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Crafting compelling narratives often depends on presenting insights clearly and effectively. This skill is key for data science. For users of R’s {gt} package, it has provided a powerful and flexible way to create publication-quality tables in Quarto reports or Shiny apps such as clinical trial reports, research documents, ...

Introduction Data normalization is a crucial preprocessing step in data analysis and machine learning workflows. It helps in standardizing the scale of numeric features, ensuring fair treatment to all variables regardless of their magnitude. In ...

Introduction MLwiN from the Centre for Multilevel Modelling (CMM) at the University of Bristol (disclaimer: where I also work) is a fantastic piece of software (Charlton et al. 2024). The name suggests it only works on Windows, but as we’ll find out this is very much not the case. However, ...

 The adhan package is available here ! The prayer times cannot always be estimated accurately in some places such as countries located in higher latitudes (e.g. the Nordic countries) . as for instance during midsummer time the Fajr may b...

Puzzles no. 419–423PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #419What do you think hearing reversely divisible? My first thougth was… hey, palindromes are p...

In their “Object-Oriented Programming is Bad” video, Brian Will mentions a desired reserved word: use (timestamp) that could look something like this: The variables you specify come from the enclosing scope and would be available as copies within a separate … Continue reading →

Always ask for more than what’s initially offered. I recently read an X post from a CEO of a healthcare startup about how she considered giving a candidate 2.5X the offered comp just because he ASKED for it. How can an average job seeker accomplish the same feat? Now, ...

Hey guys, welcome back to my R-tips newsletter. Businesses are sitting on a mountain of unstructured data. The biggest culprit is PDF Documents. Today, I’m going to share how to PDF Scrape text and use OpenAI’s Large Language Models (LLMs) to summarize...

Introduction: how to open a second instance of RStudio Desktop on macOS On macOS when RStudio Desktop is open it can be inconvenient to open a second (or third or fourth) instance of it. If you left click the RStudio Desktop icon nothing happens. I...

In the vast and ever-expanding universe of data, the ability to not just see but truly understand the stories hidden within numbers becomes paramount. This journey of comprehension isn’t unlike the iconic moment from The Matrix, where Neo, standing amidst the endless possibilities of the digital realm, declares his ...

I am pleased to announce the release of gratia 0.9.0. This release has been over a year in the making and provides many new features as well as a more consistent user experience. Unfortunately, I have had to make a lot of breaking changes; nothing too egregious, but most user-facing functions ...

I’m very happy to announce the addition of 6 new books to the Big Book of R collection, which now stands at about 420 books in total! Thanks to Isabella Velásquez, Emil Hvitfeldt and Metehan GÜNGÖR for their submissions :). If you’d like to help out a little ...

Introduction Quantile normalization is a crucial technique in data preprocessing, especially in fields like genomics and bioinformatics. It ensures that the distributions of different samples are aligned, making them directly comparable. In this...

“In recent years, the Rejection Monte Carlo (RMC) algorithm has emerged sporadically in literature under alternative names such as screening sampling or reject-accept sampling algorithms” First, I was intrigued enough by a new arXival spotted in the Thalys train from Brussels to take a deeper look at it, but soon ...

In a recent interview by the R Consortium, Angie Reed, Water Resources Planner for the Penobscot Indian Nation, shared her experience learning and using R in river conservation and helping... The post Aligning Beliefs and Profession: Using R in Protecting the Penobscot Nation’s Traditional Lifeways appeared first on R ...