R-bloggers - Part 39

Some Papua New Guinea data doodles by @ellis2013nz

September 6, 2025 | free range statistics - R

I wrote a review last week of Struggle, reform, boom and bust: an economic history of Papua New Guinea since independence by Stephen Howes and others. The review was published in the Devpolicy Blog at The Australian National University’s Development Po...

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Ensemble Model for Gold Futures

September 5, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

Goldman Sachs stated that if the FED’s reputation suffers, and investors move only a small portion of their bond holdings into gold, the price of gold could rise to nearly $5,000 an ounce. But at least now, the ensemble model indicates that gold prices are in an overbought zone. Source ...

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Step-by-Step Guide to Use RSelenium with Firefox (Linux and Windows)

September 4, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. The full explanation is here: A Personal Message from an Open So... [Read more...]

Step-by-Step Guide to Use RSelenium with Firefox (Linux and Windows)

September 4, 2025 | https://pacha.dev/blog

Using RSelenium and Firefox to organize hundreds of HTML sections into one table. [Read more...]

Step-by-Step Guide to Use R and Selenium on Windows

September 3, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. The full explanation is here: A Personal Message from an Open So... [Read more...]

I’m supposed to present ‘Conformal Predictive Simulations for Univariate Time Series’ at COPA CONFERENCE 2025 in London…

September 3, 2025 | T. Moudiki

... but it's nearly impossible. Could anybody guess why? Hint in the links below.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Use R and Selenium on Windows

September 3, 2025 | https://pacha.dev/blog

Using R, selenium and purrr to organize hundreds of HTML sections into one table. [Read more...]

A Shiny app to run Grand Mean comparisons for Central Statistical Monitoring

September 2, 2025 | Home

Central Statistical Monitoring (CSM) is gaining widespread recognition for its contribution to improving data integrity and regulatory compliance in clinical trials. While the existing literature offers numerous approaches based on fundamental statist... [Read more...]

A Shiny app to run Grand Mean comparisons for Central Statistical Monitoring

September 2, 2025 | Home

Central Statistical Monitoring (CSM) is gaining widespread recognition for its contribution to improving data integrity and regulatory compliance in clinical trials. While the existing literature offers numerous approaches based on fundamental statist... [Read more...]

Effective and useful feature engineering workshop

September 2, 2025 | Dariia Mykhailyshyna

Join our workshop on Effective and useful feature engineering, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some more info: Title: Effective and useful feature engineering Date: Thursday, October 2nd, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone) Speaker: Emil Hvitfeldt is a software engineer at Posit and part ... [Read more...]

Sending plain text emails when communicating with CRAN

September 1, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee that shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. If you need an R package or Shiny dashboard for your team, you ... [Read more...]

Tidy Tuesday – Frog Distributions in Time and Space

September 1, 2025 | John Russell

Graphical and Cartographic Distributions I’m working my way into Tidy Tuesday, and I wanted to do something that combined both spatial and temporal data. The frogID dataset from week 35 of 2025 has both, so let’s take a look. This is also my fi...

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rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up

September 1, 2025 | rOpenSci - open tools for open science

As we welcome the third cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program, our second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program. In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievements, and their outreach activities. Champio... [Read more...]

Creating self-contained executable Python scripts for rendering Quarto documents using the Jupyter engine

September 1, 2025 | R | Dr Tom Palmer

Introduction In previous posts I have covered creating effectively multi-engine Quarto documents and also how to use uv virtual environments for the nbstata Jupyter kernel to run Quarto documents with Stata code. Hence by trivial extension we can use... [Read more...]

Create reports and tutorials with generative AI from R

September 1, 2025 | Bluecology blog

Create reports and tutorials with generative AI from R Several AI model providers have integrated web search capabilities into their large language models. I was attempting to use these features via the R ellmer package. However, changes to LLMs are s... [Read more...]

Sending plain text emails when communicating with CRAN

September 1, 2025 | https://pacha.dev/blog

Switch your email client to plain text mode before sending technical questions to CRAN and/or R mailing lists. [Read more...]

Create reports and tutorials with generative AI from R

September 1, 2025 | Seascapemodels

Several AI model providers have integrated web search capabilities into their large language models. I was attempting to use these features via the R ellmer package. However, changes to LLMs are so frequent that ellmer isn’t keeping up. I did ge... [Read more...]

Linear Model with Feature Engineering: Silver Prices Surge

September 1, 2025 | Selcuk Disci

Silver prices have reached a 14-year high amid growing expectations that the US Federal Reserve (FED) will cut interest rates this month. According to the machine learning model, the bands are down, and the price is above the upper band, indicating anomalous price levels. Source code:

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Do you need a custom R package or Shiny dashboard for your team?

August 31, 2025 | pacha.dev/blog

Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee that shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts. If you need an R package or Shiny dashboard for your team, you ... [Read more...]

🌍 Data Science for Open WASH Data: Building a Global Community!

August 31, 2025 | Adriana Clavijo Daza

We’re thrilled to have 124 registrations so far from passionate learners worldwide who are ready to transform water, sanitation, and hygiene data into actionable insights! 📊 🗺 Global reach, diverse perspectives: Our participants span co...

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