A personal tribute to Fritz Leisch, creator of Sweave, reflecting on his impact on reproducible research and the R ecosystem.
A personal tribute to statistician John Fox, recalling his mentorship and impact on the R community through tools like Rcmdr and car.
Author Yihui Xie explains his decision to stop creating hex stickers for R packages, favoring minimal ASCII art instead to reduce visual clutter and package size.
A guide for R package maintainers on using a custom JavaScript tool to parse and organize lengthy CRAN reverse dependency check logs into manageable tabs.
Introduces xfun::tabset(), an R function for interactively exploring complex nested lists via hierarchical tabs, as an alternative to str().
A statistical analysis of the classic board game Snakes & Ladders, modeling it as a Markov chain to calculate the expected game length.
Summary of a talk on using R for geospatial predictive mapping, covering methods like Kriging and Random Forests, and tools for evaluating prediction reliability.
A blog covering data visualization, spatial analysis in R, election mapping, and social science data, with a focus on technical methods and tools.
A blog archive listing posts about data visualization, statistical analysis, and data science using the R programming language.
A technical analysis of NYC mayoral election results using R, spatial data, and GIS techniques to create maps visualizing precinct-level voting patterns.
A developer saves their company $4,500/month by replacing an expensive Oracle tool with a free R script for data analysis and visualization.
The author discusses updates to gssrdoc, an R package that provides integrated help documentation for the General Social Survey (GSS) dataset.
A technical guide on using the {gt} package to format and fix tables in Typst PDF documents, aimed at R users.
Explains why AIC comparisons between discrete and continuous statistical models are invalid, using examples with binomial and Normal distributions.
A tutorial on using Positron's Connections Pane to connect to and query DuckDB databases efficiently, especially for handling large datasets.
A guide on using Positron IDE to SSH into local Docker containers for running R code, improving reproducibility and environment management.
A tutorial on building a transformer-based language model in R from scratch, covering tokenization, self-attention, and text generation.
A technical analysis using R to classify iris images from a dataset, applying PCA and LDA for machine learning classification.
Introducing the {RKaggle} R package for downloading Kaggle datasets directly into the R console, covering installation and basic usage.
A tutorial on using the {fs} package in R for easier file path manipulation, extension management, and directory information retrieval.
