Author: R Views

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,...continue reading.

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...continue reading.

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...continue reading.

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...continue reading.

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...continue reading.

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...continue reading.

Two hundred twenty new packages stuck to CRAN in September. Here are my “Top 40” picks in fourteen categories: Art, Computational Methods, Data, Econometrics, Finance and Insurance, Genomics, Machine Learning,...continue reading.

This post by Emily Riederer is the winning entry in our recent Call for Documentation contest. Emily is a Senior Analytics Manager at Capital One where she leads a team...continue reading.

An elegant application of Functional Data Analysis is to model longitudinal data as a curve and then study the curve’s dynamics. For example, in pharmacokinetics and other medical studies analyzing...continue reading.

One hundred sixty new packages covering a wide array of topics made it to CRAN in August. I thought I would emphasize the breadth of topics by expanding the number...continue reading.

R / Medicine is a big deal. This year, the conference grew by 13% with 665 people from over 60 countries signing up for the virtual event which was held...continue reading.

One hundred eighty-three new packages stuck to CRAN in July. Here are my “Top 40” picks in eleven categories: Data, Ecology, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, Science, Statistics, Time Series,...continue reading.

R/Medicine 2021, the premier conference for the use of R in clinical applications is less than two weeks away! This conference reflects the increasing importance of data science, computational statistics...continue reading.

We at R Views believe that the R ecosystem, centered around CRAN and Bioconductor, is the world’s largest open repository of statistical knowledge. R packages provide implementations and examples for...continue reading.

One hundred ninety-seven new packages made it to CRAN in June. Here are my selections for the “Top 40” in ten categories: Computational Methods, Data, Finance, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine,...continue reading.

I have written about the basics of Functional Data Analysis in three prior posts. In Post 1, I used the fda package to introduce the fundamental concept of using basis...continue reading.

Two hundred five packages made it to CRAN in May, but seven were removed before this post went to print. Here are my “Top40” picks in ten categories: Computational Methods,...continue reading.

Summer is here, but it is not too late sign up for some summer conferences. The following short list promises interesting speakers, a wide range of topics and plenty of...continue reading.

In two previous posts, Introduction to Functional Data Analysis with R and Basic FDA Descriptive Statistics with R, I began looking into FDA from a beginners perspective. In this post,...continue reading.

The COVID19 pandemic has raised the profile of public health workers at all levels from the nurses and doctors working on the front lines at our hospitals, to high level...continue reading.