I was recently discussing the analytic plan for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a clinical collaborator when she asked whether it’s appropriate to adjust for pre-specified baseline covariates. This question is…
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rOpenSci News Digest, January 2025
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ rOpenSci 2024…
R for SEO Part 9: Web Scraping With R & Rvest
[This article was first published on R | Ben Johnston, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on…
December 2024 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
Agriculture pacu v0.1.44: Provides support for a variety of commonly used precision data science agriculture operations, including functions to download and process raw satellite images from Sentinel-2, functions to download vegetation index…
Gradient-Boosting and Boostrap aggregating anything (alert: high performance): Part5, easier install and Rust backend
I recently released the genbooster Python package (usable from R), a Gradient-Boosting and Boostrap aggregating implementations that uses a Rust backend. Any base learner in the ensembles use randomized features as a…
B2B Website Performance: Key Metrics to Track
Any business owner will tell you that today, your website is your most valuable sales tool. It’s the hub of your online presence, working 24/7 to attract, engage and convert potential customers….
Decomposing within and between person effects in longitudinal data with SEM in R workshop
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Cpp11 pull requests to improve the integration of R and C++
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Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors
This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences…
A trip from variance-covariance to correlation and back
The variance-covariance and the correlation matrices are two entities that describe the association between the columns of a two-way data matrix. They are very much used, e.g., in agriculture, biology and ecology…