R-bloggers

Two hundred forty-one of the new packages submitted to CRAN in January were still there in mid-February. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Data, Dynamical Systems, Ecology, Economics...

Hi pharmaverse community! Big news from the council: after our late‑2025 strategy session, we’ve formalized the pharmaverse pillars for 2026 — a friendly framework to give clearer direction, focus effort, and help members plug in where they c...

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on. You can find full details here.) I turned to my wife in the car the other day and said, out of nowhere: “You know, I love a bit of sax in ...

Did you ever wonder how fast and with accuracy your typing is? For this instance, we will introduce some random pangrams, code samples and random strings sotrted by level of difficulty. Addition to list of sample strings, we have also…Read more ›

We are delighted to announce that {pmrm} has joined the openpharma GitHub org and is now available on CRAN. This package implements frequentist progression models for repeated measures (PMRMs), a class of continuous-time nonlinear mixed-effects ...

Hi pharmaverse community, On behalf of the council we are pleased to announce that Nick Masel will be taking over from Sumesh Kalappurakal as the J&J representative on the Pharmaverse Council. Please join us in thanking Sumesh for his lead...

This post has been written in collaboration with Joshua Marie. Why this post matters Neural networks in R are no longer niche. Today, we can choose among: {nnet} for classic, small-scale neural nets, {neuralnet} another classic neural nets packag...

Jumping Rivers has been approved to sell our services through the Crown Commercial Service CCS. For UK public sector organisations, this is an important milestone. It means there is now a simpler, compliant way to work with us without going throu...

This post is the fourth of a series of (probably) seven on population issues in the Pacific, re-generating the charts I used in a keynote speech before the November 2025 meeting of the Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics in Wellington, New Zealand...

Recent advances in time series modeling have emphasized the importance of structural breaks—abrupt changes in the underlying dynamics of financial or economic data. The paper “Directional-Shift Dirichlet ARMA Models for Compositional Time Series with Structural Break Intervention” (Katz, 2026) introduces a Bayesian framework that captures these breaks using three interpretable ...

The Smallest Contribution You’re Probably Not Making You’ve used {admiral} to derive your ADSL. You’ve leaned on {metacore} to wrangle your metadata. You’ve validated your XPT files with {xportr} and scored your package risk with {riskmetric}...