R Shiny in Life Sciences – Top 7 Dashboard Examples
Today we bring you 7 dashboard examples of R Shiny in life sciences. R Shiny is one of the easiest ways for developers to make production-ready dashboards when speed and...continue reading.
Category: R News
Using R to detect the pressure wave from the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption in personal weather station data
It seems like an age ago, but in fact it was only mid-January 2022 when this happened: The answers are yes and yes again. One excellent source of weather station...continue reading.
How to Use Pandas Get Dummies in Python
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the Pandas get dummies function to create dummy variables in Python. I’ll explain what the function does, explain the syntax of...continue reading.
Kadane’s algorithm – finding maximum sum in contigous sub-array
The famous algorithm of contiguous subarray within a one-dimensional array of numbers that has the largest sum is called Kadane’s algorithm. It looks for global maximum of positive sum on...continue reading.
Using R/fitzRoy to ask: how many times a V/AFL team with the same lineup has played together?
If you sit in the intersection of “likes Australian Rules football / finds sport statistics interesting / is on Twitter”, you’ve probably come across Swamp. One of his recent tweets...continue reading.
readxl 1.4.0
We’re pleased to announce the release of readxl 1.4.0. The readxl package makes it easy to get tabular data out of Excel files and into R with code, not mouse...continue reading.
Shiny Wordle Word Journey
A couple of weeks ago, Winston Chang showed how to create a Wordle app in Shiny in a four-part video series. Go watch the video series to see how he...continue reading.
R Weekly 2022-W13
Hello and welcome to this new issue! How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly? This week’s release was curated by Ryo and Batool, with help from the R...continue reading.
February 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
February was a good month for new R packages on CRAN. Here are my “Top 40” selections from the two hundred packages that arrived in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, “Data”,...continue reading.
The Mondrianomies
The Moonies are up on their mountain, the lunatics have taken over the asylum, waiting on the rapture (The Daily Mail, Radiohead) I have not write any post lately, maybe...continue reading.
Announcing A Stroke of Innovation
It all started with a call booked on the RStudio website. My name is Óli Páll, and I am the Chief Data Officer at the City of Reykjavík in Iceland....continue reading.
Joe Cheng and Winston Chang at the Appsilon Shiny Conference
We’re thrilled to announce that Joe Cheng and Winston Chang will be joining the 2022 Appsilon Shiny Conference as panelists. Join the conversation with a live panel moderated by Eric...continue reading.
EU’s Natural Gas Imports from Russia. Numbers and Thoughts.
Putin’s brutal attack on Ukraine is horrifying in many dimensions. The western world reacted with economic sanctions on Russia, which seem to have strong effects mainly by limiting Russia’s imports...continue reading.
Updates for parsnip packages
We’re delighted to announce the release of parsnip 0.2.1. parsnip is a unified modeling interface for tidymodels. This release of parsnip precipitated releases of our parsnip extension packages: baguette, discrim,...continue reading.
Short course and keynote on statistical methods at Ghent Summer School on Methods in Language Sciences
I will be teaching an in-person course on linear mixed modeling at the summer school at Ghent (below) August 2022.The summer school home page: https://www.mils.ugent.be/1. 2.5 day course: Introduction to...continue reading.
Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, Sept. 12-16, 2022 (applications close April 1)
The Sixth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology will be held in Potsdam, Germany, September 12-16, 2022. Like the previous editions of the summer school, this edition...continue reading.
New paper in Computational Brain and Behavior: Sample size determination in Bayesian Linear Mixed Models
We’ve just had a paper accepted in Computational Brain and Behavior, an open access journal of the Society for Mathematical Psychology. Even though I am not a psychologist, I feel an...continue reading.
usemodels 0.2.0
We’re chuffed to announce the release of usemodels 0.2.0. The usemodels package enables users to generate tidymodels code for fitting and tuning models. Given a) a formula and b) a...continue reading.
How to Use R and Python Together? Try These 2 Packages
Data science is vastly different than programming. We use only four languages – R, Python, Julia, and SQL. Now, SQL is non-negotiable, as every data scientist must be proficient in...continue reading.
