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You may have heard of ROC curves, but what exactly are they?

Learn the the basics of ROC curves using simple #RStats code and intuitive explanations.

"ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code": rworks.dev/posts/Horton...
ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code – R Works
This post explains the basics of ROC curves using simple code and intuitive explanations.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I wrote a lil post on the amazing work that
@ginareynolds.bsky.social does championing ggplot2 extension developers and teaching others to build their own!

The post features the Scrollytelling Quarto extension and the group's cute #RStats hex 🐱:

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An Introduction to Writing Your Own ggplot2 Geoms – R Works
The ggextenders club provides inspiration and resources for those venturing into the exciting world of creating custom ggplot2 extensions.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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It's time for the Top 40 New #RStats Packages on CRAN for September 2025!

Learn about new packages for data, statistics, finance, and more. These great packages come complete with great documentation, images, references.

Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/septem...
September 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
Here are my picks of the best of the two hundred forty new packages that landed on CRAN in September, organized into thirteen categories: Computational Methods, Data, Decision Analysis, Ecology, Epide...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Be Mindful of the Time: Estimating a Continuous-Time Markov Chain from Incomplete Data

In his latest post, @revojoe.bsky.social shows how data can implicitly define time scales and why that matters when modeling real-world processes. #RStats

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Be Mindful of the Time – R Works
In a previous post, A Simple Bayesian Multi-state Survival Model for a Clinical Trial, I described a textbook example comparing the effectiveness of asthma treatments by fitting a discrete-time Markov...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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August 2025's Top 40 picks are out, highlighting excellent #RStats packages from Differential Privacy to Toxicology to Causal Inference.

This marks 1 year of Top 40 posts since we started R Works! 🎉

Check out the post here: rworks.dev/posts/august...
August 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
Here are my picks for the best from the ninety-seven new packages that landed on CRAN in August, organized in eighteen categories: Causal Inference, Data, Differential Privacy, Ecology, Environmental ...
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September 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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A Note on the Dirichlet Distribution by @revojoe.bsky.social

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A Note on the Dirichlet Distribution – R Works
In this post, I explore some properties of the Dirichlet distribution and illustrate the behavior of the symmetric Dirichlet distribution as alpha, the concentration parameter, varies. Understanding t...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The July 2025 Top 40 New CRAN #RStats Packages blog post is now out!

Check out great picks from @revojoe.bsky.social in 13 categories, including Causal Inference, Ecology, Mathematics, Medical Statistics, Pharma, Statistics, and Visualization.

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July 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
The CRAN new package Top 40 - Here are my picks for the best new packages to land on CRAN in July, organized in thirteen categories: Causal Inference, Computational Methods, Data, Ecology, Epidemiolog...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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On the R Works blog, @ivelasq3.bsky.social shares a short blog post on getting started with the ANES 2024 data in #RStats!

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ANES 2024 is Out! How to Analyze the Data with R – R Works
Explore the newly released ANES 2024 survey data in R with {survey} and {srvyr}.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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This month's Top 40 New CRAN packages includes ... some really awesome visualizations!

Check out @revojoe.bsky.social's picks in 21 categories, including AI, chess, epidemiology, music theory, and more.

Blog post: rworks.dev/posts/june-2...

#RStats
Fractal forest with height on the y-axis
August 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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In our latest post, Vidisha Vachharajani discusses the fundamental driver of successful AI agent use: prompting, or instructing an #LLM to perform a task with input text.

See how to go from vague directions to specific #RStats guidance in #RStudio using GitHub Copilot.

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Health Technology notes: Copilot tips and guidance – R Works
In this post, we walk the reader through the fundamental driver of successfully using AI agents – prompting. Prompting is the method of instructing an LLM to perform a task by carefully designing an i...
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July 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Vidisha Vachharajani continues the "Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics" series!

Part 2 evaluates the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and impact of patient-level variables on downstream outcomes while exploring the #RStats + AI!

Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/health...
Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics – Part 2 – R Works
In this second installment, we analyze a complex dataset of diabetes patient encounters with 100,000+ rows and over 50 columns and dive deeper to evaluate the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and ...
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July 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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May was a big month for #RStats! 186 new packages landed on CRAN.

We've got the top 40 highlighted on R Works, featuring an image from the GencoDymo2 package (human and mouse genomes!).

Check it out here: rworks.dev/posts/may-20...
May 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN. - One Hundred seventy-six new packages made it to CRAN in May. Here are my Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Climate Science, Comp...
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June 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Markov Chains can model patient outcomes. This post walks through calculating transition probabilities and using absorbing states to estimate long-term health outcomes in #RStats.

