Let’s talk about NA-s!

July 22, 2025 | R on Biofunctor

ARTHUR: Well, what is it you want? HEAD KNIGHT: We want… a paste function that can deal with NA-s! A language for statistical computing clearly needs to be able to deal with missing values, and R has various ways to do so. I will briefly go th...
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Numbers of the Beast: Sasquatch Distribution Modelling

July 21, 2025 | moth

The third OII Halloween Lecture sinks bodily into the tortured mass of data concerning cryptozoological sightings in North America. Drawing on over a century of shadow-haunted sightings documenting the curiously repellant presence of the North America Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, we aim to identify the factors associated with its presence, delineate ... [Read more...]

Tagging Bioconductor packages with EDAM

July 17, 2025 | Vince Carey

Introduction The EDAM ontology is used to provide conceptual organization of resources in major initiatives like ELIXIR bio.tools and Galaxy. Bioconductor’s methods and data are tagged using an ad hoc terminologic hierarchy called biocViews. In...
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Organizing R development using srcpkgs

July 17, 2025 | Karl Forner

Overview This is an introduction on organizing R projects using source packages (powered by my R package srcpkgs). It is based on notes for a talk I have on 2024-05-27 for the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Vital-IT group Analysts meeting. T... [Read more...]

Repost: Tidy RAG in R with ragnar

July 15, 2025 | Stephen Turner

 Reposted from the original at: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/tidy-rag-in-r-with-ragnarRetrieval augmented generation in R using the ragnar package. Demonstration: scraping text from relevant links on a website and using RAG to ask about a unive...
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Benchmarking memory usage in R

July 13, 2025 | Jan Gorecki

Benchmarking memory usage in R Profiling memory in R has never been a trivial task. In this post, I would like to emphasize that currently popular methods are quite inaccurate and should therefore be used with caution. More importantly, they sh...
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