Version 1.1.0 of NIMBLE released

February 4, 2024 | Chris Paciorek

We’ve released the newest version of NIMBLE on CRAN and on our website. NIMBLE is a system for building and sharing analysis methods for statistical models, especially for hierarchical models and computationally-intensive methods (such as MCMC,Laplace approximation, and SMC). This release provides new functionality as well as various ...
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more .I in data.table

February 2, 2024 | HighlandR

Following on from my last post, here is a bit more about the use of .I in data.table. Scenario : you want to obtain either the first, or last row, from a set of rows that belong to a particular group. For example, for a patient admitted to ... [Read more...]

Natalia Andriychuk on RUGs, Pfizer R Center of Excellence, and Open Source Projects: Fostering R Communities Inside and Out

February 2, 2024 | R Consortium

The R Consortium recently talked with Natalia Andriychuk, Statistical Data Scientist at Pfizer and co-founder of the RTP R User Group (Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, North Carolina), to get... The post Natalia Andriychuk on RUGs, Pfizer R Center of Excellence, and Open Source Projects: Fostering R Communities Inside and ...
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Big Book of R at 400 [New milestone!]

February 2, 2024 | Oscar

Drumroll please……………….!!!!! With the addition of these 7 new books, the collection now stands at over 400 entries of (mostly) free R books! Many thanks to Markus Gesmann, Jacobus, Max Cotera, Luis, Olivier Leroy and Gary for their latest contributions. This a truly a one-of-a-kind resource. I want to give … The post ...
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simulating signed mixtures

February 1, 2024 | xi'an

While simulating from a mixture of standard densities is relatively straightforward, when the component densities are easily simulated, to the point that many simulation methods exploit an intermediary mixture construction to speed up the production of pseudo-random samples from more challenging distributions (see Devroye, 1986), things get surprisingly more complicated when ...
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How to Make Your Shiny App Beautiful

February 1, 2024 | Jakub Chojna

Shiny apps are very often used for quick prototyping and proof of concept. However, if you want to use a Shiny app in production and make it attractive to the users, you need to make sure that the app is not only functional but also visually appealing and efficient. When ...
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Quickstart for playing with LLMs locally

January 31, 2024 | Posts | Joshua Cook

With so much hype around LLMs (e.g. Chat-GPT), I’ve been playing around with various models in the hope that when I come up with a use case, I will have the skill-set to actually build the tool. For privacy and usability reasons, I’m particularly interested in running ... [Read more...]

PowerQuery Puzzle solved with R

January 30, 2024 | Numbers around us

#151–152PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIAll files (xlsx with puzzle and R with solution) for each and every puzzle are available on my Github. Enjoy.Puzzle #151Today we simplified log of people work. They just written down date and time of start and end. Not rea...
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