R-bloggers

NZ and US petrol (‘gasoline’) and diesel prices by @ellis2013nz

August 7, 2026 | free range statistics - R

This is another short, simple blog post building a chart I am going to be updating regularly as part of monitoring the impact of the slow-burn fuel crisis caused by the USA war with Iran. I have a page on this website with a few charts on the fuel cri...

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The GIS Research Assistant Job Has Transformed

August 6, 2026 | Seascapemodels

I realized this week that I won’t be hiring a GIS focused research assistant the same way as I used to. Claude Code is just too good at GIS in R now. I guess this happened around the release of Opus 4.7. I just hadn’t really pushed the coding ...

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Windows ARM64 comes to R-universe

August 5, 2026 | rOpenSci

Attentive package authors already noticed something new in their r-universe page over the past few weeks: R-universe has quietly started building and checking packages for Windows ARM64. https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/pdftools#checktable https://cra... [Read more...]

The Journey of {nycOpenData}: From Classroom to Community

August 5, 2026 | rOpenSci

FADE IN Nine students in the M.S. in Psychology Research program at Brooklyn College, New York City (NYC), USA are taking the course Reproducible Psychological Research, where they are learning how to code for the first time. All of them have their c... [Read more...]

Introducing the Bioconductor Student-ECR Council

August 5, 2026 | Carissa Chen

Announcing the Bioconductor Student-ECR Council From an idea that hatched during the EuroBioC2026 Birds of a Feather session, we are super excited to announce the formation of the Student-ECR Council! As a newly established Council, we aim...

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Is SAS Still Used, and Is It Worth Keeping?

August 5, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

SAS is almost 50 years old. It predates the web, and it predates most of the open source tools data teams reach for today. While old, it is not obsolete. SAS remains central to clinical research, banking, insurance and other regulated industries,...

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Cross-Validation From Scratch and a Surprise at n=100

August 4, 2026 | r on Everyday Is A School Day

Textbooks say LOOCV has the lowest bias but highest variance compared to 10 and 5-fold. Coded a K-Fold CV from scratch for learning to test that on simulated data 🔍📊 — and at n=1000 it holds up. At n=100? Not so much. 🤔 The above image was generated...

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R GUI Comparison Update

August 4, 2026 | Bob Muenchen

Graphical user interfaces for the R language are easy to use and getting more powerful all the time. Here is my updated comparison of jamovi, JASP, BlueSky Statistics (free & Pro), Rattle, RKWard, R-Instat, R AnalyticFlow, and R Commander. With so many detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R ...

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Centering a map projection on the mapped region

August 4, 2026 | A.M. Barbosa

The PROJ format for defining Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) is becoming deprecated, as PROJ strings cannot accurately store modern datum transformations, coordinate epoch information, or complex axis order rules. However, that format is much easier and more practical for humans … Continue reading →

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JAGS 5.0.0 is released

August 2, 2026 | Martyn

After an extended beta period, JAGS 5.0.0 is now available. The release is more of a process than a single event, but we have started by uploading the source tarball and the Windows installer to SourceForge. The macOS installer will … Continue reading →

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How Do I Build a Model? A Starting Guide for New Modellers

August 2, 2026 | Seascapemodels

I’ve put together a short guide: How Do I Build a Model? A starting guide for new modellers. It’s free, online, and aimed squarely at the graduate student who has a research question and is staring at a blank script wondering where to even begin...

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Analyzing Financial Trends: Kalman Filtering for Gold vs Bitcoin

August 2, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

In their paper “A Synchronized Multi‑IMU Wearable System for Tracking of Joint‑Angles in Sports Motion Analysis” (arXiv:2607.26027v1), Samarasekera and colleagues set out to solve a very practical problem: how to reliably measure joint angles in dynamic sports movements using wearable IMUs. Their goal was to design a ...

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The Future of Programming Looks Like Its Past or Why I build T

August 1, 2026 | Econometrics and Free Software

This is a post based on two other posts I wrote for LinkedIn. It has become quite long. AI Won’t Save People From Work They Never Thought to Automate I’m a fairly optimistic person, but when it comes to AI adoption and how it will be gene...

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Little useless-useful R functions – Honest geographical location signposts

August 1, 2026 | tomaztsql

We have all seen colourful signposts with great cities and their distances – how far each is from this current standpoint. And fundamental question is, how correct these distances are? Or even, one should ask, how honest a particular signpost…Read more ›

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‘garchf’: GARCH probabilistic forecasting with package ‘forecast’-style interface (and ‘rugarch’ under the hood)

July 31, 2026 | T. Moudiki

The package garchf wraps the extensive GARCH modeling machinery in rugarch behind a forecast-style interface, so that GARCH-based forecasts can be produced, plotted, and evaluated with the same conventions used throughout the forecast ecosystem (in the...

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Evaluating LLMs/AI for Media Planning in R

July 31, 2026 | Florian Teschner

LLMs can produce a convincing media recommendation in a few seconds. The more useful question is whether the recommendation is correct: are the reach calculations right, are the assumptions visible, and does the plan fit the brief? I work at Havas Med... [Read more...]

US oil stocks by @ellis2013nz

July 31, 2026 | free range statistics - R

Like many people I have been keeping track of the slow-burn fuel crisis arising from the war in Iran, its possible expansion to the Red Sea, and exacerbation from the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. The latter seems to have reached a stage wher...

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era 0.6.0: chronological comparison and difference

July 29, 2026 | Joe Roe

era v0.6.0 is now available on CRAN: install.packages("era") library(era) This minor release adds functions for chronological comparison of year vectors: x # BCE years &lt... [Read more...]

Spurious correlations 0.2 is on CRAN!

July 29, 2026 | https://pacha.dev/blog

This release adds feedback from students and instructors

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ntroduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions workshop

July 29, 2026 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Introduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions ... [Read more...]

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