R-bloggers - Part 20

Machine Learning for Sports Analytics in R: A Complete Professional Guide

February 15, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Machine Learning in Sports Analytics Machine Learning has transformed modern sports analytics. What was once limited to box scores and descriptive statistics has evolved into predictive modeling, simulation systems, optimization engines, and automated scouting pipelines. Today, teams, analysts, researchers, and performance departments rely on machine ... [Read more...]

The world’s biggest ‘Pacific’ cities by @ellis2013nz

February 15, 2026 | free range statistics - R

This post is the third in a (somewhat interrupted) series on population issues in the Pacific, re-generating the charts I used in a keynote speech before the November 2025 meeting of the Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics in Wellington, New Zeala...

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Git commits: please mark your stitches!

February 14, 2026 | Maëlle's R blog on Maëlle Salmon's personal website

In which I share a crochet analogy for Git commits… Don’t forget your stitch markers! I am happily continuing my crochet learning journey. One lesson I have now internalised is that I should never ever forget or neglect to use stitch markers. Stitch ma... [Read more...]

Testing for interactions in nonlinear regression

February 13, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors. For example, genotype assessments may be performed at two different nitrogen fertilisation...

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Testing for interactions in nonlinear regression

February 13, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors. For example, genotype assessments may be performed at two different nitrogen fertilisation...

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Testing for interactions in nonlinear regression

February 13, 2026 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors. For example, genotype assessments may be performed at two different nitrogen fertilisation...

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Fitting time-to-event models with an environmental covariate

February 11, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts exapand on a paper that we have published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow this link...

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Fitting time-to-event models with an environmental covariate

February 11, 2026 | Andrea Onofri

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts exapand on a paper that we have published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow this link...

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Fitting time-to-event models with an environmental covariate

February 11, 2026 | R on Fixing the bridge between biologists and statisticians

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts exapand on a paper that we have recently published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow ...

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How Posit’s Public Package Manager manylinux_2_28 repository can help you if your R project is stuck on Ubuntu Focal Fossa

February 11, 2026 | R | Dr Tom Palmer

Introduction I am a massive fan of repositories making binary R packages available. This includes the canonical CRAN repositories, r-universe, r2u, and the Posit (Public) Package Manager, and there are others. R-universe is outstanding because it bu...

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Introducing geoboundaries

February 11, 2026 | dieghernan

If you’ve ever worked with spatial data in R, this may ring a bell…

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My Blog

February 10, 2026 | My Name

Last updated 2026-02-12 22:26:58.886187 Details Source, Session info ReuseCC BY 4.0CitationBibTeX citation:@online{name2026, author = {Name, My}, title = {My {Blog}}, date = {2026-02-11}, url = {https://pharmaverse.github.i... [Read more...]

Associated Keywords: The Missed Opportunity in Search Advertising

February 10, 2026 | Florian Teschner

Short practical advise on search advertising: Look beyond brand and category keywords The paper shows “associated keywords” — terms like “license,” “battery,” “plates” — are searched 50-80 days before purchase, have high category purchase prob... [Read more...]

Simplifying Research Data Sharing with R

February 9, 2026 | Adriana Clavijo Daza

Working with Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) researchers across multiple resource-limited countries, we observed that valuable datasets often remain underutilized. This is frequently due to limited familiarity with FAIR (Findable, Accessib...

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smooth v4.4.0

February 9, 2026 | Ivan Svetunkov

Great news, everyone! smooth package for R version 4.4.0 is now on CRAN. Why is this a great news? Let me explain! On this page: What’s new? Evaluation Setup Results What’s next? Here is what’s new since 4.3.0: First, I have worked on tuning the initialisation in adam() in ...

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R version of Python package survivalist, for model-agnostic survival analysis

February 8, 2026 | T. Moudiki

Example of use of Python package survivalist, for model-agnostic survival analysis

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Introducing flownet: Efficient Transport Modeling in R

February 8, 2026 | R, Econometrics, High Performance

I am excited to introduce a new R package called flownet providing high-performance tools for transport modeling—network processing, route enumeration, and traffic assignment in R. As of now, the package implements the Path-Sized Logit (PSL) model (Ben-Akiva and Bierlaire, 1999)—a powerful and well-established method for stochastic traffic assignment accounting ...

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Visualising income inequality social tables by @ellis2013nz

February 7, 2026 | free range statistics - R

I recently read Branko Milanovic’s 2023 book, Visions of Inequality: from the French Revolution to the Cold War and gave it five stars. The bulk of the book is an excellent critical look at the views of six major economic thinkers—Quesnay, Smith, Ricar...

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How to Predict Sports in R: Elo, Monte Carlo, and Real Simulations

February 6, 2026 | rprogrammingbooks

R • Sports Analytics • Ratings • Monte Carlo • Forecasting Sports are noisy. Teams change. Injuries happen. Upsets happen. But uncertainty is not the enemy—it’s the input. In this hands-on guide you’ll build a practical sports prediction workflow in R using tidyverse, PlayerRatings, and NFLSimulatoR, then connect ratings to Monte ... [Read more...]

Getting to the bottom of TMLE: influence functions and perturbations

February 4, 2026 | ouR data generation

I first encountered TMLE—sometimes spelled out as targeted maximum likelihood estimation or targeted minimum-loss estimate—about twelve or so years ago when Mark var der Laan, one of the original developers who literally wrote the book, gave a talk ... [Read more...]