blog – Måns Thulin

Why I don’t use {tidymodels}

R

Machine learning

Regression

tidymodels is a popular framework for regression, machine learning, and hypothesis testing. There’s been a lot of hype around it. There are courses focusing on tidymodels…

Creating {gt} frequency tables with {ivo.table}

R

Statistics

ivo.table version 0.7 is now available on CRAN. It adds support for creating gt tables, meaning that you can now create great-looking frequency tables and crosstables in the …

Bootstrap inference made easy: p-values and confidence intervals in one line of code

R

Statistics

Last month I attended the R/Medicine conference. In addition to listening to some great talks and having interesting conversations, I gave a talk of my own, on how to easily…

Creating a custom ggplot2 theme

R

Visualisation

Every year, I introduce hundreds of people to R, both in my live online courses and in university courses. In most of these, we use ggplot2, and invariably someone will…

Running bootstrap tests using {boot.pval}

R

Statistics

The boot package is one of the workhorses of the R statistics suite. Computing bootstrap confidence intervals is straightforward using its boot.ci function, but computing…

Base R equivalents of tidyverse verbs

R

Did you know that common tidyverse verbs like filter, select, and mutate have base R equivalents? In this post, I’ll show some examples of how many of the data wrangling…

Residual diagnostics made easy using {nullabor}

R

Statistics

Visualisation

When learning linear regression, many people struggle with model diagnostics - especially interpreting residual plots. We often teach that visual diagnostics are better than…

Visualising reading habits using {tidyplots}

R

Visualisation

The tidyplots package is a relatively new addition to the R ecosystem, designed to streamline the creation of publication-ready plots for scientific papers. Built on top of g…

Exporting factor analysis path diagrams to Mermaid

R

Statistics

Quarto

Visualisation

I’ve been playing around with making diagrams using Mermaid lately, and wanted to see if it was possible to easily export path diagrams for factor analysis models to Mermaid…

Easy frequency tables using {ivo.table}

R

Statistics

R has some great packages for creating nice-looking tables. Packages like gt and flextable allow the user to create a wide range of tables, with lots of flexibility in how…

New version of {boot.pval} on CRAN

R

Statistics

A new version of the boot.pval package is now available on CRAN. It can be used to compute bootstrap p-values and confidence intervals for regression coefficients with a…

Fitting TabPFN models in R using reticulate

R

Machine learning

TabPFN is a foundational model for tabular data, which can be used instead of models like XGBoost and random forest for predictive modelling using tabular data. It was…