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leaflegend is a package to extend the customization of legends for the leaflet package in R. The addLegend function provides some great out of the box legends based on the internal palette functions, but styling of the legend components has to be don...

A brief note on gerrymandering, and cracking and packing (see Warrington 2018 for a proper discussion). Specifically, a simple simulation demonstrating how gross partisan asymmetries in state legislatures can be crafted from perfectly symmetrical statewide populations. Per function below, we designate individuals in a population of N voters as either Republican ...

The fifty-five videos from last month’s rstudio::global conference are now available online. You will find them at the link above arranged in ten categories (Keynotes, Data for Good, Language Interop, Learning, Modeling, Organizational Tooling, Package Dev, Programming, Teaching, and Visualization) that reflect fundamental areas of technical and community ...

This article translates Daniel Falbel’s ‘Simple Audio Classification’ article from tensorflow/keras to torch/torchaudio. The main goal is to introduce torchaudio and illustrate its contributions to the torch ecosystem. Here, we focus on a popular da...

Click to access birthday.pdf From an X validated question, found that WordPress now allows for direct link to pdf documents, like the above paper by my old friend Anirban Das Gupta! The question is about estimating a number M of individuals with N distinct birth dates over a year ...

Version 1.0.0 (and actually 1.0.1) of the R package 'networktree' with tools for recursively partitioning covariance structures is now available from CRAN, accompanied by a paper in Psychometrika, and a dedicated software web page. ...

Exploratory Data Analysis With dplyr When it comes to data analysis in R, you should look no further than the dplyr package. It’s an excellent all-rounder – providing you with extensive drill-down abilities while keeping the coding clean and minimal. Are you completely new to R? Check out what you ...

Citizen science is a critical engine for creating professional tools that become new standards in epidemic outbreak response. The problem is connecting people on the front lines – “COVID-19 response... The post Use Your R Skills to Fight COVID-19 – COVID-19 Challenge Funded by R Consortium – Open Now! appeared first on R ...

Printing out R version is absolute no fun. So making it fun using the following useless-useful R function will make this little bit more interesting. Should be a print of “Hello R” with the version. Yes, I am rocking an…Read more ›

Introduction The IRS SOI Tax Statistics is a fabulous seemingly undiscovered data set, which should be frequently referenced in any discussion about income and taxes. We often see median income represented by Census data, but have always been ske...

The Problem State of the Code Editors Installation Configuration Writing an R Package Using VS Code Live Share Tutorial Final Thoughts The Problem Way back in the Before Time, my older brother and I worked together on an R package called {wizehiver}. To collaborate, we used many tools. We had ...

TLTR: motif is an R package aimed for pattern-based spatial analysis. It allows for spatial analysis such as search, change detection, and clustering to be performed on spatial patterns. This blog post introduces basic ideas behind the pattern-based s...

There are lots of choices for fitting generalized linear mixed effects models within R, but if you want to include smooth functions of covariates, the choices are limited. One option is to fit the model using gamm() from the mgcv ???? or gamm4() from the gamm4 ????, which use lme() (nlme ????) or ...