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Setup Loading the R libraries and data set. # Loading libraries library(geomtextpath) # For adding text to ggplot2 curves library(tidytuesdayR) # For loading data set library(ggbeeswarm) # For creating a beeswarm plot library(tidyverse) # For the gg...

In chapter 17 “Parametric nonlinear models” of Bayesian Data Analysis1 by Gelman et al., the authors present an example of fitting a curve to a serial dilution standard curve and using it to estimate unknown concentrations. Below, I build t...

Even if this sounds incredible, yes, we can predict future recessions using a couple of time series, some simple econometric models, and … R !  The basic idea is that the slope of the yield curve is somewhat linked to the probability of future recessions. In other words, the difference between the ...

By Huey Fern Tay with Greg Page When are two variables too related to one another to be used together in a linear regression model? Should the maximum acceptable correlation be 0.7? Or should the rule of thumb be 0.8? There is actually no single, ‘one-size-fits-all’ answer to this question. As an ...

Tell us about yourself My name is Dattijo Murtala Makama, I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR). I... The post Using the Local Dialect to Teach R Programming appeared first on R Consortium.

Services like Mailchimp and MailerLite make it easy to create stylish email campaigns. Their templating tools allow you to create elegant HTML messages which are personalised to the recipient. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could do something similar when sending emails from R? Well, with the latest version ...

For my handful of followers, you may have noticed something strange. Over the past two days, I released updates to all four of my packages on CRAN. I decided to practice what I preach and actively reduce dependency hell by moving from testhat to tinytest. I have been programming for ...

The {emayili} package for sending emails from R works well within a Shiny app. You just need to set it up right. I’ve added a simple demonstration script to the latest version of {emayili}. You’ll find it in the inst/shiny/send-message directory. Setup Probably the easiest way ...

(¿Quieres más detalles sobre el curso en español? Desplázate hacia abajo.) Hello everyone! This blog post is a bit different from usual posts in that I’d like to make a very exciting announcement about an upcoming course launch. Part of my vision...

The study of food webs is very relevant, considering the role these networks have in describing the transfer of energy and matter in the ecosystem (Thompson et al. 2012). As such, the evaluation of the robustness to species extinctions is an important step in any analysis evaluating food web stability. The ...

We are proud to announce the First Annual Appsilon Shiny Conference on 27-29 April 2022, hosted by Appsilon with support from RStudio PBC. Subscribe to updates about the CFP, guest speakers, and registration information here. The virtual conference will feature guest speakers from the R Community including Eric Nantz of the ...

The game Wordle has taken the world (or at least my facebook feed) by storm. It’s a really simple word game that’s a lot like the classic Mastermind. Here are the rules from the Wordle website: The logic behind the … Continue reading →

A while back, I wrote this tweet showing many (not all!) of the ways one might search for a particular set of columns in a data frame using R. Several of these approaches used the {magrittr} pipe (%__%) and the native R pipe (|__), the lat...

This post outlines the steps needed for building R 4.2 for Windows with OpenBLAS using the the new Rtools42 build system. With the soon-to-be released new UCRT toolchain for building R on Windows, the build process changes once again. First and foremost, we Windows users owe a deep debt of gratitude ...

This is a follow-up post. If you are interested in other posts of this series, please go to: https://www.statforbiology.com/tags/drcte/. All these posts expand on a manuscript that we have recently published in the Journal ‘Weed Science’; please follow this link to the paper. In order ...