R-bloggers - Part 5

Outcomes from EuroBioC2026 Tidyomics Hackathon

July 19, 2026 | Juan Henao

Two days, four participants, four aims The first Tidyomics community hackathon took place on 1st and 2nd June in Turku, Finland, as part of the EuroBioC2026 conference pre-events. Here, four researchers from around the globe joined efforts to e...

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Reading ‘Radical Uncertainty’

July 18, 2026 | datascienceconfidential - r

I recently read John Kay and Mervyn King’s book Radical Uncertainty as part of an economics book club and I thought I would share some thoughts on the book here. I’ve never read anything by John Kay before, but this is the second book by King which I ... [Read more...]

Tabular Foundation Models: A First Look with TabICL

July 18, 2026 | R'tichoke

Tabular foundation models are a new category of machine learning model that can perform zero-shot (i.e., without any gradient updates) prediction on tabular datasets. They are pretrained on a distribution of synthetic tables and can transfer to n... [Read more...]

Mapping U.S. Rents by County in R with tidycensus, sf and ggplot2

July 18, 2026 | Lukas Halvorsen

The U.S. Census Bureau publishes the rent that a typical household pays in every county in the country, updated every year, and gives it…

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Mapping Live U.S. Wildfire Smoke in R with sf and ggplot2

July 17, 2026 | Lukas Halvoorsen

NOAA analysts trace wildfire smoke plumes from satellite imagery every day and publish them as open GIS shapefiles. The files live at a predictable,…

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Five pre-flight checks for your dashboard

July 16, 2026 | The Jumping Rivers Blog

So you’ve built your data pipeline, you’ve designed your dashboard and you’ve connected the two through a real app. The screenshots match the designs and you can show it off and wow the stakeholders. Ready to launch, right? Well, maybe. In this post we’ll cover five ...

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How much have prices increased?

July 16, 2026 | Jerry Tuttle

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a widely used measure of the prices of goods and services purchased by households. It’s the primary tool for tracking inflation and changes in the cost of living over time. The index is built from monthly price collections on a “basket” of goods ...

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Repost: Automatically compile Quarto reports when new data lands

July 15, 2026 | Stephen Turner

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/turn-new-data-into-quarto-reports-automaticallyThe {watcher} R package monitors your filesystem and run arbitrary code when files change. You can use this to automate things like creating pa...

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Eruption: announcing new R package VolcanoPlotR

July 15, 2026 | Stephen Royle

This is a short post to announce the release of an R package, VolcanoPlotR. Background Using proteomics, we often want to compare two experimental groups. A popular way to visualise this comparison this is via a volcano plot, where the enrichment of proteins in one condition is towards the right ...

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From Peer Review to Mentorship: My rOpenSci Story

July 13, 2026 | rOpenSci

Getting Involved with rOpenSci I first came to rOpenSci in 2022, though at the time I barely knew what it was. I was getting a statistical package of mine ready to submit to the Journal of Statistical Software, and that is how I was pointed toward rO... [Read more...]

My last R posts: How conformalization helps weak models, fast conformal prediction with jackknife+ (and no refitting), and sklearn in R

July 12, 2026 | T. Moudiki

My last R posts: How conformalization helps weak models, fast conformal prediction with jackknife+ (and no refitting), and sklearn in R.

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Tabler Server A minimal framework to create web dashboards in R

July 12, 2026 | https://pacha.dev/blog

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Testing racial predictions with BISG

July 11, 2026 | Jerry Tuttle

Regulators expect insurance companies, banks, and others not to discriminate by race, but businesses are not allowed to collect the race of their customers. One solution for testing discrimination in the aggregate ... [Read more...]

Instacart is running fixed effect regressions with PyFixest!

July 10, 2026 | Alex Fischer

Instacart logo Ben Knight from Instacart has published a great write-up on how they use pyfixest “in production” for measuring the effects of marketplace experiments. For an open source developer, there is of course nothing more rewarding th...

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{golem} 1.0.0 is here

July 10, 2026 | Colin Fay

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: {golem} 1.0.0 is here After years of powering Shiny applications in production, {golem} — our opinionated framework for building production-grade Shiny apps as R packages — has finally reached a symbolic milestone: version 1.0.0. This is more than ... [Read more...]

How to Put your Course Book Online

July 8, 2026 | Credibly Curious

Credibly Curious Nick Tierney's (mostly) rstats blog I recently gave a talk, The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher My main point in this is: Your course materials should be out th...

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SummaryTables: Publication-Ready Summary Tables for jamovi

July 8, 2026 | ["Nour Edin Darwish"]

We are excited to introduce SummaryTables, a new module available in the jamovi library designed to provide an easy, flexible, and elegant way to create publication-ready analytical and summary tables. Powered by the gtsummary package in R, this module bridges the gap between running your analyses and publishing them. Instead ...

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How to Put your Course Book Online

July 8, 2026 | Blog on Credibly Curious

I recently gave a talk, The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher My main point in this is: Your course materials should be out there in public for free online. To help support this, this blog post goes through the technical det...

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Crude oil stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma by @ellis2013nz

July 8, 2026 | free range statistics - R

A very short post today. During the global fuel crisis relating to the conflict in Iran, I have been monitoring this chart, every Thursday morning my time: It shows the amount of crude oil in the Cushing facility in Oklahoma and is one of the most t...

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An API for Everything There Is to Know About Packages

July 7, 2026 | rOpenSci

On R-Universe you can discover and learn everything there is to know about R packages. But did you know it does only provide a human-friendly website, but also programmatic access to all information through APIs! Thanks to those APIs you can list univ... [Read more...]

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