Publications by R Views
An R Community Public Library
If you haven’t recently visited bookdown.org, RStudio’s free site for publishing books written with the bookdown R package, you many be amazed at what is available. Currently, there are over one hundred fifty titles listed under the Books tab. These are written in a panoply of languages including Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, German, ...
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Deploying xaringan Slides with GitHub Pages
Silvia Canelón is a researcher, community organizer, and R educator. Her research leverages electronic health record data to study pregnancy-related outcomes, and her organizing values data literacy and communication as ways to build power and effect change. This post will guide you step-by-step through the process of creating an HTML xaringan s...
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How to Scrape and Store Strava Data Using R
This post by Julian During is the third place winner in the Call for Documentation contest. Julian is a data scientist from Germany working in the manufacturing industry. Julian loves working with R (especially the tidyverse ecosystem), sports, black coffee and cycling. I am an avid runner and cyclist. For the past couple of years, I have recorde...
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October 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred forty-one new packages made it to CRAN in October. Here are my “Top 40” picks in twelve categories: Computational Methods, Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks, Science, Social Science, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. Computational Methods gslnls v1.0.2: Implements an R interface to nonlinear...
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The COVID19 package, an interface to the COVID-19 Data Hub
The COVID-19 Data Hub provides a daily summary of COVID-19 cases, deaths, recovered, tests, vaccinations, and hospitalizations for 230+ countries, 760+ regions, and 12000+ administrative divisions of lower level. It includes policy measures, mobility, and geospatial data. This post presents version 3.0.0 of the COVID19 package to seamlessly impor...
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November 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
Two hundred eleven new packages made it to CRAN in November. Here are my “Top 40” picks in thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Humanities, Machine Learning, Medicine, Networks, Statistics, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization. It was gratifying to see multiple packages developed for applications ...
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Interview with Oscar Baruffa, Creator of the Big Book of R
Welcome to the new year! If you’re itching to improve your R skills in 2022, we have the resource for you. We’re excited to share the Big Book of R. “Your last-ever bookmark”, the Big Book of R is an impressive collection of R-related books from a variety of subjects. Creator Oscar Baruffa first published the book in August 2020. Since th...
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December 2021: “Top 40” New CRAN Packages
One hundred thirty-four new packages made it to CRAN last December. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eight categories: Data, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Utilities, and Visualization. Data aurin v0.5.1: Implements an API for AURIN, Australia’s largest resource for accessing clean, integrated, spatially enabled and...
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SEM Stochastic Simulation and Optimal Control
Andrea Luciani is a Technical Advisor for the Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research at the Bank of Italy, and co-author of the bimets package. Introduction In this post, I show how to analyze the forecast error for a Structural Equation Model (SEM) by means of a stochastic simulation, and how to perform optimal control. In m...
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CRAN “Golden Oldies” and “One Hit Wonders”
If you are a regular R Views reader, then you know that every month I post my Top 40 picks for new CRAN packages. In this post, I’ll borrow some additional terminology from the Top 40 AM radio of my youth, and talk about two new categories of CRAN packages: Golden Oldies and One Hit Wonders. Golden Oldies On Top 40 radio, Golden Oldies are tun...
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