Big Book of R

#1

Post by sebg » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

Re: Big Book of R

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Post by madcaptenor » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 5:52 PM UTC

I've made some half-hearted attempts to build something like this and I'm glad to see someone tried harder than I did. Thanks!

One comment: it would be good to distinguish between books that are free and books that you have to pay for.

Re: Big Book of R

#3

Post by wpollock » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 6:01 PM UTC

Very nice, but instead of an owl, shouldn't the cover illustration be a pirate?

Re: Big Book of R

#4

Post by oscarbaruffa » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

madcaptenor wrote: post #2

I've made some half-hearted attempts to build something like this and I'm glad to see someone tried harder than I did. Thanks! One comment: it would be good to distinguish between books that are free and books that you have to pay for.

Thanks! Paid books do note (above the link) that they're paid but I agree, a better visual might help. I'm thinking of removing the paid books where many free alternatives are available

Re: Big Book of R

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Post by oscarbaruffa » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

wpollock wrote: post #3

Very nice, but instead of an owl, shouldn't the cover illustration be a pirate?

Ah, good one ;). Maybe in future I'll change it

Re: Big Book of R

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Post by LostMyLogin » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 6:25 PM UTC

Not to be confused with The Book of R: https://www.amazon.com/Book-First-Course-Programming-Statist...

Re: Big Book of R

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Post by thangalin » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 6:51 PM UTC

Tangentially, R can help produce living Markdown documents (.Rmd files). A couple of ways include pandoc with knitr[0] or my FOSS text editor, KeenWrite[1]. I've kept the R syntax in KeenWrite compatible with knitr. Living documents as part of a build process can produce PDFs that are always up-to-date with respect to external data sources[2], which includes source code.

[0]: https://yihui.org/knitr/

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

[2]: https://youtu.be/XSbTF3E5p7Q?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9KWzP...

Re: Big Book of R

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Post by juujian » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 7:12 PM UTC

thangalin wrote: post #7

Tangentially, R can help produce living Markdown documents (.Rmd files). A couple of ways include pandoc with knitr[0] or my FOSS text editor, KeenWrite[1]. I've kept the R syntax in KeenWrite compatible with knitr. Living documents as part of a build process can produce PDFs that are always up-to-date with respect to external data sources[2], which includes source code. [0]: https://yihui.org/knitr/ [1]: https://kee…

Last time I was working on something complex, I was able to knit from Rmd to md, and then use my usual pandoc defaults, which was quite neat. Big recommendation on that workflow.

Re: Big Book of R

#9

Post by kingkongjaffa » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 7:15 PM UTC

What is the best way to integrate some R code with a python backend?

I’ve been tempted to port to python, but some of the stats libraries have no good counterparts, so, is there a ergonomic way to do this?

Re: Big Book of R

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Post by jmalicki » Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 7:17 PM UTC

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #9

What is the best way to integrate some R code with a python backend? I’ve been tempted to port to python, but some of the stats libraries have no good counterparts, so, is there a ergonomic way to do this?

Do you dislike rpy? I've found it to be pretty easy to use.