This question popped up in my Twitter feed earlier, courtesy of @PipingHotData I did answer in a tweet, but I want to expand on that, so here goes.. Why would you follow someone on GitHub? I suppose the obvious one, at least for me, is t...

I submitted my cusumcharter package to CRAN late last Friday evening and was pleasantly surprised to receive an email early on Monday advising me it was on its way to CRAN. Big thanks to the CRAN maintainers who manage to work through the qu...

You’ve written a great rmarkdown file, and now you want to run it at a set time every day. You’ve tried the Windows Task Scheduler, you’ve pointed it at your markdown file, and you’ve gone off to make some coffee safe in the knowledge that yo...

Fixed width files? What are those? Well, imagine your entire dataframe/ tibble/ data.table is in a single column. That’s it, over 200 columns, in one. Each row is a very long string. Sounds fun right? Ideally, there would be delimiters ...

Back once again with the block rocking themes! Yes, having produced a set of R colour palettes based on Metallica album covers, and then another set of palettes based (loosely) on classic rock album covers, I’ve decided to complete the set w...

I had the good fortune of stumbling across a tweet by the organisers of PreppinData This is a bit like Tidy Tuesday, except it’s focussed more on data preparation than data visualisation. Ostensibly, it’s for people to get to grips with Table...

I had the good fortune of stumbling across a tweet by the organisers of PreppinData This is a bit like Tidy Tuesday, except it’s focussed more on data preparation than data visualisation. Ostensibly, it’s for people to get to grips with Table...

The 3rd NHS-R Community Conference wrapped up a week ago last Friday, and was a hugely enjoyable event. There was a pre-conference training week, during which I was able to attend Syliva Canelon’s excellent xaringan workshops. They were fan...