In scientific data and experiments, we often have groups of subjects between which we want to compare an observed response. For example, we might want to compare the growth rates of plants under different light treatments. Or maybe we want to compare C...

The newest release of polished, 0.6.0, is now on CRAN. The biggest user facing enhancement of this release is the new ability to secure R Markdown documents using Polished Auth. The secured R Markdown output can be a static document, or it can use t...

Photo courtesy of Pexels Installing software packages from public repositories like CRAN or PyPI is easy until it isn’t. New developers and veterans reading this are likely familiar with the frustration of a lost afternoon from a package failing to install accompanied by an indecipherable error message—spending hours ...

The Monash time series forecasting respository is a comprehensive collection of time series data made available in a convenient form to encourage empirical forecast evaluations. The repository includes the data from many forecasting competitions includ...

YakData SmartDesktop with RStudio Desktop Server is the best way to download & install RStudio Desktop for use on Mac or Windows computers in 2022. It includes R 4.1.2 from the Rocker project, the RStudio IDE as a web app, hundreds of top data science packages included and it is all managed easily ...

Machine learning is great, until you have to explain it. Thank god for modelStudio. modelStudio is a new R package that makes it easy to interactively explain machine learning models using state-of-the-art techniques like Shapley Values, Break Down pl...

RStudio Workbench’s 2022.02 release, code-named Prairie Trillium, includes many new and exciting features and updates. Today we’ll highlight a few noteworthy features: Specifying R Versions in the Ad Hoc Job Launcher Session Suspension ...

Disclaimer: This was originally written on my Medium blog here, so the formatting is a little different from my usual style. I have been blogging for nearly two years and with it I got to learn a lot about writing good code, challenges that arise (particularly with data science) and ...

This post highlights some of the improvements in the latest RStudio IDE release 2022.02.0, code-named “Prairie Trillium”. To read about all of the new features and updates available in this release, check out the latest Release Notes. Supp...

If you work with network data, and especially with a lot of (small) networks, you might be interested in the rgraph6 package that just made it to CRAN. It implements methods to encode and decode graphs as strings of printable ASCII characters using formats graph6, digraph6 and sparse6. The formats ...

In the previous post I described how to determine the parameter values for generating a Weibull survival curve that reflects a desired distribution defined by two points along the curve. I went ahead and implemented these ideas in the development v...

Introduction Recently, a friend running a non-profit reached out to me for some help with transforming his data. He ran a raffle campaign where he sold tickets to donors and wanted to turn the record of ticket sales into a record of raffle entries. The problem usually would take the ...

Asif Laldin was the main developer of this package, but I contributed a few functions and offered overall package development advice. This is a great effort and is crammed full of functions for working with population health datasets, standardised rates, standard visuals, etc. It contains a smorgasbord of delightful functions ...