R-bloggers

Join our workshop on Agentic coding with R,  which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  Here’s some more info:  Title: Agentic coding with R  Date: Thursday, April 2nd, 14:00 – 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)  Speaker: Charles Crabtree is a political scientist and Senior Lecturer in the School ... [Read more...]

If you’re like me, you might be feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the new AI tools for coding. So, this post may be adding one more thing to your plate, but I promise to keep it as whelming as possible. 😄 This is a (very) short roundup of Skills ... [Read more...]

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Read it in: Español.Read it in: Português. rOpenSci Software Peer Review’s guidance is gathered in an online book that keeps improving! This blog post summarises what’s new in our Dev Guide 1.0.0, with all changes listed in the changelog. ... [Read more...]

Hierarchical Bayesian modeling (also called multilevel modeling) is one of the most reliable ways to build predictive and inferential models when your data has natural grouping—teams, players, seasons, leagues, referees, venues, or even game states. In sports analytics, that grouping is unavoidable. In R, hierarchical Bayesian models are commonly ... [Read more...]

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A while ago, I decided to learn some Rust. I bought a book, opened it months later and started a small side-project: porting my R package saperlipopette to the terminal by writing a CLI with Rust. I then lost steam and discarded the project. Now, teaching more Git with saperlipopette ... [Read more...]

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This note documents my ongoing Tutorials in Applied Statistics with R (and RStudio), which are aimed at first-year undergraduate social scientists. Three years ago, I published a Data Science with R course that has gone through a few iterations since ... [Read more...]

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The advent of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI tools has changed the nature of software development and of software review. These developments are complex, challenging, and controversial, but require action to maintain and grow rOpenSci&... [Read more...]

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ Strong Engagement in the Champions Program Call The Champions Progr... [Read more...]

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How to install nnetsauce with and without jax for GPU acceleration [Read more...]

As of this week, we are closing our forum at discuss.ropensci.org. The forum has become largely inactive in recent years, so we are consolidating our conversations to our other online spaces to reduce maintenance and moderation burden. We’re not... [Read more...]

Related (on this site): Install & Use worldfootballR worldfootballR Guide Sports Analytics with R NFL Analytics with R Tennis Analytics with R Boxing Analytics with R Bayesian Sports Analytics (Book/Product) Contents Setup Get match data Feature engineering Model 1: Poisson goals (baseline) Model 2: Dixon–Coles adjustment (improves low scores) From scorelines ... [Read more...]