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tl;dr Once the login package is installed, you can run two demos using the following commands: shiny::runApp(paste0(find.package('login'), '/user_params/')) https://github.com/jbryer/login/blob/main/inst/user_params/app.R shiny::runApp(paste0(fi...

This is the second part of a blog post series on spatial machine learning with R. You can find the list of other blog posts in this series in part one. Introduction This document shows the application of caret for spatial modelling at t...

If you want to watch a 2-Minute video introduction to {rixpress}, click the image below: In August last year I tried to see how one could use Nix as a built automation tool for data science pipelines, and in March this year, I’ve star...

Zhenguo Zhang's Blog /2025/05/10/r-use-new-scale-xxx-function-to-add-the-same-scale-type-in-different-ggplot-layers/ - In one ggplot figure, normally you can only use one scale for each aesthetic mapping. For example, if you use scale_color_manual() ...

A new, universal development environment VS Code is Microsoft’s open-source software development environment that can be customized for any language. It is arguably the general-purpose GUI programming tool of choice when working across multiple...

Standalone knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors, along with the Quarto source files to generate this. Knowledge quiz Standalone file: flags.html Resources flags flags.qmd: Quarto sou...

 Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/uv-part-3-python-in-r-with-reticulate.Two demos using Python in R via reticulate+uv: (1) Hugging Face transformers for sentiment analysis, (2) pyBigWig to query a BigWig file and ...

Understanding how scientific knowledge develops requires more than merely counting papers and citations. It requires a careful evaluation of how research topics and themes interconnect and transform over time. This is where bibliometric analysis becomes essential. As the volume of scientific journals and papers continues to grow exponentially, bibliometric analyses ...

Note that this is cross posted with a vignette in the medley R package. For the most up-to-date version go here: https://jbryer.github.io/medley/articles/downsampling.html Comments can be directed to me on Mastodon at @vis.social@jbryer. To insta...

The distances of Hasler kayak races for various divisions are nominally 4, 8 and 12 miles. However, the actual distances vary to some degree from one race venue to another. This makes it difficult to compare race times across different races. Using data from Paddle UK I attempt to estimate the actual distances.

New CRAN releases of the R/exams package and the accompanying exams2forms package with many new features and enhancements, especially for the written multiple-choice exams (NOPS). Overview The new version 2.4-2 of the...