admiral 1.4 release

January 14, 2026 | Jeff Dickinson

admiral 1.4 is here! There’s nothing like a new {admiral} release to start the new year with a bang, and that’s exactly what we have for you with {admiral} 1.4! This release comes packed with few choice updates and some exciting new features...
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GOLD/SILVER RATIO: GenAI with Quant Agents on Microsoft AI Foundry

January 13, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

1. Introduction: The Strategic Edge of Agentic Finance In the contemporary landscape of quantitative finance, the bottleneck is no longer data availability, but the speed of insight generation. Leveraging the Microsoft AI Foundry ecosystem, we have moved beyond static scripting into the realm of Autonomous Financial Agents. This article explores how ...
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Predicting Best Picture at the 2026 Academy Awards

January 12, 2026 | Mark White

I’m back with the Oscars Best Picture model, albeit a little late. I had a busy holiday season, but the story of December was surprising: The Secret Agent was the favorite, followed by One Battle After Another. This was largely due to The Secret Agent’s runtime, which is ...
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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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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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