An exploratory analysis of the potential effects of President Trump's tariffs on Canadian households using

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This one is named, yes, you guessed it, after Markov chains. 🙂 The babbler is there to connotate the simplicity of useless R function. It’s simple calculation of probability of words chaining and drawing the multiple times appeared chained words…Read more ›

At Jumping Rivers, we combine engineering, automation, and analytics to streamline your data workflows and make them more efficient. We take care of the tasks you don’t have the time or capacity for, improve processes you might not even know coul...

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/development-environment-portable-reproducible.You upgrade your old Intel Macbook Pro for a new M4 MBP. You’re setting up a new cloud VM on AWS after migrating away from GCP. You get an acc...

 Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/codex-positron.Last month I wrote about agentic coding in Positron using Positron assistant, which uses the Claude API on the back end.Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Pow...

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/positron-assistant-copilot-chat-agent I have a little hobby project I’m working on and I wanted to use the opportunity to fully make the switch to Positron from RStudio. I used Positro...

The French government is planning to hold a confidence vote on Prime Minister François Bayrou’s fiscal plan. If a coalition of opposition parties votes against the government, as is widely expected, Bayrou will have to submit his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron. This could cause a fall ...

Canvas quizzes can be created with exams2canvas in R/exams and then imported and managed in Canvas using the R package vvcanvas. Overview This tutorial illustrates how to use R/exams in combination with vvcanvas for c...