19 March 2022 There’s some very interesting books in this update! Thansk to Nick Ulle, Jonathan Godfrey , @datum_wrangler and @jebyrnes for some of the the additions. If you’re looking for a new way to discover books from the collection, follow the Big Book of R Twitter bot. Every couple …
06 February 2022 Welcome to a very special edition of Big Book of R updates. For the past week, my kid has been asking to help me out with Big Book of R and created this amazing featured image. It’s an outer-space theme complete with a space-monkey (holding a banana) …
16 January 2022 UPDATE 28 January 2022: It seems one indeed does need to apply for Twitter Developer elevated API access to use the rtweet v1.1 endpoints. I’ve updated this post to reflect this. UPDATE 10th May 2022 Added the step on changing your app to read/write permissions and regenerating …
14 January 2022 We’re off to a great start (book wise!) for 2022. Here’s 10 new additions to Big Book of R. Quite a few more paid versions of books in this round and they look good. Thanks to Burak Aydin, Manika Lamba, Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda, Samrit Pramanik , Kurt …
With over 250 books (and counting) in the Big Book of R collection, you could easily overlook a lot of useful ones. Sometimes you see a book and think “Hey that’ll be pretty useful if I ever work on [subject]” but when that time comes you’ve completely forgotten about it. …
I love a lot about R except that its name is not great for SEO. When you’re very new to R it can be a bit hard to google solutions to your problems. In learning any new skill or tool it’s difficult to know what to google in the first …
13 December 2021 The R Community has been as active as ever on Twitter during 2021. Here’s a selection of the top 21 tweets of the year. Not on Twitter and don’t know where to start? Don’t worry! I co-authored the free book Twitter for R programmers with Veerle van …
06 December 2021 Every time I update Big Book of R I’m blown away by how much good stuff is out there! In this release there’s 9 new books which covers the widest range of topics of any release to date :). Thanks to Sivuyile Nzimeni for one of the …
30 November 2021 “Is the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate any good?” Whether you’re a job seeker looking to boost your career or a hiring manager eager to find skilled staff, this is a pertinent question. In this review, I assess the certificate based on the syllabus, and not the …
25 September 2021 Yes fellow R friends, the book list keeps growing nicely. Thank you very much to the contributors (both in submissions and for authoring these books!) : Colin Fay , Robert D. Brown III , William Becker and Tony Hirst JavaScript 4 Shiny – Field Notes by Colin …
