R-bloggers - Part 4

Spurious Correlations in R – Correlation is not Causation

September 26, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

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Learning And Exploring The Workflow of RNA-Seq Analysis – A Note To Myself

September 26, 2025 | r on Everyday Is A School Day

Learned RNA-seq workflow using C. difficile data from a published study 🧬. Processed raw reads through fastp → kallisto → DESeq2 pipeline. Results matched the original paper’s findings, with clear differential expression between mucus and contro...

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Piwik Pro doesn’t offer a free plan anymore

September 26, 2025 | rstats-tips.net

Unformatunately Piwik Pro has discontinued their free plan as of the end of 2025. If I wanted to user Piwik Pro I would have to pay at least 420,00 € per year. As the author of the CRAN-hosted R-package piwikproR I have to decide whether I should conti... [Read more...]

Creating a simple R package with C++ code to sum “a + b” using different data types

September 25, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

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Global Modeling with XGBoost: Gold vs. Silver

September 24, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

China aims to increase its influence in the global bullion market by directing friendly countries to store their gold reserves within its borders. This move is part of Beijing’s efforts to reduce its reliance on the dollar and promote the global use of the yuan. Goldman Sachs predicts that ...

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Creating a simple R package with C++ code to sum “a + b” using different data types

September 23, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

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Bayesian Optimization for Sequential Decisions with Multi-Arm Bandits

September 23, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop titled Bayesian Optimization for Sequential Decisions with Multi-Arm Bandits, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Bayesian Optimization for Sequential Decisions with Multi-Arm Bandits Date: Thursday, October 23rd, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: Jordan Nafa is a ... [Read more...]

Ten year anniversary of Free Range Statistics by @ellis2013nz

September 23, 2025 | free range statistics - R

Ten years of blog posts A few months ago—26 July 2025 to be precise—was the tenth anniversary of my first blog post. Over that time it turns out I’ve written about 225 blog posts, and an astonishing (to me) 350,000 words. That’s after you take out the...

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A Personal Message from an Open Source Contributor

September 22, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

You can send me questions for the blog using this form and subscribe to receive an email when there is a new post. Dear fellow developers and data scientists, If everyone reading this gave just the price of a coffee, I could focus fully on open s... [Read more...]

Creating a simple R package with C++ code to sum “a + b”

September 22, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

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A Gentle Introduction to Open Science

September 22, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

Read it in: Français. Sunny and Steffi showing off their R hex stickers! This summer I had a wonderful time attending the Society for Canadian Ornithologists meeting in Saskatoon, Canada. It was super exciting to run into Sunny Tseng, rOpenSci Cham... [Read more...]

Combining any model with GARCH(1,1) for probabilistic stock forecasting

September 22, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Combining any model with GARCH(1,1) for probabilistic stock forecasting

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Clean R Tests with `local_mocked_bindings` and Dependency Wrapping

September 22, 2025 | jakub::sobolewski

Learn how to write reliable R tests by wrapping external dependencies and using `testthat::local_mocked_bindings`. Make your tests fast, clean, and predictable. [Read more...]

A Personal Message from an Open Source Contributor

September 21, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

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Open Trade Statistics v6.0 is publicly available!

September 21, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

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A Note on the Dirichlet Distribution

September 21, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

In 1839, the gifted mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was attached to the Philosophy department at the University of Berlin working for less than full pay even though he had become a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1832....

$\quad I := \iiint_{S_s} \frac{dx\, dy\, dz}{\rho^p}$

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T test in R

September 20, 2025 | Ponne, Bruno

In this post, you will learn what a T Test is and how to perform it in R. First, you’ll see a simple function that lets you perform the test with just one line of code. Then, we will explore the intuition behind the test, building it step by ...

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Generating Synthetic Data with R-vine Copulas using esgtoolkit in R

September 20, 2025 | T. Moudiki

Generating synthetic data using R-vine copulas with the esgtoolkit package in R

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Key improvements in shapviz and kernelshap

September 20, 2025 | Michael Mayer

Recent updates to the two SHAP packages

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My first GitHub Actions extension: A tool to apply Clang format to C++ code

September 18, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

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