https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/wealth-boundaries/
Nov 27, 2025 - Boundary – CC BY-ND by Hiroyuki Takeda Day 27 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Boundaries » (previously). There are still borders in Europe: wealth is not...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/book-recommendations/
There was a very long time without a blog post from me. I will start now again with a very short blog post with some book and blog recommendations. I think two...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/11/logarithmic-regression-in-r-a-step-by-step-guide-with-prediction-intervals/
Introduction Logarithmic regression is a statistical technique used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and an independent variable when the...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/icymi-rpweave-unified-r-python-latex-system-using-uv/
Nov 20, 2025 - Introducing RPweave, a unified document system that seamlessly integrates R, Python, and LaTeX for reproducible research and professional typesetting.
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/08/taking-from-infinite-sequences/
One thing that has really caught my attention as I learn more programming languages is the idea of generators or infinite sequences of values. Yes, infinite....
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2021/02/remote-pair-programming-in-r-using-visual-studio-code-and-live-share-2/
The Problem State of the Code Editors Installation Configuration Writing an R Package Using VS Code Live Share Tutorial Final Thoughts The problem Way back in...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/09/how-to-avoid-for-loop-in-r/
A FOR loop is the most intuitive way to apply an operation to a series by looping through each item one by one, which makes perfect sense logically but should...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2012/06/system-from-trend-following-factors/
As I thought more about Trend Following Factors from Hsieh and Fung, I thought that the trend following factors might indicate a state/regime for the equity...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/09/moderated-network-models-for-continuous-data/
Statistical network models have become a popular exploratory data analysis tool in psychology and related disciplines that allow to study relations between...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2011/02/screen-scraping-mapping-in-r/
by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The PowerPoint slides below give an overview of screen scraping and mapping in R. Details with comments about many of the R...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/06/a-journey-through-arrow-in-r/
How to join this free online event with Stephanie Hazlitt, Jonathan Keane and Nic Crane. Apache Arrow is a software development platform for building high...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/11/unveiling-power-regression-a-step-by-step-guide-in-r/
Introduction In the realm of statistics, power regression stands out as a versatile tool for exploring the relationship between two variables, where one...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2014/02/r-skills-attract-the-highest-salaries/
Two recent salary surveys have shown that R language skills attract median salaries in excess of $110,000 in the United States. In the 2014 Dice Tech Salary...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/11/fantasy-football-weekly-cheat-sheet-week-9-2022/
Week 9 Cheat Sheet and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Fantasy Football Weekly Cheat Sheet: Week 9 (2022) appeared first on Fantasy...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2013/08/big-data-sets-you-can-use-with-r/
by Joseph Rickert The world may indeed be awash with data, however, it is not always easy to find a suitable data set when you need one. As the number of...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/08/cachesweave/
I finally figured out how to use the R package "cachesweave". The trick is that the code chunks must follow some order, like the...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2007/02/statistics-on-microsoft-excel/
Here is an interesting document on problems of using Microsoft Excel for statistical analysis. http://gcrc.ucsd.edu/biostatistics/Excel.pdf Technorati Tags:...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2014/01/the-tornado-project-annual-tornado-frequency-by-location/
The goal of this open source R-based analysis, as mentioned earlier (first post, second post) is to bring consistency and transparency to the analyses of...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2016/04/the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-text/
When I went to the rOpenSci unconference about a month ago, I started work with Dave Robinson on a package for text mining using tidy data principles. What is...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/11/r-finance-2010-call-for-papers/
Jeff sent the following while I had connectivity issues and I hadn't gotten around to posting it here. So without further ado, and given the success of our...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2014/09/pkgkitten-0-1-2-still-creating-r-packages-that-purr/
A brown bag release 0.1.2 of pkgKitten is now on CRAN, following yesterday's 0.1.1 upload Next time I'll try to remember that when I have parameters name and...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/from-runit-to-testthat-with-coding-agent-support/
Nov 24, 2025 - A case study of AI-supported maintenance in an R package Migrating a Test Suite Going from one testing framework to another in a mature R package can be...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/06/code-for-workshop-introduction-to-machine-learning-with-r/
