The R Consortium is happy to announce that on Nov 22nd, 2021, the R Submissions Working Group successfully submitted an R-based test submission package through the FDA eCTD gateway! The... The post Successful R-based Test Package Submitted to FDA appeared first on R Consortium.

Introduction In a previous post, I looked at how House Representatives referred to the 45th US President on Twitter during the 116th Congress. Variation was super interesting, and demonstrated (in part) that party affiliation influenced how House members referred to 45. Namely, Republicans more frequently used referring expressions that highlighted the ...

The COVID-19 Data Hub provides a daily summary of COVID-19 cases, deaths, recovered, tests, vaccinations, and hospitalizations for 230+ countries, 760+ regions, and 12000+ administrative divisions of lower level. It includes p...

Series of Apache Spark posts: Dec 01: What is Apache Spark Dec 02: Installing Apache Spark Dec 03: Getting around CLI and WEB UI in Apache Spark Dec 04: Spark Architecture – Local and cluster mode Dec 05: Setting up Spark Cluster Dec 06: Setting up IDE…Read more ›

If you’re in the business of business analytics, you know what Tableau is. It’s one of the top drag-and-drop BI tools for analyzing and visualizing data. Pretty much anyone can use it to make decent dashboards. But here’s the problem – it’s quite limiting for developers with ...

In a previous post I documented what I had learned while trying to understand the structure of encrypted emails. I then took an informal Twitter poll to gauge how many people are using encrypted email messages. library(tweetrmd) tweet_screenshot(tweet_url("datawookie", "1464960543723339777")) -- It’s by no means a ...

Here’s a fun little project I worked on over the weekend. This script can take a .tsv file of quotes/text and their sources, and output pretty Instagram-ready quote images with a splash of random colouring. For example: I’d seen a few pe...

In the previous post, I described an incipient effort that I am undertaking with two colleagues, Monica Taljaard and Fan Li, to better understand the implications for collecting baseline measurements on sample size requirements for stepped wedge cl...

Series of Apache Spark posts: Dec 01: What is Apache Spark Dec 02: Installing Apache Spark Dec 03: Getting around CLI and WEB UI in Apache Spark Dec 04: Spark Architecture – Local and cluster mode Dec 05: Setting up Spark Cluster Let’s look…Read more ›

Shiny Weekly has officially launched! The Shiny Weekly newsletter is our way of creating a central resource for R Shiny news from the R community. We’re so thankful to those who manage R news aggregators and to those of you who post quality, informative content. We feel that a ...