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R Works @rworks.bsky.social · 9d

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 ...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · 16d

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Aug 21

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}.

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

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Fractal forest with height on the y-axis

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

rworks.dev/posts/health...

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Jul 23

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 ...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Jun 30

Well deserved! 👏

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Jun 25

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Jun 4

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · May 29

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.

rworks.dev/posts/april-...

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · May 20

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.

rworks.dev/posts/ESDM-2/

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · May 9

Thanks for the shoutout, @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com!

Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · May 9

this week in #rstats 🔥

- new RStudio release 🆕 @posit.co
- upcoming Quarto Scrollytelling meetup 📖 @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
- new Gemini 2.5 Pro vs R coding 🤖 @simonpcouch.com
- VSCode for R+Python dev ⚖️ @rworks.bsky.social

and more 🎉

#news #datascience

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This week in R (2025-05-09)

A new version of the most popular IDE; more LLM benchmarking with {vitals}; a look at VSCode for R+Python development; learn about Scrollytelling; and more!

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R Works @rworks.bsky.social · May 8

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.

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · May 8

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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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · May 7

Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social
➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

Issue 2025-W19 Highlights

Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidymodels suite,…

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R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Apr 30

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-...

#RStats

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

rworks.dev/posts/arima-...

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Mar 31

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"!

rworks.dev/posts/februa...

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Mar 21

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!

rworks.dev/posts/math-p...

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Mar 17

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...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Mar 14

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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Rami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social · Mar 12

I am excited to present this Thursday, March 13, at the Bay Area useR meetup about analyzing time series data at scale with cluster analysis methods.

Mariana Menchero, the author of the nixtlar R library from Nixtla, will present about forecasting foundation models using TimeGPT 🚀!

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R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Mar 10

Interested in Bayesian Meta-Analysis with the brms package?

Learn how to formulate complex Bayesian models without writing any stan code: rworks.dev/posts/bma-wi...

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Bayesian Meta-Analysis with brms – R Works

In our previous post, Examining Meta Analysis, we contrasted a frequentist version of a meta analysis conducted with R’s meta package with a Bayesian meta analysis done mostly in stan using therstan p...

R Works @rworks.bsky.social · Mar 7

Very well deserved!

Check out @liomys.mx's forgts package for converting formatted spreadsheets to presentation-ready display gt #RStats tables!

luisdva.github.io/forgts/