These are the slides from my workshop: Introduction to Machine Learning with R which I gave at the University of Heidelberg, Germany on June 28th 2018. The...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2017/03/sentiment-analysis-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-with-tidytext/
You got me thinking about Watson and its unprecedented flexibility in analyzing different data sources (at least according to IBM). So how difficult it would...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/03/self-documenting-plots-in-ggplot2/
Mar 10, 2022 - When I am showing off a plotting technique in ggplot2, I sometimes like to include the R code that produced the plot as part of the plot. Here is an example I...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2015/12/how-to-learn-r-2/
Jul 16, 2024 - Readers of R-bloggers are invited to visit our sponsor, Datacamp, for their online R courses. Specifically, the R programming track offers a series of 6...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/12/get-started-with-machine-learning-in-r/
A Beautiful WWW put together a great set of resources for getting started with machine learning in R. First, they recommend the previously mentioned free book,...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2008/04/speed-issue-in-r-computing-apply-vs-a-loop/
In R, apply() is NOT faster than a loop!!I don't know where I pick up this perception about apply() being faster than a loop in R. For a long time, I always...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/08/exploring-box-plots-with-mean-values-using-base-r-and-ggplot2/
Introduction Data visualization is a powerful tool for understanding and interpreting data. In this blog post, we will explore how to create box plots with...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/09/data-visualisation-pitfalls-how-to-avoid-barbarplots/
You did an experiment or a survey, or you collected data, and you are ready to analyse them. But what is the first step? Everyone will tell you that you have...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2016/12/distributional-semantics-in-r-part-1-tm-classes-readwrite/
The R code for this tutorial on Methods of Distributional Semantics in R is found in the respective GitHub repository. Following my Methods of Distributional...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2014/11/practical-data-science-cookbook/
Practical Data Science Cookbook My friends Sean Murphy, Ben Bengfort, Tony Ojeda and I recently published a book, Practical Data Science Cookbook. All of us...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2013/12/pps-3-state-model/
I recently found THIS site on the internet which I thought would be another good case-study. As a standalone figure, it can be rendered as follows with ggtern:...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/02/pdq-r-lives/
After some fiddling to get things linked correctly to the R binaries on my new Macbook, the first PDQ-R test model has run successfully! Here 'tiz ...This is...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/03/kaizen-project-for-r-package-documentation/
Anyone familiar with R will know that in addition to being a superb language for statistical computing, it comprises an ecosystem and community of...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/06/visualization-in-r-unleashing-the-power-of-the-abline-function/
Introduction Welcome to the world of data visualization in R! In this blog post, we will explore the abline() function, a versatile tool that allows you to add...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2008/11/using-the-booktabs-package-with-sweave-and-xtable/
The xtable package in R can output R data as latex tables. Used in conjunction with Sweave it is possible to automatically generate tables in a report....
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/11/r-tutorial-series-scatterplots/
A scatterplot is a useful way to visualize the relationship between two variables. Similar to correlations, scatterplots are often used to make initial...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/11/how-stable-is-china/
The current protests in China make many people wonder whether the situation will escalate further. For a demographics-based analysis (youth bulge theory), read...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/11/extracting-information-about-spatial-patterns-from-spatial-signatures/
The spatial signatures of categorical rasters are a set of numbers that describe the spatial patterns of the provided variables. Next, they allow for further...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2006/01/r-screenshot-and-fan-photo/
Screenshot of an R session running on Gentoo Linux 1.4 My asking an autograph to Bill Venables, for my MASS, at the 9th. Brazilian School of Regression Models...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/10/the-grammar-of-graphics-l-wilkinson-2/
Though this book is supposed to be a description of the graphics infrastructure a statistical system could provide, you can and should also see it as a (huge,...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/10/extract-patterns-in-r/
The post Extract patterns in R? appeared first on Data Science Tutorials What do you have to lose?. Check out Data Science tutorials here Data Science...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2016/12/survival-analysis/
Survival analysis corresponds to a set of statistical methods for investigating the time it takes for an event of interest to occur. In this chapter, we start...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2008/07/download-option-price-data-from-yahoo/
This R program can be used to download option price data from Yahoo to a data frame and to plot the corresponding implied-volatility smiles....
