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era 0.6.0: chronological comparison and difference

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era v0.6.0 is now available on CRAN: install.packages("era") library(era) This minor release adds functions for chronological comparison of year vectors: x BCE years &lt... Continue reading: era 0.6.0...

ntroduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions workshop

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Join our workshop on Introduction to All Things About bpvars, the R package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series! Here’s some...

Using ghost text and next edit suggestions to learn agentic coding

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I’m a big fan of Github Copilots ghost text and next edit suggestions. As a data analyst they give you much more control over the pace and direction of analysis code than a full AI agent. They also le...

June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

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Four hundred twelve new packages were submitted to CRAN in June. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Bioarchaeology, Biology, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology...

GPopt for R: Bayesian and conformal optimization of black-box functions and hyperparameter tuning

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GPopt for R: Bayesian and conformal optimization of black-box functions and hyperparameter tuning Continue reading: GPopt for R: Bayesian and conformal optimization of black-box functions and hyperpar...

Babe Ruth: How good was he? Mantle versus Ruth

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As a kid, my baseball hero was Mickey Mantle. In his 18-year Major League career, he amassed tremendous statistics, and surely he was one of the game's all-time greats. When Mantle retired, he was th...

New Frontier

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Remember the “AI rat penis” incident at Frontiers in Cell & Developmental Biology? Well, that was two and a half years ago. That’s enough water under the bridge to now check in and see how this incide...

controller: tidy messy terminology in R with controlled vocabularies

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controller is an R package for working with controlled vocabularies. It’s first release (v0.1.0) is now available now on CRAN. The package addresses something I find myself doing very often in analysi...

muttest 0.3.0: Turn surviving mutants into a to-do list

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HTML and JSON reporting, and smarter scoring for mutation testing in R. Continue reading: muttest 0.3.0: Turn surviving mutants into a to-do list

Little useless-useful R functions – Jug solver with Bezout’s Identity

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We all were presented with this problem – water jug problem, which – in the time of Football world cup 2026 – can be translated to any liquid. *hint hint* But the riddle is as logical as mathematical....

Level With Me: Can the WGI Predict the WJP’s Rule of Law Scores?

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TLDR: The first post established that the WGI and WJP rule of law measures agree on how they rank countries. […] The post Level With Me: Can the WGI Predict the WJP’s Rule of Law Scores? appeared firs...

A collection of self-starters for nonlinear regression in R

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Usually, the first step in every nonlinear regression analysis is to select the function that best describes the phenomenon under study. The next step is to fit this function to the observed data, pos...