R-bloggers

Last month, Vicki Boykis recommended the book “Code that Fits in Your Head” by Mark Seemann. I was intrigued, especially by her takeaway that “Writing good software should be a slow and deliberate craft”. The book reminded of Th... [Read more...]

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I gave the first of this year’s Ihaka Lectures at the University of Auckland this past July. It revisited and partially updated things I’ve been talking about for the past eighteen months or so on trust in data visualization (and b... [Read more...]

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Join our workshop on From Raw Data to Regulatory Results: Clinical Trial Programming in R using the pharmaverse,  which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  Here’s some more info:  Title: From Raw Data to Regulatory Results: Clinical Trial Programming in R using the pharmaverse Date: Thursday, ... [Read more...]

When I joined BASEflow Malawi as a Data Steward, I thought I had a fairly clear picture of what my work would involve. I expected to organize datasets, improve data quality, and publish information that could support research and decision making... [Read more...]

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For R users that are just starting with R or that have been using it for years [Read more...]

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Read it in: Español. Population censuses are a key source of information for understanding the composition of populations and how they change across regions within a country. They provide essential evidence for research, the design and evaluation of public policies, and informed decision-making. Working with census data typically involves ... [Read more...]

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The time savings are often offset by dead end pursuits There’s a lot of skill in using AI coding assistance in ways that are effective and actually save your time. I find in many cases, if you jump onto these tools too soon in a project, you end... [Read more...]

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Attentive package authors already noticed something new in their r-universe page over the past few weeks: R-universe has quietly started building and checking packages for Windows ARM64. https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/pdftools#checktable https://cra... [Read more...]

FADE IN Nine students in the M.S. in Psychology Research program at Brooklyn College, New York City (NYC), USA are taking the course Reproducible Psychological Research, where they are learning how to code for the first time. All of them have their c... [Read more...]

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