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Here’s the new data. Could you summarise it like Alice did last year, and send me a report? The civil service and public bodies in the UK publish lots of datasets. These datasets can be really helpful when experimenting with data visualis...

The revss Package for R Receives Major Update to Version 3.1.0 This is a big one! The revss package for R, which provides robust estimation for small samples, received a major, breaking update. The entire calculation engine was rewritten, new functionality added, and massive Monte Carlo analyses were run to calculate ...

In the previous post, I worked my way through some key elements of TMLE theory as I try to understand how it all works. At its essence, TMLE is focused on getting the efficient influence function (EIF) to behave properly. When that happens, the estimat...

17.03.2026 A new release of Bio7 is available.The application Bio7 is a free and open-source integrated development environment for ecological modeling, scientific image analysis and statistical analysis. Beside other programming tools it contains a feature complete development environment for R with an advanced R editor, R developer tools and interfaces ...

Like it or not, everyone is using large languageden models to help do their statistics. There’s a lot of claims made about whether LLMs can or can’t do useful ecological statistics. In our new paper “Prompting large language models for quality e...

I recently shared a blog post on Claude Skills for R Users, featuring excellent Skills developed by several community members. It brought me a lot of joy to share these impactful resources from the community. One question that I got repeatedly (...

Option pricing using time series models as market price of risk and bootstrap resampling

It is a rare thing that a date can be a palindrome. But it happens. And the idea is the following, to cover all different date formats and for the given period And to do some useless extraction of the…Read more ›

Exploring pip/tazo PTA for Pseudomonas using popPK simulation. Key finds: 30-min infusions fall short of 90% PTA at MIC 16; prolonged infusion helps, but neutropenic fever population sees the biggest drop in PTA. ~46% of susceptible PsA isolates carry blaOXA-2 — tazobactam matters more than I thought Motivations We’ve learnt a bit ...

Required Packages # install.packages(c("ragnar", "ellmer", "dplyr", "ggplot2", "tibble")) library(ragnar) library(ellmer) library(dplyr) library(ggplot2) library(tibble) Introduction This earlier post, explored building a text analytics pipe...

We recently ran a session on Posit platform updates, the kind of features that don’t always make it onto your radar but can make a real difference once you know they’re there. This post covers the three highlights: speeding up R packa...

For a while we, at Jumping Rivers, have offered a Dashboard Health Check (DHC) largely focused around backend features and other facets the end-user doesn’t see: things like version control, documentation and deployment. However, the DHC also included a few checks related to user experience and accessibility. While we’...

I’m happy to share a new release of deltatest. This release includes two main changes: a new tidy() method for deltatest objects a fix for p-value calculation in one-sided tests Before looking at what changed in this release, let’s briefly rev...

The MBBEFD Distribution After two years, the MBBEFDLite package for R is finally mature! As a brand-new actuary, in my first job, I had the privilege of working with Dr. Stefan Bernegger at Swiss Reinsurance. Albeit I did not have much to do with him—I was a one-exam, no ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Sharing data across shiny modules, an update Some people have recently been vocal about misuses of the “stratégie du petit r”, a mechanism for sharing data across {shiny} modules that was detailed both ...