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I recently noticed that ggplot2 spaces date axes literally even when grouped by month. I’ve been using ggplot2 extensively for years and I don’t remember noticing before, so this is not really a big deal, but now that I know it bugs me a lot. Take a...

A while back, I introduced the __ExcelRAddIn__ ([Office365 AddIns for R (Part I)](https://adam-gladstone.github.io/r-project/Office365AddIns-for-R-part-I/)). This is an Office365 AddIn that allows you to evaluate an R-script from within Excel and use the results. This blog-post describes some of the recent updates to the ExcelRAddIn.

Last year, the R Consortium had a conversation with Amal Tlili, the co-organizer of the Tunis R User Group, regarding the Use of R for Marketing and CRM in Tunisia.... The post Bridging Gaps: Tunis R User Group’s Journey in Democratizing R in Bioinformatics appeared first on R Consortium.

R 4.4.0 (“Puppy Cup”) was released on the 24th April 2024 and it is a beauty. In time-honoured tradition, here we summarise some of the changes that caught our eyes. R 4.4.0 introduces some cool features (one of which is experimental) and makes one of our favourite {rlang} operators available in base R. ...

Harnessing the power of big data is akin to mastering an incredible energy source. In the realm of data science, R serves as both a sanctuary and a training ground where data scientists, like the legendary fighters from “Dragon Ball,” elevate their abilities to new heights. With the right tools ...

Previously, I took advantage of a dataset that linked preprints to their published counterparts to look at the fraction of papers in a journal that are preprinted. This linkage can be used to answer other interesting questions. Such as: when do authors preprint their papers relative to submission? And does ...

#175–176PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #175Sometimes even common tables tell the story. Today we have table of people that are family, but we nee...

The {emayili} package has adapters which make it simple to send email via a variety of services. For example, it caters specifically for ZeptoMail, MailerSend, Mailfence and Sendinblue. The latest version of {emayili}, 0.8.0 published on 23 April 2024, adds an an adapter for Mailtrap.

Puzzles no. 434–438PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #434Sometimes challenges we are facing have not really much with real world problems. And no. 434 is one of them. Our task this time was to make ...

It’s a widely accepted notion that money influences happiness, a concept famously associated with Noble laureate Daniel Kahneman, who purportedly demonstrated that emotional wellbeing increases with income but plateaus beyond an annual threshold of about $75,000. This idea has permeated both academic circles and popular media, reinforcing the belief that ...

A lot has happening in Monster Maze for the last months and a new chapter has now opened. Wanna play? Play here Code The code is publicly available in Github: monster-maze-shiny-mob...

Flip a fair coin 100 times, resulting in a sequence of heads (H) and tails (T). For each HH in the sequence, Alice gets a point; for each HT, Bob does, so e.g. for the subsequence THHHT Alice gets 2 points and Bob gets 1 point. Who is most likely to win? ...

The key to successful backtesting is to ensure that you only use the data that were available at the time of the prediction. No “future” data can be included in the model training set, otherwise the model will suffer from look-ahead bias (having unrealistic access to future data).

The R Consortium recently spoke with Mario Annau, co-organizer of the Vienna R User Group. During the conversation, he discussed the use of R in the finance and pharmaceutical industries... The post Navigating R’s Impact in Vienna: Insights from the Finance and Pharmaceutical Sectors appeared first on R Consortium.