I’m very happy to announce Microsoft365R, a package for working with the Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) suite of cloud services. Microsoft365R extends the interface to the Microsoft Graph API provided by the AzureGraph package to provide a lightweight yet powerful interface to SharePoint and OneDrive, with ... [Read more...]

R Forwards is an R Foundation task force that was originally set up in December 2015 to address the underrepresentation of women in the R community. An analysis of CRAN package maintainers estimated that fewer than 15% were women, and a useR! participant survey found that women were less likely than men ... [Read more...]

by Emanuele Guidotti & David Ardia, originally published in the Journal of Open Source Software In December 2019 the first cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology were reported in Wuhan... The post Decoding Case Data Through the COVID-19 Data Hub appeared first on R Consortium. [Read more...]

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When you ask successful people for their advice on how to become successful you will often hear that you have to take risks, often huge risks. In this post we will examine whether this is good advice with a simple multi-agent simulation, so read on! The following quotes from Dan ... [Read more...]

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A new R-package, coder, has been developed, peer-reviewed by rOpenSci, accepted by CRAN, and published in a paper by the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). In this blog post, I will explain why this package might be useful for (epidemiologi... [Read more...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities around the globe to switch from on-site teaching to online teaching. As a consequence, quantitative social science classes that previously relied on closed-book in-class exams now have to administ... [Read more...]

To help new users to adopt R/exams for generating remote assessments this new free online course covers steps from installation to automatic exam generation in Moodle and PDF format. Due to the requirement to move to remote assessment during the global Covid-19 pandemic, Andrew Zammit-Mangion (University of Wollongong, School ... [Read more...]

On Thursday, February 11th at 7 pm UTC | 8 pm CET, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we have the honour to host Dr Koen Van den Berge, postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley and Ghent University. He will talk about the interpretation of single-cell... [Read more...]

On Thursday, February 25th at 7 pm UTC | 8 pm CET, as part of the Why R? Webinar series, we have the honour to host Paul Bürkner, Junior Research Group Leader at the Cluster of Excellence SimTech at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). Author of t... [Read more...]

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Presented without much commentary since I stopped once {ggrepel} and {graphlayouts} failed (RStudio doesn’t support it yet, either, which I knew). The following steps will get you a fully working and STUPID FAST fully native ARM64 M1/Apple Silicon R setup with {tidyverse} and {rJava}. Just remember, that if ... [Read more...]

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If you’ve been following me around the internets for a while you’ve likely heard me pontificate about the need to be aware of and reduce — when possible — your personal “cyber” attack surface. One of the ways you can do that is to install as few applications as possible ... [Read more...]