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The R consultancy says what settled its retreat was code arriving faster than the team could read it. Its own decision record lists two other reasons that would have moved the project anyway.
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The author of free range statistics resampled heavily skewed distributions and reports that a bias-corrected bootstrap holds more of its promised 95% coverage than the interval taught in intro courses, with both still short of 95%.
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A study accepted for presentation at the osQF 2026 conference builds an options pricing measure out of one price history, using an AR(1) fit, a block bootstrap and a single no-arbitrage correction. The test is one day of DAX quotes.
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The R package {css2r} takes a URL, reads the site's stylesheets and hands back a bslib theme in seconds. On its authors' own homepage the theme came back with a dark slate grey as primary, because that hex code appears 133 times.
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No official O*NET-SOC to ANZSCO correspondence exists. The one just published chains three many-to-many joins, and its author says the European Commission's method is probably better.
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shinyapps.io stops taking new apps at the end of 2026 and existing content is moved automatically in early 2027. Deployment pipelines built for it need editing before then.
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A Bioconductor design proposal asks package authors to declare batch jobs as GA4GH TES tasks in two files. The wrapper stops drifting. The code that projects it is still somebody else's problem.
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