R-bloggers

TL;DR: {rixpress} lets you build multi-language data pipelines (R, Python, Julia) where each step runs in its own reproducible environment. Uses Nix under the hood. Now on CRAN, and there’s even a Python port on PyPI! {rixpress} is now on ...

I have been working on a presentation regarding college readiness and the use of SAT/ACT for college admissions as part of the Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement of College Skills. I wanted to see how the use of these high-stakes assessments h...

Compositional data, where observations represent proportions that sum to a constant, are ubiquitous in ecology, yet many analysts fall back on problematic approaches like separate binomial models, beta regression on ratios, or worse, standard linear regression on raw proportions. These methods ignore the fundamental constraint that proportions must sum to ...

So this is a blog post about making and finding an error in modelling strategy, in an apparently simple situation. I saw this post (toot?) on Mastodon from Daniel Lakens mentioning in passing that “On the other hand, the homicide rate across the world...

Python 3.14 was released on 7th October 2025. Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes and some trends in Python development and data-science over the past year. We will highlight the following: the colourful Python command-line interface; project-management tool uv; free-threading; and a brief summary of other developments. The Python 3.14 ...

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The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. I got a bit stalled over the holidays and while attending the fantastic useR! 2025 conference, but, as promised, here is the fourth in a series of blog posts highlighting recent...

The paper The Ten-Year Cycle in Numbers of the Lynx in Canada by Charles Elton and Mary Nicholson is a foundational work in population ecology and wildlife dynamics. They documented the regular, roughly ten-year population cycle of the Canadian Lynx (Lynx canadensis), observed in fur trade records from the Hudson’...

This post contains a riddle/puzzle related to T. Moudiki's situation, including files and code snippets in R, Python, and bash. The ZIP file with a lot of details is available for download. An update with hints is provided.

I am pleased to announce that clitable, my new R package for printing tables in the terminal, just made its way to the CRAN!! It lets you print pretty colorful tables directly in the R console or terminal. I am also quite proud that it was accep...