Solving #AdventOfCode day 3 and 4 with R
Solving the puzzles of Advent of Code with
R.
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Solving #AdventOfCode day 1 and 2 with R
Solving the first four puzzles of Advent of
Code with R.
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RConsortium — Building an R Certification
For the last months, ThinkR has been involved (with Mango, Procogia and the Linux Foundation) in a working group for an RConsortium R Certification.
Why this Working Group (WG)?
No doubt the demand for R (and for Data Science) has been increasing over the past few years — Data Scientist … Continue reading
A Tale of Two Shiny Apps: Google Auth & ShinyProxy
Once upon a time, there was a team of fearless R knights who started a new quest: they were missioned to bring the almighty Google Auth into the wonderful world of ShinyProxy. Here is their story, told from the inside.
In the beginning, there was a container
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Why do we use arrow as an assignment operator?
A Twitter
Thread turned
into a blog post.
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Playing around with RStudio Package Manager
Managing packages in production is a lot of work: you have to juggle between versions, internal packages, CRAN updates, Bioconductor, GitHub sources… Let’s have a look into RStudio Package Manager, one of the tools available that helps you dealing with this.
What is love RSPM (Baby don’t … Continue reading
Remaking ‘Luminance-gradient-dependent lightness illusion’ with R
A blogpost inspired by a tweet and a YouTube video.
‘Luminance-gradient-dependent lightness illusion’
In the last days, I’ve stumbled upon this tweet:
A demo of lightness perception pic.twitter.com/BSVpgcuIw1
— Akiyoshi Kitaoka (@AkiyoshiKitaoka) August 12, 2018
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Wrangling Wikileaks DMs
Using R to turn raw data into browsable and reusable content.
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About lazy evaluation
A follow-up on Thomas Lumley follow-up
post
on Miles McBain post about
quotation.
In this post, Thomas is continuing Miles exploration of the concept of
quoting and evaluation in R. Thomas speaks a little bit about lazy
evaluation, and I decided to continue to explore this concept. Notably I
wish … Continue reading
A quick #WorldEmojiDay exploration
Let’s celebrate #WorldEmojiDay with a quick exploration of my own
twitter account.
The ?
We’ll need:
From Github
{emo}
remote::install_github("hadley/emo")
From CRAN
{dplyr}
{tidyr}
{rtweet}
{tidytext}
Note: This page has been created at:
Sys.time()
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[Web2Day] Producing web content with R
Earlier this week, my talk at the Web2Day
conference was put online. Here is an english summary for those who
don’t understand french :)
Disclaimer: this talk has been given during a conference about web
technologies. In other word,in front of a crowd that has never /
hardly heard about R … Continue reading
[ggplot2] Welcome viridis !
Let’s welcome the viridis palette into the new version of {ggplot2}!
Viri-what ?
viridis is one of the favorite color palettes of one of the member of the team (guesswho).
The viridis palette was first developed for the python package matplotlib, and has been implemented in R since.
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Happy dev with {purrr}
A transcription of my talk at the Rencontres R 2018.
7th Rencontres R
From the 4th to 6th of July, I was with ThinkR at
the 7th edition of the Rencontres
R, the annual
French meeting about R.
During this conference, I gave a lightning called “Vous allez aimer
avoir {purrr}”, which is a … Continue reading
Dockerise and deploy your own R Archive Repo
There are severals reasons you would want to deploy your own R archive repo: you don’t want to rely on GitHub for your dev packages, you want to use a more “confidential” way, or maybe (and that’s good enough a reason), you’re a nerd and you like the idea of hosting … Continue reading
The dependencies conundrum
A little dive into CRAN package dependencies.
What is a dependencies?
Roughly, a dependencie is a package needed by another package to work:
in other words, if someone has already coded a function that you need,
you can use it by listing another package as a dependency. But that also
implies that … Continue reading