When I tried to compile RSQLite from source on Fedora 34, I was awaited by this error message. Error installing package 'RSQLite': =================================== * installing to library ‘/.../renv/staging/1’ * installing *source* package ‘RSQLite’ ... ** package ‘RSQLite’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** using staged installation ** libs g++ -m64 -std=gnu++11 -I"/usr/include/R" ... [Read more...]

Lately R version 4.1.0 was released on CRAN (see https://cran.r-project.org). The MacOS version was one day late. But yesterday it was released, too. So I wanted to test the new version without being able to go back. “No problem”, I thought... [Read more...]

I’m really happy to announce that this summer I’ll be a co-mentor on two Google Summer of Code spectroscopy projects: Once again, I’ll co-mentor with Claudia and Vilmantas to continue the work Erick started last summer on hyperSpec (see here for E... [Read more...]

In this post we share a useful tidbit we learned while developing the demo for the OpenBudgetMKD application. Like with most projects at Discindo, the OpenBudgetMKD application is based on R and {shiny}. It uses the {bs4Dash} and shinyWidgets for t... [Read more...]

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More changes to survHE. Earlier this week, I gave a talk at the Virtual Ispor US conference (our panel was W11). In preparation for the panel (and other things I was doing anyway), I got to talk to colleagues and thought a bit more of how surviv... [Read more...]

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This week we were excited to take part in (and win!) an Open Data Hackathon organized by the Metamorfosis Foundation, a prominent NGO in North Macedonia whose mission and vision are to “… strengthen the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society …”. The whole experience was very interesting, from the ... [Read more...]

My AP Stats class has started their first R programming assignment this week. I gave them the code for them to type in and play with. This will give them some experience with RStudio and basic function commands. I have a total of six assignments for th... [Read more...]

This week we were excited to take part in (and win!) an Open Data Hackathon organized by the Metamorfosis Foundation, a prominent NGO in North Macedonia whose mission and vision are to “… strengthen the awareness and capacity of citizens a... [Read more...]

This week we were excited to take part in (and win!) an Open Data Hackathon organized by the Metamorfosis Foundation, a prominent NGO in North Macedonia whose mission and vision are to “… strengthen the awareness and capacity of citizens a... [Read more...]

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Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗 rOpenSci HQ We have no less than three categories of (online ?) even... [Read more...]

Background Sankey plots have been used to visualize bilateral migration many times. My favorite examples of Sankey plots for migration data tend to be when there are only few regions or countries. As the number of regions or countries increases the plot become more cumbersome, where labels for the smaller ... [Read more...]

In this blog post I’ll explain how to use the CopernicusDEM R package based on a use case of the Movebank animal tracking data. I picked animal tracking data because there is an abundance in the Movebank archive from all over the world. In th... [Read more...]

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apply family in r contains apply(), lapply(), sapply(), mapply() and tapply(). One of the big questions is how and when to use these functions? The answer is simple it depends on the structure of your data set and how you want the outcome. The post apply family in r apply(), ... [Read more...]

The American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest is a celebration of data in which teams of undergraduates work around the clock to find and share meaning in a large, rich, and complex data set. The teams that impress the judges win prizes, and the ... [Read more...]

This blog post explains the functionality of the fitbitViz R package. If you own any of the Fitbit activity trackers you can take advantage of this package to visualize your data using ‘ggplot2’, ‘Leaflet’ and 3-dimensionsal ‘Rayshader’ Maps.... [Read more...]