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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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LLMs can’t be trusted to do scientific coding accurately, but humans make mistakes too

January 13, 2026 | Seascapemodels

I often hear the comment that LLMs/generative AI (large language models) can’t be trusted for research tasks. Image Google’s Nano Banana tasked with “Generate an image of a male African researcher holding a balloon that is pulling them up above...

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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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From scripts to pipelines in the age of LLMs

January 12, 2026 | Econometrics and Free Software

I was recently reading Davis Vaughan’s blog post Semi-automating 200 Pull Requests with Claude Code and it really resonated with me, as I’ve been using LLMs for tedious tasks like that for some time now. Davis’s key insight: structure = su...

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Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026!

January 11, 2026 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Read it in: Español. We are pleased to announce the opening of a new call for applications for the rOpenSci Champions Program in Spanish, which will begin in 2026. We will be accepting applications beginning in January 12, 2026 and until February 20, ... [Read more...]

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Setting up a Knowledge Store in R

January 8, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

Happy New Year from the team at Jumping Rivers! As we move through the midpoint of the 2020s, it’s a good time to reflect on the changes that we have seen so far in this decade. In the world of data science nothing has dominated headlines quite l...

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Survivor 49 is now in 📦{survivoR}

January 8, 2026 | Daniel Oehm

Survivor 49 has wrapped up and has been added to the {survivoR} package. It is available on If you find […] The post Survivor 49 is now in 📦{survivoR} appeared first on Dan Oehm | Gradient Descending. [Read more...]

rtopy: an R to Python bridge — novelties

January 7, 2026 | T. Moudiki

rtopy: an R to Python bridge -- novelties

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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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So how much does OpenAI owe us?

January 6, 2026 | datascienceconfidential - r

Introduction: Copyright Law and Whatnot I recently watched a clip from a debate between Timothy Nguyen of Google Deepmind and Danish author Janne Teller. The debate, entitled Technology and Freedom, took place at Hay-on-Wye in summer 2025. On the subj...

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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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