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A Simple Bayesian Multi-state Survival Model for a Clinical Trial – R Works
This post shows how to use the elementary theory of discrete time Markov Chains to construct a multi-state model of patients progressing through various health states in a randomized clinical trial co...
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June 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Using GitHub Copilot to analyze complex healthcare datasets comes with opportunities and challenges.

Vidisha Vachharajani walks through an example and shares reflections in our latest blog post: rworks.dev/posts/health...

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Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics – Part 1 – R Works
In this post, the first in a series of two focused on healthcare applications, I will introduce a complex healthcare data set and outline the problems I propose to solve using tidyverse and GitHub Cop...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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We're delighted by the depth and breadth of #RStats packages released in CRAN!

@revojoe.bsky.social shares April's Top 40 picks, including Olajoke Oladipo's cheetahR for super-fast table gen and Russ Conte's ClassificationEnsembles for building classification models.

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April 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-two categories: Archaeology, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Chemistry, Climate Science, Data, E...
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May 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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In a previous post, we presented an #RStats rjags version of a Bayesian model from Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare by Welton et al.

This second post explores cost-effectiveness frameworks in healthcare using deterministic and stochastic models.

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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis – R Works
In a previous post, we presented an rjags version of a Bayesian model from the textbook: Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare by Welton et al. (2012). This post continues the work of p...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Thanks for the shoutout, @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com!
May 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Thinking about using VS Code for integrating both #RStats and #Python in your code?

John Mark Agosta shares some considerations in our latest blog post: rworks.dev/posts/r-pyth...
A Data Scientist’s View of Running R in Visual Studio Code – R Works
VS Code is a popular, customizable coding environment excellent for working with multiple languages. As a data scientist, its R <-> Python integration deserves careful consideration.
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May 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Thank you for the shout out on the R Weekly podcast ❤️

@rpodcast.bsky.social and @mike-thomas.bsky.social are always a great listen, and appreciate you @batoolmm.bsky.social for highlighting the Top 40 Packages post!

Check out the other great highlights this week: rweekly.org

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May 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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In March, 182 new packages made it to CRAN.

Here are @revojoe.bsky.social's Top 40 picks in 16 categories, including agriculture, archaeology, biology, epidemiology, and more!

rworks.dev/posts/march-...

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March 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN: here are my Top 40 picks in sixteen categories: Agriculture, Archaeology, Biology, Climate Modeling, Computational Methods, Data, Eco...
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April 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Fall down an ARIMA model rabbit hole with @revojoe.bsky.social and explore a time series where forecast::auto.arima() and fable::ARIMA() chose very different models but gave nearly identical forecasts.

A good case study in identifiability! #RStats

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Down a Rabbit Hole with ARIMA Models – R Works
This post describes a chance encounter with a time series data set for which the forecast and fable packages found different ARIMA models that don’t look much alike, but produce surprisingly close for...
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April 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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In February, one hundred fifty-nine new #RStats packages made it to CRAN.

Check out @revojoe.bsky.social's top picks, including two in a new category, "Weather"!

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February 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
An attempt to capture the depth and breadth of what’s new on CRAN: Here are my Top 40 picks in fifteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, Genomics, Health Sciences, M...
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March 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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How many ways can you color a 2x2 grid of squares?

Vidisha Vachharajani walks through a simplified version of the four color theorem: You paint each square one of four colors, but no two adjacent squares have the same color.

Check out the solution, done with #RStats!

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How Many Ways to Color This Grid: Teaching Combinatorics Using R – R Works
A simplified version of the four color theorem: suppose you have a 2x2 grid of squares, and you need to paint each square one of four colors: red, blue, green, or yellow. The restriction is that no tw...
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March 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare is an exemplary presentation of healthcare decision analysis and Bayesian modeling.

In this blog post, we present a JAGS version of a WinBugs model from the book using the jagsUI and rjags #RStats packages: rworks.dev/posts/eviden...
Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare – R Works
This post presents a JAGS version of a WinBUGS model presented in the classic textbook Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare by Nicky J. Welton, Alexander J. Sutton, Nicola J. Cooper, K...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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It's Friday, which means it's time for an #RStats puzzle!

Can you arrange the digits 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 in such order that they form a number that may be divided by every number from 2 to 18 without a remainder?

Nina Zumel walks through it in "Digital Difficulties" 🔢

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Digital Difficulties – R Works
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March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM