R-bloggers

Three hundred twenty-nine new packages were submitted to CRAN in July. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learni...

In 2019 I wrote a post with seven reasons policy professionals should learn to code. Now that AI can write reasonable code, I’ve had a number of people ask me if it’s still worth learning to program. Based on the evidence I’ve seen, AI appears to be a ...

I had a lot of fun this morning, brainstorming and assembling this _Analytics Pipeline_ for Dashboards with Claude (and yes it takes much, much more than only 10 prompts).

There are ten public training courses left in 2026, running through October and November. If you’ve been meaning to learn Python, build your first Shiny app, or get to grips with machine learning in R, there’s still time to do it befo...

Executive Summary MicroStrategy (MSTR) has fundamentally transitioned from a traditional enterprise software firm into an equity-based Bitcoin (BTC) holding vehicle and treasury operation. Evaluating MSTR using conventional corporate finance metrics (such as Price-to-Earnings or EBITDA multiples) fails to capture the core driver of its equity valuation: the dynamic Net Asset ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: We chose React to learn it. The AI wrote it for us. Diary of a rewrite, episode 1 of 4. In February 2026 we chose React to rebuild an internal tool, knowing full well it would take ...

How to join this free online event with Ana Carolina Moreno, Diana Garcia Cortes, Erick Navarro Delgado, Guadalupe Pascal, Valentina Clavijo Mesa, Monika Avila Marquez, Soledad Araya Orrego and Yanina Bellini Saibene. Más Allá del Código es un encuentro abierto para conocer los proyectos finales de nuestra cohorte: ...

Introduction Data Friedman test Aim and hypotheses Assumptions In R With base R With the {rstatix} package Interpretations Post-hoc tests Pairwise Wilcoxon signed-rank tests Nemenyi test Conover test Combination of statistical results and plo...

The last post identified potential transition pathways for truck drivers based on how closely other occupations matched them on skills, abilities and knowledge. This post follows the same basic approach across a wider range of occupations and asks whether two proxies could stand in for the ratings where no O*...

Chain-Ladder reserving in polars, validated against R and Whittaker-Henderson smoothing for a difficult development pattern.

This post is a follow-up to my previous posts on semi-parametric option pricing. A link to the study (accepted for presentation at the osQF 2026 conference) is provided at the end of this post.

Today’s just a very short sequel to last week’s post, where I had a look at some very skewed distributions to test the idea that sample sizes sometimes need to be in the tens of thousands for the sample mean to have a normal distribution. Turns out the...