R-bloggers

Introduction Linear regression is a fundamental statistical technique used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. While fitting a linear model is relatively straightforward in R, it’s also e...

Aconcagua - 6991 m If you like mountains, R and T-shirts, I got you covered. Here we use {elevatr} to get a DEM around some well known summits and make a map consisting only of isohypses. It produces (sometimes) very nice visualizations. And...

Election polls play a crucial role in predicting the outcome of elections and shaping public opinion. However, it’s important to understand that the results of any single poll should be taken with a grain of salt. Many polls only ask about 1,000 people about their political preferences, which is quite ...

Data acquisition Data loading Sampling Modelling Prediction Single process Multiple processes Post-processing [view raw Rmd] Summary: Prediction on large datasets can be time-consuming, but with enough computing...

nimbleHMC provides Hamiltonian Monte Carlo samplers for use with NIMBLE, in particular NUTS samplers. NIMBLE’s HMC samplers can be flexibly assigned to a subset of model parameters, allowing users to consider various sampling configurations. We’ve released version 0.2.0 of nimbleHMC, which includes a new default NUTS sampler inspired by ...

Last week, a stereotypical “French” ceremony opened the 10th Rugby World Cup in Stade de France, in the suburbs of Paris, France. As a small boy growing up in the southern half of France, I developed a strong interest for the sport. Now being an adult living and working in ...

Introduction Data visualization is a powerful tool in a data scientist’s toolkit. It not only helps us understand our data but also presents it in a way that is easy to comprehend. In this blog post, we will explore how to plot predicted values ...

Warning: I highly recommend you read this blog post first, which will explain how to run a pipeline inside Nix in detail. This blog post will assume that you’ve read that one, and it would also help if you’re familiar with Github Actions, if not, read this other ...

LatinR 2023 is being held October 18-23, 2023, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Presentations are held in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Register now!  LatinR was founded in 2017, Natalia da Silva, Riva... The post A Continental Movement: LatinR Event is Face-to-Face in Montevideo, Uruguay This Year appeared first on R Consortium.

Good news, everyone! I’ve recently released major versions of my packages smooth and greybox, v4.0.0 and v2.0.0 respectively, on CRAN. Has something big happened? Yes and no. Let me explain. Starting from these versions, the packages will be licensed under LGPLv2.1 instead of the very restrictive GPLv2. This does ...

Introduction Data visualization is a powerful tool for gaining insights from your data. Scatter plots, in particular, are excellent for visualizing relationships between two continuous variables. But what if you want to compare multiple groups w...

There is a lot to learn about Bayesian statistics, but it’s fun, exciting, and flexible! I thoroughly enjoyed the beginning of this journey. There will be learning curves, but there are so many great people and resources out there to help us get closer to understanding the Bayesian way. ...

Algorithmic Fairness Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023, 7:30 PT / 10:30 ET / 15:30 CET 2nd joint webinar of the IMS New Researchers Group, Young Data Science Researcher Seminar Zürich and the YoungStatS Project. When & Where: Tuesday, October 3rd, 20...

Introduction Histograms are a fundamental tool in data analysis and visualization, allowing us to explore the distribution of data quickly and effectively. While creating a histogram in R is straightforward, specifying breaks appropriately can m...

I’ve always believed that how I spend my spare time will have an impact on my future. Based on this philosophy, I started tracking my spare time, which includes any time outside of sleep hours and my 9-5 work schedule. I now have over 6 months’ wo...

As mentioned in the first post in this series, this post will cover how to build a Mastodon bot. This can be fairly straightforward, but - as always - there are multiple ways to “make it work”. Fortunately, there are already some fantastic tutorials out there that can help you ...