R-bloggers

One hundred seventy-four new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” selections in sixteen categories: Astronomy, Biology, Business, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Mathematics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Pharma, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, Visualization. Astronomy skylight v1.1: Provides a function to calculate sky illuminance values (in ...

My friend EJ Wagenmaker pointed me towards an entire book on the BF by Bozza (from Ca’Foscari, Venezia), Taroni and Biederman. It is providing a sort of blueprint for using Bayes factors in forensics for both investigative and evaluative purposes. With R code and free access. I am of ...

  Hi there! Early this year we published a research about getting animal abundance estimates from wildlife - vehicles collisions in Ecography journal:Can we model distribution of population abundance from wildlife–vehicles collision data...

Filtering Complex Data with gsignal IntroductionThe gsignal packageis a new signal processing library ported from Octave. If you use Matlab or Octave, gsignal contains many of the signal processing functions you would expect to find. In this p...

As a software engineer whenever I see something interesting in a web application I try to think about the way it was implemented. One of the things that caught my attention was the infinite scrolling functionality on sites like Facebook or Twitter. Whenever you scroll to the end of the ...

Recently I came across a situation where I had to use Microsoft Excel for a project. As somebody who has always used R for any statistical analysis, I may not have been entirely enthusiastic about...

Introduction After introducing the mapBliss package to the world, I was pleased to see that people started using it and were experimenting with making their own map art! On Github, the package got a few stars, some issues opened/closed and some im...

openEO From image collection to data cube Sample session Batch jobs Further reading Upcoming… [view raw Rmd] Summary: openEO is an open source, community-based API for cloud-based processing of Earth Observation data. Th...

I’m excited to be speaking & hosting a workshop (November 30) at this year’s R Gov Conference (@rstatsai) along with many others on December 1-2! Join us in-person or virtually online for a fun filled event! Get your ticket now at rstats.ai/gov #rstatsgov | #rstats

High level Python & R functions for interacting with Techtonique forecasting API

Vassilis Georgiou of the AthensR User Group talked to the R-Consortium about the group’s journey during the pandemic. Even though the group wasn’t hosting very regular online meetups, it remained... The post Going Global During the Pandemic appeared first on R Consortium.

openEO Sample session Batch jobs Further reading Upcoming… [view raw Rmd] Summary: openEO is an open source, community-based API for cloud-based processing of Earth Observation data. This blog introduces the R openeo client, and demonstra...