data.table is a NumFOCUS project!

July 10, 2025 | Community Team

We are SO excited to announce some massive news for the data.table community: data.table is now a NumFOCUS Sponsored Project!!! For those who aren’t familiar, NumFOCUS is an incredible nonprofit organization that supports open source projects....
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Monads everywhR

July 9, 2025 | R on Biofunctor

A monad is a very useful pattern. If you don’t know what it is, then read my post from a few years ago, watch this excellent video, and you can also read J. Carroll’s insightful post. Once you think you get the concept, this blog post will ... [Read more...]

Perform a Likelihood Ratio Test in R

July 9, 2025 | Unknown

You've built two regression models—one simple and one more complex model. The complex one seems to have a slightly better fit, but is that improvement statistically meaningful, or just noise from the observed data? How do you prove, with statistical certainty, that the extra complexity is actually worth it? ... [Read more...]

Predicting the NASDAQ 100 with Hyperparameter Tuning

July 8, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

Pressure on the markets has intensified ahead of the Wednesday deadline for trade deals. We will model monthly Nasdaq 100 data with the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Unemployment Rate. We will use Boosted trees with hyperparameter tuning. According to the model, it would be better to wait until tariff ...
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ShinyProxy 3.2.0

July 8, 2025 | Open Analytics

We’re happy to share that ShinyProxy 3.2.0 is now available. This release focuses on a range of small but meaningful improvements aimed at making ShinyProxy easier to use. Debugging issues is now easier than ever, thanks to clearer error message...
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Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0: What’s Changing and How to Prepare

July 6, 2025 |

Introduction A major update to ggplot2 (version 4.0.0) is expected around mid-to-late July 2025. It brings a significant internal change, replacing most of the S3 backend with the newer S7 object system. While this improves long-term maintainability and extensibility, it may break Bioconductor packages that depend on ggplot2, especially those that customise ... [Read more...]
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