R-bloggers

Directional markers in R/leaflet

January 7, 2026 | nsaunders

So you have used the excellent exiftool to extract all of the GPS-related information from a directory of photos in JPG format and write to a CSV file: You’ve used R/leaflet to plot coordinates (latitude and longitude) before, but what about that tag named GPSImgDirection? It would be ...

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Rugby Analytics with R: Complete Guide to Performance Analysis in Rugby Union and League

January 7, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Rugby is a sport defined by collisions, structure, and constant tactical adaptation. Unlike many other invasion sports, rugby alternates between highly structured moments—scrums, lineouts, restarts—and extended passages of chaotic open play. Each phase generates rich performance data: tackles, rucks, carries, kicks, meters gained, penalties conceded, turnovers, and spatial ... [Read more...]

R Studio or Positron? Time To Switch?

January 7, 2026 | Ozancan Ozdemir

I remember the day that I started to use R programming. I had a basic interface to write and execute the code. After that experience, R Studio emerged as a powerful IDE for R programming for me. It provided a user-friendly interface, integrated tools...

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rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review

January 6, 2026 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Read it in: Español. rOpenSci’s activities and spaces are supported by a Code of Conduct that applies to all people participating in the rOpenSci community, including rOpenSci staff and leadership. It applies to all modes of interaction including GitH... [Read more...]

penguins: Cloze Quiz for Exploratory Analysis of Penguins Data

January 6, 2026 | R/exams

Cloze exercise exploring sex differences in body mass for a randomly selected species of penguins, based on the eponymous data in base R. Name: penguins Type: cloze Related: lm2, boxhist2 Preview: The ... [Read more...]

LazyMouse – R package for randomly moving mouse cursor

January 6, 2026 | tomaztsql

New R Package called LazyMouse with single function for randomly moving mouse cursor in your favorite R IDE. For every R developer, R data scientists and all those everyday R users, that also need a break and do not want…Read more ›

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rOpenSci 2025 Code of Conduct Transparency Report

January 5, 2026 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Read it in: Español. Maintaining Community Trust and Safety The rOpenSci community is supported by our Code of Conduct with a clear description of unacceptable behaviors, instructions on how to make a report, and information on how reports are handle... [Read more...]

November 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

January 4, 2026 | Joseph Rickert

AI btw v1.1.0: Implements a toolkit for connecting R environments with Large Language Models (LLMs). Provides utilities for describing R objects, package documentation, and workspace state in plain text formats optimized for LLM consumption. ...

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Running Around: an R package to analyse Garmin running data

January 3, 2026 | Stephen Royle

In my previous post, I shared my annual running stats which were generated in R using summary data from Garmin Connect. The code I use to generate these summaries was beginning to get a bit unwieldy, so I have now rebased it into a package. GarminCSVr – is an R package ...

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Python examples for ‘Beyond Nelson-Siegel and splines: A model- agnostic Machine Learning framework for discount curve calibration, interpolation and extrapolation’

January 2, 2026 | T. Moudiki

Using yieldcurveml in Python examples for 'Beyond Nelson-Siegel and splines: A model- agnostic Machine Learning framework for discount curve calibration, interpolation and extrapolation'

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Testing the R-universe build workflow from your own GitHub repository

January 2, 2026 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

We refactored the R-universe CI workflows to make it possible to run the exact same workflow from your own GitHub repository. This allows you to test or debug the build and check process on your R package, exactly as it will happen on R-universe, but ... [Read more...]

As the red line clearly demonstrates, …

January 2, 2026 | Jerry Tuttle

I have been at lots of business meetings where the speaker would say something like, "As the red line clearly demonstrates, ..." I would quickly look up at two particular co-workers. ...

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Testing Super Learner’s Coverage – A Note To Myself

January 1, 2026 | r on Everyday Is A School Day

Testing Super Learner with TMLE showed some interesting patterns 🤔 XGBoost + random forest only hit ~54% coverage, but tuned xgboost + GLM reached ~90%. Seems like pairing flexible learners with stable (even misspecified) models helps? Need to explo...

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Running Around: 2025 running dataviz in R

January 1, 2026 | Stephen Royle

In this post I’ll use R to recap my running data from 2025. Previous round-ups are here (2021, 2022, 2023, not sure why I didn’t post one for 2024…). I had a goal of running a total distance of 3650 km in 2025. In truth, after running 3500 km in 2024, I decided to aim […]

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Forecasting benchmark: Dynrmf (a new serious competitor in town) vs Theta Method on M-Competitions and Tourism competitition

December 31, 2025 | T. Moudiki

A rigorous benchmark of Dynrmf vs Theta Method on M-Competitions and Tourism competitition

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New Caledonia’s nickel exports by @ellis2013nz

December 31, 2025 | free range statistics - R

Just a brief blog post that effectively is jotting down some thoughts and sources on New Caledonian nickel exports. This post was motivated by my (still incomplete) reading of this 2017 book on Large scale mines and local level politics—between New Ca...

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Most popular posts – 2025

December 31, 2025 | Eran Raviv

Today is the last day of 2025. Depending on where you’re reading this, the party might have already begun. I begin this end-of-year post by wishing you a safe and fun time tonight. This blog is just a personal hobby. When I’m extra busy as I was this year ...

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What would a keyboard optimised for Luxembourgish look like? Now with an actual keyboard!

December 30, 2025 | Bruno Rodrigues

An optimised layout for a polyglot country 5 years ago I discussed what features a keyboard optimised for Luxembourg should have. I’m talking about Luxembourg the country, and not Luxembourgish the language, because in Luxembourg no one types only Luxembourgish. The most commonly typed language is probably French, and English ...

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Toy Post: Per-Post Nix Dependencies

December 30, 2025 | Bruno Rodrigues

This is a toy post demonstrating per-post Nix dependencies. This post has a corresponding 2025-12-31-toy-post.nix file that adds the purrr package to the environment. library(purrr) # Use purrr to demonstrate it's available result [Read more...]

Multiplet Function Now Handles I > 1/2

December 30, 2025 | Bryan Hanson

I’ve been very busy with some other projects lately, but my obsession with NMR got the best of me when I saw this post by the Q Magnetics folks. So I decided to modify the multiplet function to handle nuclei with spin __ 1/2. Along the way I re... [Read more...]

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