Best of R — 2024

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   KDnuggets·2y

   Top Free Data Science Online Courses for 2024

   Discover top free data science online courses for 2024 and build skills in different aspects of data science, including programming with Python or R, statistics, data analytics, and machine learning.

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   DuckDB·2y

   Analyzing Open Government Data with duckplyr

   duckplyr is a high-performance, drop-in replacement for dplyr in R, powered by DuckDB. This post demonstrates how to use duckplyr to clean and analyze an open data set from New Zealand's government, showcasing the library's capabilities for efficient data wrangling and analysis. With enhanced CSV parsing and holistic optimization, duckplyr ensures faster and more ergonomic handling of large datasets compared to dplyr.

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   R-bloggers·2y

   📦 {alone} v0.5 is now available

   The {alone} package v0.5 is now available, featuring new subtitle and description fields for episodes. This release includes data from Alone Season 11, which is now ready for analysis. Notably, Season 11 is tied with Season 6 as the second highest-rated season on IMDb, while Season 7 remains the highest-rated. Three participants survived over 80 days in Season 11, similar to Season 7.

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   Towards Dev·2y

   R: Quarto PDF template — With a cover page before the table of content!

   Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc, supporting multiple programming languages including R, Python, and LaTeX. It enhances the capabilities of R Markdown, offering improved reproducibility, collaboration, and publication features. The post provides a guide to creating a PDF document with a cover page and table of contents using Quarto and LaTeX.

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