A few years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can ...

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package ...

Before you can analyze and visualize data, you have to get that data into R. There are various ways to do this, depending on how your data is formatted and where it’s located. Usually, the function ...

In today's data-driven world, statistical analysis plays a critical role in uncovering insights, validating hypotheses, and driving decision-making across industries. R, a powerful programming ...

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R is a free and powerful statistical software package that is capable of advanced statistical analysis. Since R requires the user to write computer code to execute ...

Before you start analyzing, you might want to take a look at your data object’s structure and a few row entries. If it’s a 2-dimensional table of data stored in an R data frame object with rows and ...

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 ...

For years, geneticist Helene Royo used commercial software to analyse her work. She would extract DNA from the developing sperm cells of mice, send it for analysis and then fire up a package called ...