I have always been a huge fan of the R hexsticker culture. Sometimes I just want to create a new package just so I can design yet another sticker. I have started a digital collection a while ago and with the fantastic r-universe.dev, it was quit... [Read more...]

This is the second post about some “behind the scene” activities around R package development. The first part of the series was about the recent archival of my R package timeless. This second part is about the consequences for your own packages,... [Read more...]

This is just a short announcement post that the R package oaqc is back on CRAN. The package provides an efficient algorithm to calculate for a given graph the orbit-aware quad census. More precisely the frequency distribution of all induced and ... [Read more...]

Most of the posts on this blog include a lot of code an little text besides explaining what the code does. Although I “write for a living” (scientific papers and stuff), I am not a big fan of producing walls of text. “A line of code says more th... [Read more...]

The other day I stumbled upon this post on mastodon and I thought that this could be a nice evening challenge to implement. At the end, it took longer than an evening but at least I learned a lot about UUIDs and base58 encoding. What ar... [Read more...]

I am very excited to announce the project “R 4 Social Network Analysis” (R4SNA), an introductory book for individuals who want to get started with SNA in R. This blog post is supposed to answer some basic questions around the project and its (no... [Read more...]

This post introduces the R package chronos, a fast general purpose date/time converter written in Rust with crates dateparser and chrono. This is the second outcome of my adventure of learning Rust.1 The package essentially does what anytime doe... [Read more...]

On my bucket list for 2024 is to learn a bit of Rust. After reading (well skimming…) THE BOOK and doing a few experiments, I wanted to give it a try to incorporate some Rust code in an R package. I chose to wrap the phonenumber crate to parse ph... [Read more...]

The other day I was helping to refactor an R package and came across one of the biggest performance blockers there is: dynamically growing matrices. Of course I repeated the mantra “Always preallocate your variables” but in this case, it is not ... [Read more...]

Last week, a new version of the R package graphlayouts was released on CRAN. While I will walk through the (minor) updates, I also want to talk about the ups and downs of package maintenance. I am developing packages since 2017, but only when I ... [Read more...]

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One of my new years resolutions is to blog a bit more on the random shenanigans I do with R. This is one of those.1 The One Billion Row challenge by Gunnar Morling is as follows: write a Java program for retrieving temperature measurement value... [Read more...]

I migrated my personal webpage to Quarto in july 2022. The only thing I did not do was my blog; for two reasons: 1) Quarto was still very new and many of todays features were not available. I already needed to hack some things together for my pe... [Read more...]

This post was semi automatically converted from blogdown to Quarto and may contain errors. The original can be found in the archive. Dashboards are coming to Quarto in version 1.4. I already gave them a spin for a simple parking dashboard but fe... [Read more...]

This post was semi automatically converted from blogdown to Quarto and may contain errors. The original can be found in the archive. My colleague Chung-hong Chan started a new package in our teams GitHub organization. An issue there caught my at... [Read more...]

This post was semi automatically converted from blogdown to Quarto and may contain errors. The original can be found in the archive. The other week, I found an interesting looking library on GitHub. ada-url, a WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parse... [Read more...]

This post was semi automatically converted from blogdown to Quarto and may contain errors. The original can be found in the archive. Researchers have relied on free/easy access to APIs from social media platforms for a very long time. But in the... [Read more...]

This post was semi automatically converted from blogdown to Quarto and may contain errors. The original can be found in the archive. In this post, I will introduce a few extensions for Quarto to create nicely looking CVs. Disclaimer: the underly... [Read more...]

This post was semi automatically converted from blogdown to Quarto and may contain errors. The original can be found in the archive. Almost a year ago, I introduced my most recent network related R packages netUtils. The package is meant as a ca... [Read more...]

This post was semi automatically converted from blogdown to Quarto and may contain errors. The original can be found in the archive. My posts are usually R only. But in this post, I want to talk about a suite of tools developed by my colleagues ... [Read more...]