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The study of food webs is very relevant, considering the role these networks have in describing the transfer of energy and matter in the ecosystem (Thompson et al. 2012). As such, the evaluation of the robustness to species extinctions is an important step in any analysis evaluating food web stability. The ...

We are proud to announce the First Annual Appsilon Shiny Conference on 27-29 April 2022, hosted by Appsilon with support from RStudio PBC. Subscribe to updates about the CFP, guest speakers, and registration information here. The virtual conference will feature guest speakers from the R Community including Eric Nantz of the ...

The game Wordle has taken the world (or at least my facebook feed) by storm. It’s a really simple word game that’s a lot like the classic Mastermind. Here are the rules from the Wordle website: The logic behind the … Continue reading →

This post outlines the steps needed for building R 4.2 for Windows with OpenBLAS using the the new Rtools42 build system. With the soon-to-be released new UCRT toolchain for building R on Windows, the build process changes once again. First and foremost, we Windows users owe a deep debt of gratitude ...

Since this is a holiday weekend here in the US, I thought I would write up something relatively short and simple since I am supposed to be relaxing. A few weeks ago, someone presented me with some data that showed response rates to a survey that wa...

Overview Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) models are a prominent tool for performing flexible inference with a natural quantification of uncertainty. Traditionallly, flexible inference within a homogeneous sample is performed with exchangeable models ...

On Thursday, 3 February 2022 we are welcoming Christophe Regouby to RBelgium during an online meetup! https://www.meetup.com/RBelgium/events/282452150/ Christophe will present us: The tabnet R package, or how to outperform XGBoost and LightGBM on tabul...

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Introduction I found that I was constantly referring to the IPython documentation to look up the code for the autoreload magic command and wished there was an easy place for me to keep and access these sort of “oft-copied” texts. I realized...

16 January 2022 A couple of weeks ago I created my very first twitter bot which was immensely satisfying. It was also quite a frustrating process and this post should save you a lot of frustration :). You can view the code in the github repo. I can’t give enough … The post ...

How do consumers react to an increase in gasoline taxes? How much will they drive less? Will they buy more fuel efficient cars? Do tax increases have a stronger impact than gasoline price increases from other sources, like higher oil prices? In their ...

A Shiny application illustrating multivariate forecasting with ahead::ridge2f (in R) and ahead.Ridge2Regressor (in Python)

This is part 4 of a series on “Handling Categorical Data in R” where we are learning to read, store, summarize, reshape & visualize categorical data. Below are the links to the other articles of this series: Part 1 - Introduction to Factor Par...