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Counting Digits Quickly

June 28, 2025 | Jonathan Carroll

When things run slower than we’d like in R we tend to reach for another, usually compiled, language, and move our code there. What if it “just happened”? What started out as a silly exploration of how to count digits ended up with a race to see which l...

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rOpenSci News Digest, June 2025

June 26, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

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 Farewell to software review editor Julia Gustavsen This month we sa... [Read more...]

Prompting large language models for quality ecological statistics

June 26, 2025 | Bluecology blog

Prompting large language models for quality ecological statistics Announcing a new pre-print on prompt engineering for ecological statistics.. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CS80 The pre-print describes the challenges and opportunities of using large lan... [Read more...]

R Package Quality: Package Popularity

June 26, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

This is blog two of five: R Package Quality: Validation and beyond! Package Popularity (this one) In our previous post, we introduced the four components that make up a litmus package score: documentation, popularity, code quality, and maintena...

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Beyond the Basics: Books to Supercharge Your R Skills

June 26, 2025 | Boyd Tarlinton

There are a plethora of great books that are widely recommended for the beginner R user, but I many users often find their skills plateauing once they learn just enough to get by on a day-to-day basis. These are some of the books that helped me t... [Read more...]

admiral 1.3.0: documentation go!!

June 25, 2025 | Ben Straub

The second half of 2025 brings us once again to an exciting ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} release! Read through this blog post to learn more what is available in ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} 1.3. Headline...

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Good vs. Bad Confounders: A Hands-On Introduction with DAGs & Simulations in R workshop

June 25, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Good vs. Bad Confounders: A Hands-On Introduction with DAGs & Simulations in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Good vs. Bad Confounders: A Hands-On Introduction with DAGs & Simulations in R Date: Thursday, July 17th, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, ... [Read more...]

How to draw a candlestick chart in R? – Both ggplot2 and plotly

June 25, 2025 | Ozancan Ozdemir

Candlestick charts are a type of financial chart used to depict the price movements of an asset over a specific period. Each “candlestick” represents a time frame—such as a day, hour, or minute—and displays four key pieces of data: the opening price, closing price, highest price, and lowest ...

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How to make a Financial Times Plot with ggplot2 in R?

June 25, 2025 | Ozancan Ozdemir

Hello folks!

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Why we are all naturally Bayesians not frequentists

June 24, 2025 | Bluecology blog

Why we are all naturally Bayesians not frequentists I don’t see why its a thing to say “I’m a Bayesian”. Being a Bayesian is normal for any rational person as we will prove in a couple of sentences. Being a frequentist is what is what is strange. It ... [Read more...]

A Simple Bayesian Multi-state Survival Model for a Clinical Trial

June 24, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

This post shows how to use the elementary theory of discrete time Markov Chains to construct a multi-state model of patients progressing through various health states in a randomized clinical trial comparing different treatments for asthma manag...

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Announcing New Stats Software Peer Review Editors: Emi Tanaka and Nima Hejazi

June 24, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

We are excited to welcome Emi Tanaka and Nima Hejazi to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Stats Software Peer Review. They join Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Jouni Helske, Toby Hocking, Rebecca Killick, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Noam Ro... [Read more...]

Setting Future Plans in R Functions — and Why You Probably Shouldn’t

June 24, 2025 | JottR on R

The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the futureverse ecosystem. TL;DR You can now use my_fcn

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How to open files, folders, websites in R

June 24, 2025 | Maëlle's R blog on Maëlle Salmon's personal website

Coming to you from France, a post about Mise en place for R projects. In a less francophone phrasing: to get to work on something you have to open that thing, be it a script or a project or a website. The easier that is, the faster you get to ... [Read more...]

Specialized R packages for spatial machine learning: An introduction to RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo

June 24, 2025 | Jakub Nowosad

This is the fifth part of a blog post series on spatial machine learning with R. You can find the list of other blog posts in this series in part one. This document provides an overview of three R packages, RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, a...

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Shiny in Production 2025: Lightning Talk Lineup

June 24, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

We are pleased to announce the lightning talks for this year’s Shiny in Production conference! We’ve already announced the full length talks (25 minutes each) in this blog. This blog however is all about this year’s lightning talks session (5 minutes per talk). Register now Lightning talks Andreas Wolfsbauer ...

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Sankey plots can work, but need polishing like any other graphic by @ellis2013nz

June 24, 2025 | free range statistics - R

So a critical discussion of Sankey plots floated across my feed on Bluesky recently, and one reply included an ugly example and the comment “Anybody who thought that this illustration enhanced clarity lives in an alternative reality”. The actual chart ...

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Chat with LLMs on your R environment

June 24, 2025 | Ozancan Ozdemir

LLM provides many advantages to the users, especially for coding. Once user had to switch the windows from the coding environment to the browser to search for the solution. But now, thanks to the newly advancements, users can chat with the LLM and get the solution for their queries on ...

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R’da ggplot2 paketi kullanarak Türkiye Haritası Çizdirmek

June 24, 2025 | Ozancan Ozdemir

2018 yılında hazırlamış olduğum R’da ggplot2 ve maps Kutuphanelerini Kullanarak Harita Cizdirmek adlı yazımda, R’da ggplot2 ve maps paketlerini kullanarak harita çizdirmeyi anlatmıştım. Yıllar içinde oldukça fazla bu yazıyla ilgili mailler aldım, ancak aldığım son mailler ...

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R version of ‘Backpropagating quasi-randomized neural networks’

June 23, 2025 | T. Moudiki

R version of 'Backpropagating quasi-randomized neural networks'

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