I am currently involved with an RCT that is struggling to recruit eligible patients (by no means an unusual problem), increasing the risk that findings might be inconclusive. A possible solution to this conundrum is to find similar, ongoing trials with the aim of pooling data in a single analysis, ...

All data transformation functions in dplyr can be connected through the pipe %__% operator to create powerful and yet expressive data transformation pipelines. Use the pipe operator %__% to combine multiple dplyr functions into one pipeline %__% filter(___) %__% select(___) %__% arrange(___) Using the %__% operator The pipe operator %__% is a special part of the tidyverse ...

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A. What is Code Review? Code reviews are traditionally done in the context of a software development team that is building out a new product or feature. The goal is to ensure that anything added to the common code base is free of bugs, follows established coding conventions, and is ...

The other day, Dr. Silge from RStudio posted the screencast and blog post of her #TidyTuesday analysis of the Uncanny X-Men data set from Claremont Run Project. In her analysis, she used logistic regression to model the effect of various features of each comic book issue on the likelihood of ...

Introduction The National Hockey League (NHL) is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, founded 102 years ago in 1917. Like many other sports, the data about teams, players, games, and more are a great resource to dive in and analyze using modern software tools. Thanks to ...

A few month’s back Mrs. JLaw and I were discussing baby names (purely for academic purposes) and it got me thinking about how have popular names changed over time. It was a particular interest to me as someone who had a name that was somewhat popular for a while ...

A few month’s back Mrs. JLaw and I were discussing baby names (purely for academic purposes) and it got me thinking about how have popular names changed over time. It was a particular interest to me as someone who had a name that was somewhat popular for a while ...

This is a quick example regarding the ggtext package. It’s one of the many packages that extends ggplot2, with this one having a focus on adding and formatting text in graphs. The particularly interesting thing for me is that it allows Markdown and other formatting of the labels in ...

To select areas of interest in a data frame they often need to be ordered by specific columns. The dplyr arrange() function supports data frame orderings by multiple columns in ascending and descending order. Use the arrange() function to sort data f...