Are you passionate about financial economics and eager to learn more about empirical research methods? Then our upcoming webinar is an unmissable opportunity for you! Discover Tidy Finance: A Revolutionary... The post Join Our Upcoming Webinar: Master Tidy Finance & Access Financial Data with Expert Christoph Scheuch appeared first on R ...

Are you ready to take your R/Shiny skills to the next level? Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting your journey, we have the perfect opportunity for you to enhance your team’s collaboration, efficiency, and overall effectiveness in building stunning Shiny applications. Join us for our ...

Another frequent question of my students is how to obtain a polygon map of the seas and oceans, rather than the land polygons (countries, etc.) that are commonly imported with R spatial data packages. You can mostly just use the … Continue reading →

Among the many reasons to use data.table in your code (which includes the more common answers of speed, memory efficiency, etc.) is the syntax. The syntax is concise, predictable, and R-centric. In this post, I’d like to show how these feature...

The {bscui} R package, made recently available on CRAN, has been written to transform SVG images into interactive figures. It can be used to display data on a drawing in a report or to interact with the drawing in a R {shiny} application. The...

Compress the size of your images with R, resmush and reSmush.it

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC,Laplace approximation, and SMC). This release provides new functionality as well as various ...

Correlation heat maps are pretty easy to create with {ggplot}. But there are some things you have to watch out for. For example, ggplot doesn’t use the correct colors for such a chart by default. In this blog post, I show you how to create a cor...

The R Consortium recently talked with Natalia Andriychuk, Statistical Data Scientist at Pfizer and co-founder of the RTP R User Group (Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, North Carolina), to get... The post Natalia Andriychuk on RUGs, Pfizer R Center of Excellence, and Open Source Projects: Fostering R Communities Inside and ...

Drumroll please……………….!!!!! With the addition of these 7 new books, the collection now stands at over 400 entries of (mostly) free R books! Many thanks to Markus Gesmann, Jacobus, Max Cotera, Luis, Olivier Leroy and Gary for their latest contributions. This a truly a one-of-a-kind resource. I want to give … The post ...

In the previous article we made our first steps in Object Oriented Programming in R and learned that there are multiple ways of doing it. In this article, we will dive deeper into the S3 system – the first object-oriented system in R. Fun fact: if you have used R, you ...