20, 2026 | Jakub Nowosad

At useR! 2026 in Warsaw, I contributed to a workshop on Geocomputation with R (July 6, 2026) and gave a keynote entitled A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R (July 8, 2026). Both were opportunities to consider what the ...

Level With Me: Can the WGI Predict the WJP’s Rule of Law Scores?

July 20, 2026 | Giles Dickenson-Jones

TLDR: The first post established that the WGI and WJP rule of law measures agree on how they rank countries. […] The post Level With Me: Can the WGI Predict the WJP’s Rule of Law Scores? appeared first on Giles.

A collection of self-starters for nonlinear regression in R

July 20, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

Usually, the first step in every nonlinear regression analysis is to select the function that best describes the phenomenon under study. The next step is to fit this function to the observed data, possibly by using some sort of nonlinear least ...

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Outcomes from EuroBioC2026 Tidyomics Hackathon

July 19, 2026 | Juan Henao

Two days, four participants, four aims The first Tidyomics community hackathon took place on 1st and 2nd June in Turku, Finland, as part of the EuroBioC2026 conference pre-events. Here, four researchers from around the globe joined efforts to e...

Reading ‘Radical Uncertainty’

July 18, 2026 | datascienceconfidential - r

I recently read John Kay and Mervyn King’s book Radical Uncertainty as part of an economics book club and I thought I would share some thoughts on the book here. I’ve never read anything by John Kay before, but this is the second book by King which I ... [Read more...]

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