R-bloggers

useR! 2026: Futurize – Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers

August 20, 2026 | JottR on R

Below are the slides for my Futurize - Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers talk that I presented at the useR! 2026 conference in Warzaw, Poland. Title: Futurize - Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpil...

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How to Get Sports Betting Data in R: Free APIs, Historical Odds and Daily Updates

August 19, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Building a sports betting model in R does not begin with machine learning or a complicated statistical formula. It begins with reliable data. You need historical results, team or player statistics, bookmaker odds and a process for updating everything without manually downloading a new spreadsheet every day. Fortunately, R provides ... [Read more...]

McNemar’s test in R

August 18, 2026 | R on Stats and R

Introduction In a previous article, we showed how to perform the Chi-square test of independence in R in order to test whether two qualitative variables are related. As mentioned in that article (and in the one showing how to do the Chi-square tes...

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A Summer, Explained with R

August 18, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

It’s 2:47pm, the meeting has been running for 38 minutes, and someone has just said, “Can everyone see my screen?” You’re trying to concentrate, your laptop fan sounds like it’s preparing for take-off, and somewhere outside the temperature has climbed to 34°C. You’ve already relocated once today ...

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Take Your R Projects on the Road: Using R on Your Raspberry Pi, Android Device, and iPhone

August 18, 2026 | dmwiig

This post explores using R and RStudio with Raspberry Pi, Android OS and iPhone. A simple R programming example is provided. [Read more...]

Breaking the Python Barrier: Building a Pure R-Native DeepAR Engine with LibTorch

August 18, 2026 | Selcuk Disci

Deep learning for time series forecasting in R has historically faced a major architectural hurdle: Python overhead. Frameworks like modeltime.gluonts provide interface wrappers around AWS GluonTS, but they rely on a complex execution chain passing through reticulate, virtual environments, Python serialization, and MXNet/PyTorch backends. To overcome the performance ...

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PyData Berlin Talk on our new within Fixed Effect Solver

August 17, 2026 | Alex Fischer

Yesterday I was in Berlin for the day and presented at the local PyData Meetup on our new solver for fixed effects regression. It was of course a lot of fun! The development was prompted by an issue we received via github a couple of months ago: ...

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PyData Berlin Talk on our new within Fixed Effect Solver

August 17, 2026 | Alex Fischer

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Notes on purposeful skill maintenance/improvement/neglect

August 16, 2026 | Alexej Gossmann

Over the course of my life I’ve invested a lot of time and effort into the acquisition of different skills, abilities, competencies, specialized knowledge – for simplicity I will refer to all of it as “skills” in the following. Some of those skills, I would say, have even become an ... [Read more...]

Creating self-contained R scripts for rendering Quarto documents using the knitr engine – courtesy of the new R package managers ir and uvr

August 15, 2026 | R | Dr Tom Palmer

Introduction In previous posts I have described how to use the self-contained Python scripts feature in the uv Python package manager to create virtual environments to render Quarto documents using the Jupyter nbstata kernel and the python3 kernel. I... [Read more...]

More progress with Tabler for R

August 15, 2026 | https://pacha.dev/blog

For R users that are just starting with R or that have been using it for years

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Token Maxxing

August 15, 2026 | Alex Fischer

Claude Codex Usually I don’t watch much youtube (a social phenomenon I have somewhat missed out on), but here’s an interesting video about another social phenomenon I have somewhat experienced myself . With LLM coding, I feel li...

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A Tiny Iroshizuku Ink Shop in R

August 15, 2026 | Chi

色彩雫 I just discovered that the R script I had written while back, which was a hand-curated colour palette of Pilot Iroshizuku fountain pen inks. Pilot describes Iroshizuku as a combination of iro = colour, and shizuku = droplet. The individual ...

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[R] Environment Variables in R Shiny-Server Container: Problem and Solutions

August 14, 2026 | R on Zhenguo Zhang's Blog

Zhenguo Zhang's Blog https://fortune9.netlify.app/2026/08/15/r-environment-variables-in-r-shiny-server-container/ -When dockerizing an R Shiny application hosted via Shiny Server (built from shiny server docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/shiny), a common issue developers face is that environment variables set via ENV instructions in the Dockerfile (or passed at ... [Read more...]

‘Zero-Shot Probabilistic Stock Returns Forecasting with Pretrained RVFL Networks’ accepted at COPA 2026 (and to appear in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research)

August 14, 2026 | T. Moudiki

Link to the paper and the code repository.

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Round-robin (with Claude)

August 14, 2026 | xi'an

A few days ago I had a coffee in Paris with my long-time friend (and former Statistics & Computing editor) Gilles Celeux, and he mentioned me stopping solving and posting maths puzzles like those weekly published by Le Monde. They have indeed vanished with the retirement of the authors, but Gilles ...

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Reading notes on Code That Fits in Your Head by Mark Seemann

August 13, 2026 | Maëlle's R blog on Maëlle Salmon's personal website

Last month, Vicki Boykis recommended the book “Code that Fits in Your Head” by Mark Seemann. I was intrigued, especially by her takeaway that “Writing good software should be a slow and deliberate craft”. The book reminded of Th... [Read more...]

Posit Assistant: Is it worth the switch?

August 13, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

What Is Posit Assistant? Posit Assistant is an AI assistant built into your IDE, either Positron or RStudio. It’s built primarily for exploratory data analysis, and its pitch is session context and specialised, in-built skills. If you follow Posit’s developments, you might have heard of their previous iterations ...

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Some everyday data tasks: a few hints with R

August 13, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

It is important to know how to reshape a dataframe into a form that might be more suitable for the analyses we intend to perform. For me, it is also important to know how to do this with base R, without using any other packages. Yes, I know that...

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Ihaka Lecture

August 13, 2026 | R on kieranhealy.org

I gave the first of this year’s Ihaka Lectures at the University of Auckland this past July. It revisited and partially updated things I’ve been talking about for the past eighteen months or so on trust in data visualization (and b... [Read more...]

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