R-bloggers - Part 33

Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in R

January 30, 2025 | kjytay

I recently learned from Allen Downey’s blog that Our World in Data is providing API access to their data. Our World in Data hosts datasets across several important topics, from population and demographic change, poverty and economic development, to human … Continue reading →

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From Code to Compliance: Validated Shiny Apps with Rhino

January 29, 2025 | Vedha Viyash

Developing GxP-validated applications that comply with strict regulatory requirements has been a significant challenge in the past, particularly due to the lack of tooling around good software development practices. This is no longer the case, over the years, many tools have been developed to help R programmers follow good software ...

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Share Your Shiny Expertise at ShinyConf 2025!

January 29, 2025 | Joanna Moćko-Łazarewicz

Hey Shiny Enthusiasts! ShinyConf 2025 is just around the corner, and we’re thrilled to invite you to be a part of it! Whether you’ve been working with Shiny for years or just dipped your toes into the world of interactive web apps, this is your chance to share your ...

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Anomaly Detection of the S&P 500

January 29, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

Since the date the Bank of Japan (BoJ) increased the interest rate, there seems to have yet been tested an anomaly for the S&P 500 despite the strategists saying it is overvalued. Source code: [Read more...]

registration open for BayesComp 2025

January 28, 2025 | xi'an

The registration for the incoming, exciting, Bayes Comp 2025 conference (and its satellites) is now open, including information regarding accommodations for the conference. Early bird rates run till 15 March. Furthermore, the call for contributed talk...

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Advent Calendar Ratings Dashboard

January 27, 2025 | Author: Kurtis Smith

Project Introduction For a bit of festive fun 🎄, I built a flexdashboard from Fortnum & Mason’s advert calendar ratings. Participants included: Sofia Costa, resident wordsmith Laura da Costa Williams, resident chef, with green fingers Skye da Costa Williams, resident witch, with crotchet hooks Me, resident R-nerd Fortnum & Mason was established ... [Read more...]

Thinking about covariates in an analysis of an RCT

January 27, 2025 | Keith Goldfeld

I was recently discussing the analytic plan for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a clinical collaborator when she asked whether it’s appropriate to adjust for pre-specified baseline covariates. This question is so interesting because it touc... [Read more...]

R for SEO Part 9: Web Scraping With R & Rvest

January 27, 2025 | Ben Johnston

R for SEO Part 9: Web Scraping With R & Rvest Hello, and welcome back. We’re (finally) in the home stretch of our R for SEO series with part nine, where we’re talking... This post was written by Ben Johnston on Ben Johnston

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Decomposing within and between person effects in longitudinal data with SEM in R workshop

January 27, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Decomposing within and between person effects in longitudinal data with SEM in R, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Decomposing within and between person effects in longitudinal data with SEM in R Date: Thursday, February 27th, 18:00 – 20:00 ... [Read more...]

rOpenSci News Digest, January 2025

January 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 rOpenSci 2024 Highlights and what comes next in 2025 In this blog p... [Read more...]

December 2024 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

January 26, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

In December, one hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Agriculture, Biology, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Healthcare, Health Technology Assessment, Ma...

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Gradient-Boosting and Boostrap aggregating anything (alert: high performance): Part5, easier install and Rust backend

January 26, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Gradient-Boosting and Boostrap aggregating anything (alert: high performance): Part5, easier install and Rust backend

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Cpp11 pull requests to improve the integration of R and C++

January 24, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

About From cpp11 description: “Provides a header only, C++11 interface to R’s C interface. Compared to other approaches ‘cpp11’ strives to be safe against long jumps from the C API as well as C++ exceptions, conform to normal R function semantic... [Read more...]

Cpp11 pull requests to improve the integration of R and C++

January 24, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

Gaussian Processes in R

January 24, 2025 | Chris Bowdon

I stumbled upon Gaussian Processes when looking into how the MIPRO prompt optimisation algorithm works and felt compelled to learn more about it. It’s a very nifty application of Bayesian modelling to analyse functions where data points are hard...

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Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors

January 23, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences with, and advice for, first time cont...

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A trip from variance-covariance to correlation and back

January 23, 2025 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

The variance-covariance and the correlation matrices are two entities that describe the association between the columns of a two-way data matrix. They are very much used, e.g., in agriculture, biology and ecology and they can be easily calculated wi...

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Dyson’s Algorithm: The General Case

January 23, 2025 | Nina Zumel

Photo by Marco Verch, CC-2.0. Source In a previous post, we looked at Dyson’s algorithm (Dyson 1946) for solving the Coins in Weighings problem : You have coins, to appearance exactly identical; but possibly one is counterfeit (we’l...

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Shiny in Production 2025

January 23, 2025 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

The fourth instalment of Shiny in Production is back this October, hosted at the Catalyst in Newcastle upon Tyne, with the super early bird deadline on the 31st of January! Set in the heart of Newcastle, this conference dives into the world of {s...

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Keys To Scalable Code: Owning The Interfaces You Use

January 22, 2025 | jakub::sobolewski

Learn how to build scalable and maintainable code by abstraction and information hiding, improving flexibility and ease of future changes. [Read more...]

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