On behalf of the pharmaverse council, we’d like to introduce you to Laura Needleman – an active member of our community who has volunteered to support us as a champion around DE&I. All of our efforts to this day have started from the groun...

Let’s continue our exploration of integrating JavaScript code into a {shiny} application! We will show how to move beyond the classic graphs produced in base R or with {ggplot2} to explore the interactive dataviz production libraries of JavaScri...

Puzzles no. 529–533PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #529Today we need to look for some numbers and sum it up. So what is the problem? We have numbe...

GxP validation can be a complex and often misunderstood process, with each company implementing their own unique approach. During a recent roundtable I attended at the R/Pharma Summit in Seattle, there was a recurring theme that stood out to me – every company seems to have their own definition of ...

Causal forests model treatment effect inhomogeneity. We use XAI tools to interpret such model to see which features are associated with the treatment effect.

Prediction sets and prediction intervals for conformalized Auto XGBoost, Auto LightGBM, Auto CatBoost, Auto GradientBoosting

‘Fascinating’ describes my journey with Stable Diffusion 3. It’s deepened my appreciation for original art and masterpieces. Understanding how to generate quality art is just the beginning—it drives me to explore the underlying struc...

This blog post will be a long one as we’ll create this fancy interactive table: INSERT TABLE HERE To do so, we’ll proceed in two steps: We’ll web-scrape the data for this table from the Internet using {rvest}. We’ll put everything into a nice table using {...

The R Consortium is excited to announce the second cycle of the 2024 Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grants Program. The Call for Proposals will open soon. This initiative aims to... The post The 2024 ISC Grant Program will begin Accepting Applications Soon! appeared first on R Consortium.

Not proportional to w A week ago I was surprised to read on Thomas Lumley’s Biased and Inefficient blog that when using R’s sample() function without replacement and with unequal probabilities of individual units being sampled: “What R currently h...

Quick/automated R package development workflow (assuming you're using macOS or Linux) Part2

A few months Michael Read of the Australian Financial Review published a chart showing real household income in Australia plummetting, relative to the OECD, since late 2021. A version of this drifted across my social media feed and interested me. Firs...

In today’s data-driven world, the ability to present information clearly and efficiently is essential across various fields, from business to academia. As the volume of data continues to grow, the importance of well-structured and easily interpretable reports becomes increasingly critical. This series on adapting the International Business Communication Standards (...

The first in-person UseR! conference after the Covid pandemic took place between 8 and 11 July 2024 in Salzburg, Austria. Hosted by Roche and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich) with support by the R Consortium and Linux Foundati...