Yet another post with a focus on package documentation! This time, we’ll cover vignettes a.k.a “long-form package documentation”, both basics around vignette building and infrastructure, and some tips for more maintainer- and user- friendliness. What is a vignette? Where does it live? In this section we shall ... [Read more...]

Economic data (% change on year ago) Gross domestic product Industrial production Consumer prices Unemployment rate, % latest quarter* 2020† 2021† latest latest 2020† latest United States +0.3 Q1 -5.0 -5.9 +4.7 -15.0 Apr +0.3 Apr +0.6 +14.7 Apr China -0.1 Q1 -1.0 +1.2 +9.2 +5.4 Nov§ +3.3 Apr +3.0 +3.7 Q1 Japan -2.2 Q1 -3.4 -5.2 +3.0 -6.5 Mar +0.1 Apr +0.2 +2.6 Apr Britain -1.6 Q1 -7.7 -6.5 +4.0 ... [Read more...]

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Models for individual subjects are becoming increasingly popular in psychological research. One reason is that it is difficult to make inferences from between-person data to within-person processes. Another is that time series obtained from individuals... [Read more...]

The French Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition (for which I’m currently working) is ongoing a process of opening data related to energy consumption. Each year, we publish data for every neighborhood in France (at the iris statistical level, even adresses in some cases) and to the nature ... [Read more...]

It is not easy to create secure passwords. The best way is to let a computer do it by randomly combining lower- and upper-case letters, digits and other printable characters. If you want to learn how to write a small function to achieve that read on! The exact task is ... [Read more...]

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June 4th (8:00pm UTC+2) will bring another fascinating Webinar at Why R? Foundation. We will have a presentation by Julia Silge about Understanding Word Embeddings. See you on the Webinar! Details donate: whyr.pl/donate/ channel: youtube.com/W... [Read more...]

Tis been a long time coming, but a minor change to default S3 parameters in tibbles finally caused a push of {sergeant} — the R package that lets you use the Apache Drill REST API via {DBI}, {dplyr}, or directly — to CRAN. The CRAN automatic processing system approved the release just ... [Read more...]

One of the chapters that we are especially proud of in Practical Data Science with R is Chapter 7, “Linear and Logistic Regression.” We worked really hard to explain the fundamental principles behind both methods in a clear and easy-to-understand form, and to document diagnostics returned by the R implementations of ... [Read more...]