I’m pleased to anounce an update of my sjPlot-package, a package for Data Visualization for Statistics in Social Science. Thanks to the help of Alexander, it is now possible to create grouped Likert-plots. This is what I want to show in this post… First, we load the required packages ...

In the post https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/more-general-weighted-binning, I’ve shown how to do the weighted binning with the function wqtl_bin() by the iterative partitioning. However, the outcome from wqtl_bin() sometimes can be too coarse. The function wgbm_bin() (https://github.com/statcompute/MonotonicBinning/blob/master/code/wgbm_...

(TL;DR: Vectors are ordered lists of numbers.)

When a code base grows we may think of using several files first and then source them. Functions, of course, are rightfully advocated to new R users, and are the essential building block. Packages are then, already, the next level of abstraction we have to offer. With the modules package ...

We are pleased to announce that our package {attachment} is now available on CRAN. The goal of attachment is to help to deal with package dependencies during package development. It also gives useful tools to install or list missing packages used inside Rscripts or Rmds. Deal with dependencies during package ...

Cherry Blossoms at the Japanese American Historical Plaza in Portland, OR (Tim Black: April 2019)Medium is a great platform to get your blog started. It is incredibly easy to use, has a visually appealing layout, and can help expand the reach to your ...

Phillip (Armand) Bester is a medical scientist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Bloemfontein, South Africa Dominique Goedhals is a pathologist, researcher, and lecturer at the Division of Virology, University of the Free State, and National Health ...

What’s the best way to learn R? Motivations behind the debate Some argue that R fundamentally has a steep learning curve, and that there are no real shortcuts for learning R. I don’t completely agree with that: I think that there are easier way...

Check out this repo from Rweekly.org on Github: https://github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org This is a great place to start with some coding fun and contribute to the community. Also hold you accountable. Here’s an excerpt to their page: R Weekly R weekly provides weekly updates from ...