The {mrup} #rstats 📦 is an “RStudio addin for searching for all local projects and editing the most recently used project list.
“Easily open any previous project. Add projects to, or remove projects from, the recent project drop-down menu.” By John Wilson, teaching fellow at Edinburgh University https://github.com/jmcvw/mrup #RStudio@rstats
If you are somewhere between disillusioned & enraged with the direction that StackOverflow has taken, but like me you still periodically have the “answer programming questions on the internet" itch, here's a small suggestion that I’ve found rewarding.
Follow the GitHub issues of an open source project you use a lot. I 💯 guarantee you that they periodically get issues that are just confused users asking for help, or “bug reports” that are just a simple misunderstanding of the tool…
📣 I launched my first newsletter! It's free and I'll be using it to send a little email note any time I publish a blog post, publication, talk, or project on my #quarto site.
When writing guides and documentation, I always try to write what I would have liked to have read, so here is a guide on how to contribute to #Nix from the perspective of an #RStats user:
(1/4) TIL about the plotnine library- the grammar of graphics in Python 🚀
I had never heard about the Plotnine library until I came across the Posit Plotnine contest (see the link below). The plotnine is a Python implementation of a grammar of graphics based on the ggplot2 library.
For #API client packages, I want to make sure args are in the form the API expects. Other packages ({checkmate}, {vctrs}) didn't QUITE do what I want, so I https://xkcd.com/927/ 'ed it and made my own!
There's still a lot missing, and I'll likely tweak the errors to make things clearer, but it was done-enough to put it into the world. Enjoy!
For model calibration (esp via logistic regression), does anyone know of a statistical investigation of the properties of the resulting calibrated predictions?
IOW, if we use predictions from one model as inputs to another model, do we know the probability distribution of the final predictions?
Learn how to handle rows in R containing specific strings using base R's grep() and dplyr's filter() with str_detect(). Select or drop rows efficiently and enhance your data manipulation skills. Give it a try with your datasets for better data cleaning and organization.
I just published a very basic introduction to using Boston's #Bluebikes bikeshare system data in #RStats. IMHO this is a great, underutilized dataset and is especially well-suited for student projects!
It would enable the relatively easy creation of serious games and interactive exercises to learn R or statistics (or with the {rock} package, qualitative research); combining R with a simple game/adventure engine.
I've always wanted to try to get axis text directly on my plots like I've seen in the New York Times and other places. Finally figured it out with the help of the {ggh4x} package. Code here: https://rfor.us/axistext#rstats
The April 2024 release of Posit Package Manager brings support for air-gapped PyPI repositories, more flexible curated CRAN repositories, performance improvements and more!
We're very excited to be hosting three reading groups at eCOTS over the next few weeks, and we'll be introducing them this week!
The first reading group is on the topic of "What do students learn from simulations in statistics?" and is facilitated by Andrew Pua, and will be happening May 21 10pm BST / 5pm EDT / May 22 5am Philippine Standard Time