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One Hundred seventy-six new packages made it to CRAN in May. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Climate Science, Computational Methods, Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Epidemiology, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, ...

Beyond just plotting points on a chart, how can you transform a simple ggplot dotplot into a powerful narrative tool that reveals the hidden stories within your data's distribution, all while avoiding the common pitfalls of visual clutter and misinterpretation? A ggplot dotplot is a powerful data visualisation tool within ...

When things run slower than we’d like in R we tend to reach for another, usually compiled, language, and move our code there. What if it “just happened”? What started out as a silly exploration of how to count digits ended up with a race to see which l...

This is blog two of five: R Package Quality: Validation and beyond! Package Popularity (this one) In our previous post, we introduced the four components that make up a litmus package score: documentation, popularity, code quality, and maintena...

This is blog two of five: R Package Quality: Validation and beyond! Package Popularity (this one) In our previous post, we introduced the four components that make up a litmus package score: documentation, popularity, code quality, and maintena...

The second half of 2025 brings us once again to an exciting {admiral} release! Read through this blog post to learn more what is available in {admiral} 1.3. Headline update: documentation that gets you Our crowning update this release cy...

The second half of 2025 brings us once again to an exciting ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} release! Read through this blog post to learn more what is available in ADaM in R Asset Library • admiral {admiral} 1.3. Headline...

Candlestick charts are a type of financial chart used to depict the price movements of an asset over a specific period. Each “candlestick” represents a time frame—such as a day, hour, or minute—and displays four key pieces of data: the opening price, closing price, highest price, and lowest ...

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This post shows how to use the elementary theory of discrete time Markov Chains to construct a multi-state model of patients progressing through various health states in a randomized clinical trial comparing different treatments for asthma manag...

The future package celebrates ten years on CRAN as of June 19, 2025. This is the second in a series of blog posts highlighting recent improvements to the futureverse ecosystem. TL;DR You can now use my_fcn

This is the fifth part of a blog post series on spatial machine learning with R. You can find the list of other blog posts in this series in part one. This document provides an overview of three R packages, RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, a...