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New Value: increasing cost of UKRI research grants
A chance comment from a colleague led to today’s post. Competition for research grants in the UK has become more intense recently. Success rates have dropped, and this has been attributed to more applications, against a backdrop of a flat investment in science by the government. My colleague thought … Continue reading: New Value: increasing […]
maestro reaches stable release
maestro has officially graduated to stable release with version 1.0.0 back in January 2026 and now its latest version 1.1.0. This marks a commitment to maintaining a stable API and increased reliance on using maestro in production. In our e… Continue reading: maestro reaches stable release
New York City Hexmaps
The five boroughs of New York City can be informally or formally carved up into many different pieces, depending on what it is that you’re doing. As part of an ongoing project, I recently made an R package, nycmaps, that lets you draw maps of som… Continue reading: New York City Hexmaps
Analyzing Ecological Data with Detection Error
This course is for researchers who analyze field observations. These data are often inconsistent because sampling protocols can change across projects, over time, or when older data are combined with new recordings. Continue reading: Analyzing Ecological Data with Detection Error
Fun pictures with ggplot2 and scico packages
This wonderful post from Jonathan Caroll give me idea to play with ggplot2 code and scico color palettes: Also see this toot from Stefan Siegert, inspiring! I took the code from the toot mentioned above, modified it, and used it to have a littl… Continue reading: Fun pictures with ggplot2 and scico packages
[R] How to modify the theme used by blogdown?
Zhenguo Zhang's Blog /2026/04/18/r-how-to-modify-the-theme-used-by-blogdown/ -My website is built using blogdown and published on Netlify via CI/CD. Recently, I updated my Hugo version from 0.92 to 0.154.2. Unfortunately, this update broke the deployme… Continue reading: [R] How to modify the theme used by blogdown?
Schotter Plots in R
Translating things between languages reveals how each language approaches different design trade-offs, and I believe it’s a useful exercise. Having something to translate is the first step. I found a plot I wanted to generate, and some code that reproduced it, so off we go! I don’t recall … Continue reading: Schotter Plots in R
What’s new in R 4.6.0?
R 4.6.0 (“Because it was There”) is set for release on April 24th 2026. Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced. In previous blog posts, we have discussed the new features introduced in R 4.5.0 and earlier versions (see the links at the end of this post). … Continue […]
My Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDs
I wanted to know: After a little bit of searching, I couldn’t find any answers. So I decided to use R to retrieve the necessary info from Uniprot and calculate it myself. I thought I’d post it here in case it’s useful for others. Human We’ll … Continue reading: My Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDs
Stage II OSCC — Health Economics Model
Most health care economics models are constructed from the perspective of a managed health care system such as those offered in Canada and several European countries, or from the perspective of some other third party such as an insurance company… Continue reading: Stage II OSCC — Health Economics Model

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.”