Photo by David Clode on Unsplash The main advantage of using the R Markdown format is the utility of running R code within the text. This is clearly more advantageous than just writing code in a Markdown file. R Markdown is however limited to R cod...

A common challenge when creating maps is how to include an inset map on your visualization. An inset map is a smaller map usually included on a corner that may provide additional context to the overall map, or may include map units than won't be usually represented properly.

We’ll be holding a in-person training workshop on NIMBLE, June 1-3, 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal, sponsored by the Centro de Estatística e Aplicações at the Universidade Lisboa (CEAUL). NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (...

Call for proposals extended to March 13. Appsilon encourages new voices to present at the Shiny Conference. This includes Shiny users of all backgrounds and skill levels. Submit an abstract proposal for the Appsilon Shiny Conference on 27-29 April 2022.  We’ve received strong engagement from enterprises. However, we want to allow ...

I’ve talked a little bit about pipes (written as %__%) in a past blog post, but they’re so important in R that I thought they deserved their own post. In this tutorial, I’m going to give an explanation of what pipes are and when the...

By far the easiest way to detect and interpret the interaction between two-factor variables is by drawing an interaction plot in R. It displays the fitted values of the response variable on the Y-axis and the values of the first factor on the X-axis. The second factor is represented through ...