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/01/review-of-r-in-nyt-and-gdat/
GDAT instructor, Jim Holtman, pointed me at this review of R in yesterday's New York Times. It definitely puts SAS on the defensive.Update: Another piece in...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2015/02/a-data-table-r-tutorial-by-datacamp-intro-to-dti-j-by/
This data.table R tutorial explains the basics of the DT[i, j, by] command which is core to the data.table package. If you want to learn more on the data.table...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/october-2025-top-40-new-cran-packages/
Nov 27, 2025 - Data AlgeriAPIs v0.1.0: Provides functions to access data from public RESTful APIs, including World Bank API and REST Countries API, retrieving real-time or...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/03/adding-competing-risks-in-survival-data-generation/
Mar 15, 2022 - I am working on an update of simstudy that will make generating survival/time-to-event data a bit more flexible. There are two biggish enhancements. The first...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/toponymy/
Nov 24, 2025 - Texte latin sur marbre noir – CC BY-NC-SA by Francisco Gonzalez Day 24 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Places and their names » (previously). BDTOPO is the most...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2017/07/hacking-strings-with-stringi/
Jul 28, 2017 - In the last set of exercises, we worked on the basic concepts of string manipulation with stringr. In this one we will go further into hacking strings universe...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/07/score-with-scoring-rules/
INCENTIVES TO STATE PROBABILITIES OF BELIEF TRUTHFULLY We have all been there. You are running an experiment in which you would like participants to tell you...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2009/10/visualizing-sample-relatedness-in-a-gwas-using-plink-and-r/
Strict quality control procedures are extremely important for any genome-wide association study. One of the first steps you should take when running QC on your...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2020/02/jagsaddin-an-rstudio-addin/
I have been aware of the RStudio AddIns for a while now but never really saw the usefulness in them (see here https://rstudio.github.io/rstudioaddins/). To me...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2012/10/the-little-half-another-le-monde-puzzle/
I found this Le Monde puzzle of June 16 I had stored and then somehow forgotten with my trips to Japan and Australia: There are n beans in a box, with...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2011/11/pseudo-random-vs-random-numbers-in-r-2/
Earlier, I found an interesting post from Bo Allen on pseudo-random vs random numbers, where the author uses a simple bitmap (heat map) to show that the rand...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/06/r-for-predictive-modeling-and-data-visualization-in-turkey/
Mustafa Cavus, organizer of the Eskisehir R User Group, in Turkey, discussed the diverse and thriving R community in Eskisehir. He shared the details of a...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2021/02/using-the-data-carpentries-social-science-curriculum-to-analyze-the-kenyan-budget/
Data Carpentries builds communities to teach data literacy, primarily for masters and doctoral researchers, but the skills taught are applicable in a wide...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2011/04/statistical-practice-in-epidemiology-using-r/
This is a long running course which usually takes place in Tartu, Estonia. This year we are hosting it at IARC in Lyon, France. The course is intended for...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2015/02/the-software-behind-this-clickbait-data-visualization-will-blow-your-mind/
New media sites like Buzzfeed and Upworthy have mastered the art of "clickbait": headlines and content designed to drive as much traffic as possible to their...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/07/step-by-step-guide-to-scrape-un-comtrade-metadata-with-r-and-selenium/
R and Shiny Training: If you find this blog to be interesting, please note that I offer personalized and group-based training sessions that may be reserved...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/07/pca-vs-autoencoders-for-dimensionality-reduction/
Jul 28, 2018 - There are a few ways to reduce the dimensions of large data sets to ensure computational efficiency such as backwards […] The post PCA vs Autoencoders for...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2013/02/make-building-r-packages-easier-with-devtools/
If you're writing any significant amount of R code, you might want to start think about bundling it up into packages. An R package combines functions, data,...
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https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/03/modding-rome-total-war-avatar-the-last-airbender-mod-using-r/
This blog post will be on a very weird mash-up of a few of my interests, Rome: Total War, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and of course the R programming language!...
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