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March 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

April 29, 2025 | Joseph Rickert

In March, one hundred eighty-two new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in sixteen categories: Agriculture, Archaeology, Biology, Climate Modeling, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learning, M...
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flags: Fun with Flags

April 29, 2025 | R/exams

Single-choice knowledge quiz question in which the correct flag for a country has to be selected from a list of flags. Name: flags Type: schoice Related: capitals, countrycodes Preview: Which is the fl...
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surveydown: An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys workshop

April 29, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on surveydown: An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  Here’s some more info:  Title:surveydown: An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys Date: Thursday, May 29th, 18:00 – 20:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: ... [Read more...]

sumdiff: Sum Minus Difference

April 28, 2025 | R/exams

Exercise template for a very basic arithmetic task, namely computing the sum of two random numbers minus their difference. Name: sumdiff Type: num Related: deriv Preview: By how much is the sum of the ...
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Announcing… schematic

April 27, 2025 | Will Hipson

I’m thrilled to announce the release of schematic, an R package that helps you (the developer) communicate data validation problems to non-technical users. With schematic, you can leverage tidyselect selectors and other conveniences to compare i... [Read more...]

How the DSGE sausage is made

April 27, 2025 | datascienceconfidential - r

Introduction Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models are a class of models which attempt to model the entire economy of a nation. The purpose of this post is to hand-code a DSGE model in R, fit it to data, and check that the results agree...
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proximal sampler

April 27, 2025 | xi'an

At the Columbia workshop last week, Andre Wibisono presented work related with a recent arXival on the exponentially fast convergence of both unadjusted Langevin and  proximal sampler algorithms under strong [definitely strong] log-concavity assumptions. The idea behind the proximal sampler is to target the demarginalised density by introducing an auxiliary ...
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