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Day 99-100: Small Steps
Sometime back in late April I made a strange decision to try to learn a new R package every day for 100 days. The goal was transparently ridiculous, and even at the time I was aware there was no way I could do it. Of course “a package every day” was never the primary goal. What I’d really hoped to do is get into the habit of trying out new R packages, just for my own curiosity.
Day 95-98: Press any key
I’m getting to the very end of this package tryout exercise, and I suspect this will be the last post (other than perhaps a wrap up on Friday). It’s been a mildly annoying morning: I’ve done something to my foot, I’ve been awake since 4am, and somehow my twitter feed was full of people talking about Jordan Peterson 😒 Sigh. I probably should have just blocked or muted everyone talking about him rather than engage, but what’s done is done and I’d like to enjoy the rest of my morning.
Day 82-94: Idle thoughts on my workflow
My setup is a weird mix of things that only makes sense in context
Day 67-81: Dragon taming, Rcpp edition
After being inspired by recent conferences, I feel brave enough to face one of my deepest fears and learn how to write compiled C++ code for R using the Rcpp package. It isn’t as scary as I thought it would be
Day 63-66: Learning to skim
I seem to be the last person to the party on the skimr package. For folks like myself who have been living under a rock, it’s a tidyverse style package developed by some awesome rOpenSci people, intended to provide tools for summarising (or ‘skimming’) data sets in a quick and simple way. A lot of thought has gone into it - not only is it easy to use, it has very sensible default behaviour and is flexible and not difficulty to modify. It is fun!
