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Data Challenges for R Users

March 9, 2022 | R Views

Today, I want to write about “data challenges”, where participants partake in a series of prompts designed for a variety of skill sets and levels. These challenges are opportunities to practice programming skills, work on algorithm...
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January 2022: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

February 27, 2022 | R Views

Two Hundred and two new packages made it to CRAN in January. Several were in applications areas that don’t show up very often, and a few of these made it into my January “Top 40” picks. My selections are listed below in thirteen categories: Agriculture, Computational Methods, Data, Engineering, Finance, ...
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Wordle Data Analysis

February 20, 2022 | R Views

Arthur Holtz is a Senior FP&A Manager at Shipt, but don’t let the title mislead you — he spends most of his days buried in databases and R, analyzing data. This post is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by his employer. Intro By now, I’m sure most people ...
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CRAN “Golden Oldies” and “One Hit Wonders”

February 15, 2022 | R Views

If you are a regular R Views reader, then you know that every month I post my Top 40 picks for new CRAN packages. In this post, I’ll borrow some additional terminology from the Top 40 AM radio of my youth, and talk about two new categories of CRAN packages: Golden ...
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SEM Stochastic Simulation and Optimal Control

February 6, 2022 | R Views

Andrea Luciani is a Technical Advisor for the Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research at the Bank of Italy, and co-author of the bimets package. Introduction In this post, I show how to analyze the forecast error for a Structural Equation Model (SEM) by means of a stochastic simulation, ...
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December 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

January 23, 2022 | R Views

One hundred thirty-four new packages made it to CRAN last December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eight categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Data aurin v0.5.1: Implements an API for AURIN, Australia’s largest resource for accessing clean, integrated, spatially enabled and research-ready data ...
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November 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

December 20, 2021 | R Views

Two hundred eleven new packages made it to CRAN in November. Here are my “Top 40” picks in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Humanities, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. It was gratifying to see multiple packages developed for applications in the Computational Humanities. ...
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October 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

November 28, 2021 | R Views

One hundred forty-one new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” picks in twelve categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks, Science, Social Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods gslnls v1.0.2: Implements an R interface to nonlinear least-squares optimization with the ...
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How to Scrape and Store Strava Data Using R

November 21, 2021 | R Views

This post by Julian During is the third place winner in the Call for Documentation contest. Julian is a data scientist from Germany working in the manufacturing industry. Julian loves working with R (especially the tidyverse ecosystem), sp...
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Deploying xaringan Slides with GitHub Pages

November 17, 2021 | R Views

Silvia Canelón is a researcher, community organizer, and R educator. Her research leverages electronic health record data to study pregnancy-related outcomes, and her organizing values data literacy and communication as ways to build power and effect change. This post will guide you step-by-step through the process of creating an ... [Read more...]

An R Community Public Library

November 3, 2021 | R Views

If you haven’t recently visited bookdown.org, RStudio’s free site for publishing books written with the bookdown R package, you many be amazed at what is available. Currently, there are over one hundred fifty titles listed under the Books tab. These are written in a panoply of languages ... [Read more...]

September 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

October 27, 2021 | R Views

Two hundred twenty new packages stuck to CRAN in September. Here are my “Top 40” picks in fourteen categories: Art, Computational Methods, Data, Econometrics, Finance and Insurance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks and Graphs, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Art rfishdraw v0.1.0: Automatically generates fish drawings using the fishdraw ...
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A beginner’s guide to Shiny modules

October 19, 2021 | R Views

This post by Emily Riederer is the winning entry in our recent Call for Documentation contest. Emily is a Senior Analytics Manager at Capital One where she leads a team building internal analytical tools including R packages, datamarts, and Shiny apps. Outside of work, Emily can be found sharing more ...
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FDA and the Dynamics of Curves

October 13, 2021 | R Views

An elegant application of Functional Data Analysis is to model longitudinal data as a curve and then study the curve’s dynamics. For example, in pharmacokinetics and other medical studies analyzing multiple measurements of drug or protein ...
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August 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

September 26, 2021 | R Views

One hundred sixty new packages covering a wide array of topics made it to CRAN in August. I thought I would emphasize the breadth of topics by expanding the number of categories organizing my “Top 40” selections beyond core categories that appear month after month. Here are my picks in fourteen ...
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A Guide to Binge Watching R / Medicine 2021

September 8, 2021 | R Views

R / Medicine is a big deal. This year, the conference grew by 13% with 665 people from over 60 countries signing up for the virtual event which was held last month. 34% percent of the registrants were from outside of the United States and 17% identified as physicians. The conference is now an established international ...
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July 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages

August 25, 2021 | R Views

One hundred eighty-three new packages stuck to CRAN in July. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Although I don’t have any formal specification for these categories, I do my best to main my ...
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R / Medicine 2021

August 11, 2021 | R Views

R/Medicine 2021, the premier conference for the use of R in clinical applications is less than two weeks away! This conference reflects the increasing importance of data science, computational statistics and machine learning to clinical applications, and emphasizes the effectiveness of the R language as a vehicle for making data ...
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