R-bloggers

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/openai-codex-app-qqman.Earlier this week I reposted a Bluesky post from Ethan Mollick. I’m on the same page here — there are problems for sure, but these tools have irreversibly changed th...

In December, one hundred ninety-six new packages made it to CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Audio Analysis, Causal Inference, Computational Methods, Ecology, Econometrics, Epidemiology...

Option pricing using time series models (here, Theta) as market price of risk