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- The North American Bioconductor Conference 2026 (([BioC2026])(https://bioc2026.bioconductor.org/)) took place from August 10-12, 2026, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington. The conference brought together researchers, dev… Continue reading: BioC2026 conference recap
- You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: My first attempt at porting a Shiny app failed, and not for a technical reason Diary of a rewrite, episode 2 of 4. Translating your code line by line is the surest way to get it … Continue reading: […]
- Read it in: Español. rOpenSci turns 15 and I’ve been a part of this community for a good chunk of that time. As I reflected on those years, a lot of great memories came to mind, and I realized some of them taught me some lessons that I would … Continue reading: Celebrating the rOpenSci […]
- Three hundred twenty-nine new packages were submitted to CRAN in July. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learni… Continue reading: August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
- In 2019 I wrote a post with seven reasons policy professionals should learn to code. Now that AI can write reasonable code, I’ve had a number of people ask me if it’s still worth learning to program. Based on the evidence I’ve seen, AI appears to be a … Continue reading: X Reasons for policy […]
- 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 Yani and Mark at “Open Communities in the age of AI” rO… Continue reading: rOpenSci News Digest, September 2026
- I wanted to add a small “Ask AI” window to this website. Visitors should be able to ask about my projects, publications or background and get a short answer with a useful link. Running it should cost nothing. I described my website setup to ChatGPT, fo… Continue reading: Adding a free AI chatbot to a […]
- This is a guest post by Matt Denwood. After a longer-than-anticipated delay, the macOS installer for JAGS 5.0.0 is now available via SourceForge. There are some big changes for how the official binaries of JAGS 5.x are installed on macOS, … Continue reading → Continue reading: JAGS 5.0.0 is now available for macOS
- I had a lot of fun this morning, brainstorming and assembling this _Analytics Pipeline_ for Dashboards with Claude (and yes it takes much, much more than only 10 prompts). Continue reading: Analytics Pipeline for Dashboards, with Python, R and Javascript
- There are ten public training courses left in 2026, running through October and November. If you’ve been meaning to learn Python, build your first Shiny app, or get to grips with machine learning in R, there’s still time to do it befo… Continue reading: Autumn 2026 Data Science Training Courses
The 8 Best R Programming Books in 2022
New course aims to train next generation of data scientists
“Ogihara and Bonnell chose to use R because it is attuned to statistical analysis and, by incorporating an increasingly popular collection of tools in R called tidyverse, students can easily learn how to process, wrangle, transform, and model data on their own, too.”
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How to do R-like data manipulations using Pandas?
R and Python play a crucial role in handling and manipulating the data. Many beginners find it difficult to shift from Python to R or vice-versa in such requirements. This will help the beginners to understand the differences and also help them switch in between.
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