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Bioconductor submissions

Exploring the submission process to Bioconductor. What happens, how long does it take, what are the common problems and solutions for new contributors.

R quarantine house

Checking quarantine environments

Covid-19

Several important numbers about the COVID19 and the impact on the Spanish healthcare

R weekly new editor

Checking who can be Rweekly.org editor with R

CRAN dependencies

New policy in CRAN With the new policy of a maximum of 20 packages in Imports. Let’s see how many dependencies has each package on CRAN and Bioconductor:

Debugging only when needed

One of the worst thing I experienced is having a bug in a nested call of functions. If it is not simple the problems comes to isolate when and why does it occur.

Fast correlations

Correlations One of the few methods that are commonly done are correlations. I found several implementations of Pearson correlations, and I was curious to know if which is the fastest one.

Christmas tree

So it is Christmas and I want a tree. I found this new package experimental ggfx and I thought it would be nice to use it for the lights.

Models

Introduction I have learned a lot about linear models through carefully reading limma’s vignette. However from time to time I find that I cannnot do the model of the effects as I wish to compare the samples as I need.

PII fines

From some time I’ve been following a company that uses data to explain some data. I want to use some of the data they published from Civio to see if I learn more about personal identifiable information fines.