Upcoming Workshop: Data Analysis in R with the Tidyverse
Next week I’m teaching a three‑session, hands‑on introduction to data analysis in R using the tidyverse, hosted by Instats in partnership with the American Statistical Association. We’ll meet February 24–26, from 8–11am PT each day — three focused mornings designed to give participants a clear, modern workflow from raw data to publication‑ready results. I’ve taught […]
Choroplethr v4.0.0 is now on CRAN
choroplethr version 4.0.0 is now on CRAN. You can install it like this: With this version, I have transferred the maintenance of choroplethr to Zhaochen He, an economics professor at Christopher Newport University. Zhao addressed the issues that led to choroplethr being archived from CRAN in February. Please join me in thanking Zhao for his […]
Is CRAN Holding R Back?
Today the R package acs was “archived” from CRAN. This led to the choroplethr package (which I maintain) also being “archived”. I write “archived” in quotes because CRAN stands for “Comprehensive R Archive Network”: everything on it is part of an archive and it appears that nothing is ever deleted. You can still install both […]
Choroplethr is Scheduled to be Archived from CRAN
I was just notified by CRAN that choroplethr is scheduled to be archived on February 12. The reason is that choroplethr depends on the acs package, and the acs package is being archived. Apparently when a package is archived from CRAN, all packages which use it are also archived. I am not exactly sure what […]
Why I’m Switching to Polars
I recently decided to switch from Pandas to Polars for my Python projects that use dataframes. I came to this decision while taking a workshop on Polars last week: I found its syntax to be so intuitive that I couldn’t justify continuing to try to get “better” at Pandas, despite Pandas being the more established […]