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wbstats is back on CRAN

R

CRAN

International Trade

Search and download data from the World Bank Data API.

How much can President Trump’s Tariffs Impact Canadian Households?

R

C++

SQL

International Trade

An exploratory analysis of the potential effects of President Trump’s tariffs on Canadian households using simple plots and percentages.

The ‘Tanakh’ R package

R

Non-English datasets

An R package for accessing the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) with English and Hebrew text.

Forced Disappearances in Chile (1973-1989)

R

ggplot2

Lest we forget.

Creating a simple R package with C++ code to sum “x + 1”

R

C++

cpp11

R Packages

A tutorial on creating a simple R package that includes C++ code for a basic operation (video).

Installing RStudio and Positron on Manjaro Linux

R

Linux

Rstudio

Manjaro

Positron

Installers to keep track of the RStudio and Positron installation on Manjaro Linux.

Step-by-Step Guide to Use RSelenium with Firefox (Linux and Windows)

R

Selenium

Using RSelenium and Firefox to organize hundreds of HTML sections into one table.

Step-by-Step Guide to Use R and Selenium on Windows

R

Selenium

Using R, selenium and purrr to organize hundreds of HTML sections into one table.

Sending plain text emails when communicating with CRAN

R

CRAN

Switch your email client to plain text mode before sending technical questions to CRAN and/or R mailing lists.

Do you need a custom R package or Shiny dashboard for your team?

R

C++

Shiny

SQL

I build production-ready R tools that solve business problems.

Efficiently merging multiple datasets

R

Tidyverse

Using purrr to avoid repeating code.

Plotting with ukmaps v0.0.4 and ggplot2

R

ggplot2

This is the first proper version of UK Maps.

How to import Zotero files and convert the data into a bibliographic class

R

Zotero

BibTeX

Questions

Answering reader’s questions.

How do you make a histogram with equally sized dots or squares for each observation, and colour them by another variable

R

ggplot2

Answering reader’s questions.

Plotting UK Maps with ggplot2 (Part 2)

R

ggplot2

Ukmaps is growing and will become a “real” R package.

How to learn C++ as an R user

R

C++

Questions

Answering reader’s questions.

Capybara v1.8.0 is now available on CRAN

R

Statistics

Linear models

C++

Comparison with Alpaca and Fixest.

Plotting UK Maps with ggplot2

R

ggplot2

Super early stage work but it will improve.

A Personal Message from an Open Source Contributor

R

Shiny

C++

Dear fellow developers and data scientists…

Reading conditional formatting in XLSX files in a Tidy way with readxl

R

Microsoft Excel

Spreadsheets

Data organization issues derived from not using the tools correctly and its solution.

Send Me Your Questions and Ideas

R

Shiny

C++

I’m always looking for ways to make this blog more useful for the R, Shiny, and C++ community.

Reading the background colour of an XLSX file in a Tidy way with readxl

R

Microsoft Excel

Spreadsheets

Data organization issues derived from not using the tools correctly and its solution.

Deploying a Golem Shiny App to ShinyApps.io

R

Shiny

How I had to troubleshoot some issues.

Replicating Hansen’s Econometrics using Armadillo

R

Statistics

Linear algebra

Linear models

C++

Armadillo

The goal of the ‘hansen’ R package is to provide the datasets used in the exercises of the book Econometrics by Bruce E. Hansen following the Tidy Data principles.

A Shiny app to visualize the Edgeworth box

R

Shiny

ggplot2

Education

Edgeworth box with contract curve for the 2x2 exchange model using Cobb-Douglas utility functions.