Creating a better universe with dverse

December 12, 2024 | Mauro Lepore

This article shows how to create a global search for any collection of R packages, i.e. a universe. Your universe may be on CRAN, large, and popular like the tidyverse or pharmaverse. But it may also be not on CRAN, small, company-specific or personal. The example here uses the ‘... [Read more...]

Diffify & Posit Package Manager

December 12, 2024 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

The latest release of Posit Package Manager introduces several enhancements, including: Python Git Builders: Build Python packages (wheels) directly from Git. Blocklists: Easily block specific packages or versions. Improved Documentation: Cleare...
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openwashdata hackathon

December 9, 2024 | Lars Schöbitz

📊 What would you create if given the challenge to turn raw data into compelling stories? Last week, openwashdata at Global Health Engineering hosted an exciting hackathon, challenging data enthusiasts to dive into one of our 30+ datasets and cra... [Read more...]

Analyzing Driver License Suspensions with R

December 9, 2024 | Brian Mikelbank

Summary: In this guest post, Brian A Mikelbank, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Cleveland State University, shares how he used R to explore the likely causes of license suspensions in Ohio, USA. Packages Required: Data: Background I’m a quantitative urban geographer, on the faculty at Cleveland State University, ...
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7 New Books added to Big Book of R [7/12/2024]

December 7, 2024 | Oscar

I’m very happy to introduce 7 additions to the Big Book of R collection which now stands at almost 450 free, open-source R programming books. A special thanks to Gary and Lucca Scrucca for their submissions. In case you missed it, the Big Book of R bot is live on … The ... [Read more...]

Advent of Code with data.table: Week One

December 6, 2024 | Kelly Bodwin

Happy December, R friends! One of my favorite traditions in the R community is the Advent of Code, a series of puzzles released at midnight EST from December 1st through 25th, to be solved through programming in the language of your choosing. I ...
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Bachet’s Four Weights Problem

December 5, 2024 | Nina Zumel

Here’s another puzzle from Henry Dudeney’s article “The World’s Best Puzzles,” The Strand Magazine, December 1908. According to Dudeney, this puzzle is originally from Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres (Pleasant and d...
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{SLmetrics}: Machine Learning performance evaluation on steroids

December 5, 2024 | Serkan Korkmaz

Introduction {SLmetrics} is a low-level R package designed for efficient performance evaluation in supervised AI/ML tasks. By leveraging {Rcpp} and {RcppEigen}, it ensures fast execution and memory efficiency, making it ideal for handling large-scale datasets. Built on the robust S3 class system, {SLmetrics} integrates seamlessly with stable R packages, ... [Read more...]
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