I've started a new personal blog focused on research, career reflections, and travel experiences. The first post documents my recent 6-week trip through Southern Africa, from Zanzibar to Cape Town by Public Transport. FYI, enjoy!

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Version 0.3.0 of the {dfms} package for dynamic factor modelling in R just made it to CRAN, adding support for monthly + quarterly mixed frequency estimation. This allows for easy business cycle indicator estimation. More at sebkrantz.github.io/dfms/article... and sebkrantz.github.io/dfms/. #rstats

{collapse} 2.1.0 is out! It introduces a new fslice() function (sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/ref...), a new theory-consistent weighted quantile algorithm (sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/ref...) with excellent properties. And some convenience features such as join requirements: #rstats #DataScience

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The {collapse} (@rcollapse.bsky.social) arXiv paper has just been updated - following extensive revision: arxiv.org/abs/2403.05038. I believe it is a great resource for anyone doing scientific computing with #rstats.

It's nice to see an increasing number of #rstats packages use {collapse}. A developer focused vignette was long planned and now it is here - with modest advice on writing efficient R package code in general and using {collapse} in particular: sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/art...