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French R conference sponsors

As a complement to the previous note, I have collected every single entity that sponsored a national R conference in France over the last decade. The data include 9 conferences, plus a forthcoming one. For each conference, the number of sponsors varies between 8 and 46, and the number of organising sponsors varies between 1 and 4. The dataset has...

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Remember the change in the sample() function of R 3.6.0

This note documents how the sample() function has changed since R 3.6.0, and how to reproduce its previous behaviour. A recent blog post by Christian Robert reminded me that R had to fix its sample() function in R 3.6.0 and above. The issue that used to affect the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) at the core of the function is documented in ...

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A personal R to-do list for 2021

This note lists the main things that I will be doing with R next year. I took some kind of a break from R over the past 18 months. I plan to change that this coming year, and have compiled the following list of things that I want to explore, or come back to. R Markdown While I have fully transitioned towards “tidy data” and its wonderful pack...

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