R-bloggers

Introduction Recently, I released a R package called starBliss that aimed to replicate the output of a e-commerce site called MapsForMoments – a site which lets users order custom prints of the night sky on the date of their choosing (usually a special occasion such as a birthday, first date, wedding ...

What’s the one thing that help you add value to your company’s raw geospatial data? GEOCODING. Geocoding is the process of converting raw physical addresses to latitude and longitude geospatial points that can be viewed on a map and used for geospatia...

In this post, I compute each batsman’s or bowler’s Win Probability Contribution (WPC) in a T20 match. This metric captures by how much the player (batsman or bowler) changed/impacted the Win Probability of the T20 match. For this computation I use my machine learning models, I had ...

I have a post coming on using base and {ggplot2} plots in VanillaJS WebR, but after posting some bits on social media regarding how slow {ggplot2} is to deal with, I had some “performance”-related inquiries, which led me down a rabbit hole that I’m, now, dragging y’all ...

Unfortunately not everyone knows about literate programming so many tables in Word documents are “generated” by hand (generated is really too strong a word) and what very often happens is that these handcrafted tables have typos. Usually it’s totals that are wrong. Checking the totals in these tables by ...

Join us at R/Medicine 2023! The 6th annual conference will be fully virtual from June 5 through 9 and feature two days of workshops followed by a day of demos,... The post Announcing R/Medicine 2023! appeared first on R Consortium.

I am thrilled to announce that the R universe of packages {healthyverse} has surpassed 60,000 downloads! Thank you to everyone who has downloaded and used these packages, your support is greatly appreciated. For those who are not familiar, the {h...

Using {shinydashboard} is great for creating dashboard prototypes with a header-sidebar-body layout. You can quickly mock up a professional looking dashboard containing a variety of outputs, including plots and tables. However, after a while, you’ll probably have had enough of the “50 shades of blue” default theme. Or, you might ...

The 21st century has been marked by a series of global crises – from environmental degradation and pandemics to economic instability and political unrest. As we hurtle forward towards the future, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the challenges we face as a species are numerous and interlinked, the word “polycrisis” ...

According to authorities, up to 205 million are facing food insecurity in about 45 countries. Besides global warming that causes poor rainfall performance, another strong reason to worry about the issue is the Russian invasion of Ukraine which causes trade-related restrictions. I’ve just wondered how this reflects on food inflation. To ...

The R Consortium recently interviewed Amal Tlili of the Tunis R User Group (Also on Twitter) to discuss her background in R and the use of R in the industry... The post Use of R for Marketing and CRM in Tunisia appeared first on R Consortium.