Reproducibility has long been a tenet of science but has been challenging to achieve—we learned this the hard way when our old approaches proved inadequate to efficiently reproduce our own work. Here ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. (Related posts: Introducing pewmethods: An R package for working with survey ...

R is hot. Whether measured by more than 10,000 add-on packages, the 95,000+ members of LinkedIn’s R group or the more than 400 R Meetup groups currently in existence, there can be little doubt that ...

The RNA-seq platform 1,2 addresses a multitude of applications, including relative expression analyses, alternative splicing, discovery of novel transcripts and isoforms, RNA editing, allele-specific ...

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...

Thanks to dwindling research budgets and the rising cost of science software, “open science” advocates may be succeeding at getting science to go open source. And it’s thanks in part to a little-known ...