R-bloggers

      The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a widely used measure of the prices of goods and services purchased by households. It’s the primary tool for tracking inflation and changes in the cost of living over time. The index is built from monthly price collections on a “basket” of goods ...

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/turn-new-data-into-quarto-reports-automaticallyThe {watcher} R package monitors your filesystem and run arbitrary code when files change. You can use this to automate things like creating pa...

This is a short post to announce the release of an R package, VolcanoPlotR. Background Using proteomics, we often want to compare two experimental groups. A popular way to visualise this comparison this is via a volcano plot, where the enrichment of proteins in one condition is towards the right ...

My last R posts: How conformalization helps weak models, fast conformal prediction with jackknife+ (and no refitting), and sklearn in R.

Instacart logo Ben Knight from Instacart has published a great write-up on how they use pyfixest “in production” for measuring the effects of marketplace experiments. For an open source developer, there is of course nothing more rewarding th...

Credibly Curious Nick Tierney's (mostly) rstats blog I recently gave a talk, The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher My main point in this is: Your course materials should be out th...

We are excited to introduce SummaryTables, a new module available in the jamovi library designed to provide an easy, flexible, and elegant way to create publication-ready analytical and summary tables. Powered by the gtsummary package in R, this module bridges the gap between running your analyses and publishing them. Instead ...

I recently gave a talk, The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher My main point in this is: Your course materials should be out there in public for free online. To help support this, this blog post goes through the technical det...

A very short post today. During the global fuel crisis relating to the conflict in Iran, I have been monitoring this chart, every Thursday morning my time: It shows the amount of crude oil in the Cushing facility in Oklahoma and is one of the most t...

This post examines whether the Worldwide Governance Indicators' (WGI) rule of law measure provides a reasonable proxy for the World Justice Project's (WJP) Rule of Law Index, such as when analysis might benefit from the WGI's availability for more countries over a longer period. Results suggest the two measures broadly ...

In financial markets, distinguishing between information-driven movements and liquidity-driven shocks is critical. The reference study we based our work on highlights the importance of tail analysis: comparing Gaussian (thin-tailed) and Student‑t (fat-tailed) distributions to understand whether price changes are more likely to reflect genuine information or temporary liquidity imbalances. ...

Title slide of the talk Keynote slides: https://jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026/ Workshop materials: https://jakubnowosad.com/ml4eo2026workshop/ Machine learning is now deeply embedded1 in Earth observation workflows, from mapping current enviro...

I recently had the opportunity to learn what the term “Nerd Sniping” meant. Maëlle pointed out a conversation on the rOpenSci Slack about something called Vale, meant for text linting. I’d seen the comment, but honestly hadn’t...

Three hundred twenty-three of the new packages were submitted to CRAN in May. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Education, Finance, Functional Data Analysis, Genomics, Machi...