With great power comes not only great responsibility, but often great complexity — and that sure can be the case with R. The open-source R Project for Statistical Computing, a programming language and ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable if ...

The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has hosted a four-day workshop, “Statistics for Ecology, Genetics and Genomics Using R” that advanced the participants’ understanding of the role of statistical ...

In studies on HSCT Kaplan–Meier (KM) estimates of survival curves and Cox proportional hazard models are widely used to describe survival trends and identify significant prognostic factors. All these ...

John Spray describes an experience of building high performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime, and explores the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture.

Make your R data.table code more efficient and elegant with these special symbols and operators. Plus, learn about the new fcase() function R data.table code becomes more efficient — and elegant — ...

See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package. R has a number of quick, elegant ways to join data ...