R port of llama2.c
R port of llama2.c (based on tiny stories) [Read more...]
Halloween in the Round
Last year I wrote about cleaning some data from the NHTSA FARS database, the system that tracks information about road accidents in the United States. I did that again this year for my Modern Plain Text Computing class. I won’t repeat the cleanin... [Read more...]
[R] Setting Up an Interactive R Shiny Plotting App
Zhenguo Zhang's Blog /2025/10/08/r-setting-up-an-interactive-r-shiny-plotting-app/ -I have an ieda of creating a shiny app to create all kinds of plots interactively,
so that users can choose their color, symbols, etc, which is very useful for data exploration and make a publication-quality figure.
Today, I make it and published it at https://... [Read more...]
foreach: Making All %dopar% Behave Like %dofuture% Everywhere
The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19,
2025. I got a bit stalled over the holidays and going to the fantastic
useR! 2025 conference, but, as promised, here is the third in a series
of blog posts highlighting recent improveme...
Native uncertainty quantification for time series with NGBoost
Using NGBoost for probabilistic forecasting in time series analysis with nnetsauce and cybooster libraries.
Deploy Multiple Shiny Apps from One R Package
Code organization and deployment strategy for multiple Shiny apps sharing common logic within a single R package. Structuring your project in a monorepo format. [Read more...]
A new simstudy function to make simulating replications easier
Four years ago, I described a simple framework for organizing simulations to conduct power analyses or explore the operating characteristics of modeling approaches. In that framework, I introduced a small function scenario_list that generated a list...
Text Analytics in R with quanteda (Part 1)
Required Packages
library(quanteda)
library(quanteda.textstats)
library(quanteda.textplots)
library(readr)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(stringr)
library(DT)
library(tidytext)
Understanding Text Analytics Fundamentals
Text analytic...
Resource for using Large Language Model tools in R
Resource for using Large Language Model tools in R
If you’re interested in using Large Language Models (LLMs) with R, you should check out Luis D. Verde Arregoitia’s new online resource: Large Language Model tools for R. Its available in English and S... [Read more...]
New online book AI Assistants for Scientific Coding
New online book AI Assistants for Scientific Coding
I’ve released a new online book, AI Assistants for Scientific Coding. It’s a practical guide to using language models to support scientific computing and analysis.
The book focuses on helping people... [Read more...]
Mapping locations related to the Amelia Earhart disappearance by @ellis2013nz
The 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan was briefly in the news in the last week or so. A campaign, apparently based in the Northern Marianas, to release any papers held by the US government found a willing ear in the current US admini...
Automating the Github Copilot Agent from the command line with Copilot CLI
Automating the Github Copilot Agent from the command line with Copilot CLI
Github Copilot CLI (Command Line Interface) recently became available. It is an AI agent, meaning it can use tools autonomously in a loop. It has two modes:
An interac... [Read more...]
Iterating some sample data
I’m teaching my Modern Plain Text Computing course this semester and so I’m on the lookout for small examples that I can use to show some of the small techniques we regularly use when working with tables of data. One of those is just coming up with some ... [Read more...]
Double y-axis plots with ggplot2 and purrr
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You can send me questions for...
Repost: Construct objects with idiomatic R code
Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/construct-objects-with-idiomatic-r-code---Today I discovered the constructive package and the construct()
function for creating R objects with idiomatic R code to make
human-readable repro... [Read more...]
Still here. Still writing occasional posts for a tiny audience.
It’s been a while because, reasons. I’m still alive, still enjoying recreational R programming and still writing the occasional post that almost no one reads these days. Like this one. Sam Lord writes on the site formerly known as Twitter: I bet that we can answer that using ...
Adding random transport links to a 2D growth model
This post is about economic growth in a region in which labour is free to move around.
A colleague recently showed me a paper by Capasso, Engbers and La Torre which describes an extension of the Solow growth model in which a spatial element is added. It seemed to me ...
Simulating Monty Hall’s Problem
I find that when teaching statistics (and probability) it is often helpful to simulate data first in order to get an understanding of the problem. The Monty Hall problem recently came up in a class so I implemented a function to play the game.
Th... [Read more...]
Real-time pricing with a pretrained probabilistic stock return model
Real-time pricing with a pretrained probabilistic stock return model, using Python FastAPI and R Plumber
Preparing Rfuzzycoco for publication on CRAN
I recently released on github a R package Rfuzzycoco that provides the Fuzzy Coco algorithm by wrapping my fuzzycoco C++ implementation and extending it. It provides easy installation and access to this software.
The Comprehensive R Archive Netw...
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