R Weekly 2023-W18 Code Review, JavaScript, Error handling
Hello and welcome to this new issue! How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly? This week’s release was curated by Colin Fay, with help from the R Weekly...continue reading.
Category: R News
operation impossible
A riddle from The Riddler on how many different numbers one could at most produce from six initial values and the four basic operations. In other words, how many values...continue reading.
Supreme Annotations Plot Redux & An OJS Plot↔ggplot2 Rosetta Stone
Back in 2016, I did a post on {ggplot2} text annotations because it was a tad more challenging to do some of the things in that post back in the...continue reading.
Q1 2023 tidymodels digest
5x height * [x] [`hugodown::use_tidy_thumbnails()`](https://rdrr.io/pkg/hugodown/man/use_tidy_post.html) * [x] Add intro sentence, e.g. the standard tagline for the package * [x] [`usethis::use_tidy_thanks()`](https://usethis.r-lib.org/reference/use_tidy_thanks.html) –> The tidymodels framework is a collection of R packages...continue reading.
March 2023: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
debkeepr v0.1.1: Provides tools to analyze historical, non-decimal currencies and value systems that use tripartite or tetrapartite systems such as pounds and shillings in the context of double-entry bookkeeping. See...continue reading.
Why AI Coding Systems Will Cause an Explosion of Data
For years, people have been talking about the era of “big data.” The data deluge. As early as 2010, The Economist wrote about how “quantity of information in the world...continue reading.
shiny.emptystate – How To Add an Empty State Component to R Shiny
What happens when there’s no data to show to the user? This can occur in Shiny apps, where users must upload their own data. Well, one solution is to show...continue reading.
shiny.emptystate – How To Add an Empty State Component to R Shiny
What happens when there’s no data to show to the user? This can occur in Shiny apps, where users must upload their own data. Well, one solution is to show...continue reading.
simulated annealing and logistic regression to the max
A Riddler puzzle on the three binary and sequential questions one should ask three players hiding their respective U(0,1) realisation, U, V, and W, to best guess which player holds...continue reading.
Rounding in R: Common Data Wrangling Frustrations and Workarounds in R, Julia, and Python
If you’ve played with data for long enough, you’re sure to run into some popular dead-ends. There are many of these, from misspelled location names and addresses to placeholder values...continue reading.
R Weekly 2023-W17 R 4.3.0, tidy tools, indentation
Hello and welcome to this new issue! How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly? This week’s release was curated by Eric Nantz, with help from the R Weekly...continue reading.
Differences between the base R and magrittr pipes
Note: The following has been adapted from a section of the forthcoming second edition of R for Data Science that had to be removed due to length limitations. Pipes R...continue reading.
Tuning hyperparameters with tidymodels is a delight
The tidymodels team recently released new versions of the tune, finetune, and workflowsets packages, and we’re super stoked about it! Each of these three packages facilitates tuning hyperparameters in tidymodels,...continue reading.
Influence of Alzheimer’s disease related neuropathology on local microenvironment gene expression in the human inferior temporal cortex
After 10+ years of research, my FIRST 1st-author paper & @biorxivpreprint is finally OUT🥹I delved deep into the human inferior temporal cortex🧠in #Alzheimersdisease, using #VisiumSPG #VectraPolaris #RNAscope & #HALO @Indica_Labs....continue reading.
Shiny User Adoption Fails: 9 Reasons Why Nobody Uses Your App
You had a great idea how to help your coworkers optimize their work. You’ve built an app and deployed it in a production server. Now you wait for some signs...continue reading.
Multistate Models for Medical Applications
Clinical research studies and healthcare economics studies are frequently concerned with assessing the prognosis for survival in circumstances where patients suffer from a disease that progresses from state to state....continue reading.
censored 0.2.0
We’re thrilled to announce the release of censored 0.2.0. censored is a parsnip extension package for survival models. You can install it from CRAN with: install.packages(“censored”) This blog post will...continue reading.
Writing performant code with tidy tools
The tidyverse packages provide safe, powerful, and expressive interfaces to solve data science problems. Behind the scenes of the tidyverse is a set of lower-level tools that its developers use...continue reading.
R Weekly 2023-W16 containers, extensions, revolutions
Hello and welcome to this new issue! How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly? This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team...continue reading.
luz 0.4.0
luz v0.4.0 is now on CRAN. This release adds support for training models on ARM Mac GPUs, reduces the overhead of using luz, and makes it easier to checkpoint and...continue reading.
