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Porting and redirecting a Hugo-based blogdown website to an HTTPS-enabled custom domain and how to do it the easy way

May 11, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction As we wrote in Should you start your R blog now?, blogging has probably never been more accessible to the general population, R users included. Usually, the simplest solution is to host your blog via a service that provides it for free, such as Netlify, GitHub or GitLab Pages. ...

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Setting up continuous multi-platform R package building, checking and testing with R-Hub, Docker and GitLab CI/CD for free, with a working example

April 27, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction In the previous post, we looked at how to easily automate R analysis, modeling, and development work for free using GitLab’s CI/CD. Together with the fantastic R-hub project, we can use GitLab CI/CD to do much more. In this post, we will take it to the ... [Read more...]

How to easily automate R analysis, modeling and development work using CI/CD, with working examples

April 13, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction Automating the execution, testing and deployment of R work is a very powerful tool to ensure the reproducibility, quality and overall robustness of the code that we are building, be it for data analysis and modeling purposes, developing R packages or even blogging. Modern tools also provide a free ... [Read more...]

How to easily automate R analysis, modeling and development work using CI/CD, with working examples

April 13, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction Automating the execution, testing and deployment of R work is a very powerful tool to ensure the reproducibility, quality and overall robustness of the code that we are building, be it for data analysis and modeling purposes, developing R packages or even blogging. Modern tools also provide a free ... [Read more...]

Should you start your R blog now? 6 reasons I found in my first year of R blogging

March 30, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction It has been a year since I posted the first post on this blog. Since that time, I have learned many lessons, but the main one is probably that blogging has never been as accessible as it is now. In this anniversary post, I would like ...

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Should you start your R blog now? 6 reasons I found in my first year of R blogging

March 30, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction It has been a year since I posted the first post on this blog. Since that time, I have learned many lessons, but the main one is probably that blogging has never been as accessible as it is now. In this anniversary post, I would like ...

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How to create professional reports from R scripts, with custom styles.

March 16, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction If the practical tips for R Markdown post we talked briefly about how we can easily create professional reports directly from R scripts, without the need for converting them manually to Rmd and creating code chunks. In this one, we will provide useful tips on advanced options for styling, ...

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How to create professional reports from R scripts, with custom styles

March 16, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction If the practical tips for R Markdown post we talked briefly about how we can easily create professional reports directly from R scripts, without the need for converting them manually to Rmd and creating code chunks. In this one, we will provide useful tips on advanced options for styling, ...

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Creating blazing fast pivot tables from R with data.table – now with subtotals using grouping sets

March 2, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction Data manipulation and aggregation is one of the classic tasks anyone working with data will come across. We of course can perform data transformation and aggregation with base R, but when speed and memory efficiency come into play, data.table is my package of choice. In this post we ... [Read more...]

Creating blazing fast pivot tables from R with data.table – now with subtotals using grouping sets

March 2, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction Data manipulation and aggregation is one of the classic tasks anyone working with data will come across. We of course can perform data transformation and aggregation with base R, but when speed and memory efficiency come into play, data.table is my package of choice. In this post we ... [Read more...]

Verbose data.table and uncovering hidden cedta’s data table awareness decisions

February 16, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction When speed and memory efficiency is important, the data.table package is one of the ways to improve those aspects of our R code dramatically. Including data.table in a package also comes with the added benefit of only importing the methods package, which is part of base R. ... [Read more...]

Verbose data.table and uncovering hidden cedta’s data table awareness decisions

February 16, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction When speed and memory efficiency is important, the data.table package is one of the ways to improve those aspects of our R code dramatically. Including data.table in a package also comes with the added benefit of only importing the methods package, which is part of base R. ... [Read more...]

R Markdown: 3 sources of reproducibility issues and options how to tackle them

February 2, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction R Markdown is a great tool to use for creating reports, presentations and even websites that contain evaluated and rendered code. This can help us immensely when presenting data science type of work to audiences, while still being able to version control the content creation process. One of the ...

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R Markdown: 3 sources of reproducibility issues and options how to tackle them

February 2, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction R Markdown is a great tool to use for creating reports, presentations and even websites that contain evaluated and rendered code. This can help us immensely when presenting data science type of work to audiences, while still being able to version control the content creation process. One of the ...

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Create R Markdown reports and presentations even better with these 3 practical tips

January 19, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction Including R Markdown in the workflow for presenting and publishing analyses that use code in R or other languages is a great way to make presentations, dashboards or reports good looking, reproducible and version controllable. In this post, we will look at three simple ways to improve that workflow ... [Read more...]

Create R Markdown reports and presentations even better with these 3 practical tips

January 19, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction Including R Markdown in the workflow for presenting and publishing analyses that use code in R or other languages is a great way to make presentations, dashboards or reports good looking, reproducible and version controllable. In this post, we will look at three simple ways to improve that workflow ... [Read more...]

Here’s why 2019 is a great year to start with R: A story of 10 year old R code then and now

January 5, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction It has been more than ten years since I wrote my first R code. And in those years, the R world has changed dramatically, and mostly to the better. I believe that the current time may be one of the best times to start working with R. In this ...

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Here’s why 2019 is a great year to start with R: A story of 10 year old R code then and now

January 5, 2019 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction It has been more than ten years since I wrote my first R code. And in those years, the R world has changed dramatically, and mostly to the better. I believe that the current time may be one of the best times to start working with R. In this ...

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5 amazing free tools that can help with publishing R results and blogging

December 22, 2018 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction It is Christmas time! And what better time than this to write about the great tools that are available to all who like R and would like to publish their R work or even blog about it. This post is meant as a praise to the tools that are...

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5 amazing free tools that can help with publishing R results and blogging

December 22, 2018 | Jozef's Rblog

Introduction It is Christmas time! And what better time than this to write about the great tools that are available to all who like R and would like to publish their R work or even blog about it. This post is meant as a praise to the tools that are...

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Porting and redirecting a Hugo-based blogdown website to an HTTPS-enabled custom domain and how to do it the easy way

Setting up continuous multi-platform R package building, checking and testing with R-Hub, Docker and GitLab CI/CD for free, with a working example

How to easily automate R analysis, modeling and development work using CI/CD, with working examples

How to easily automate R analysis, modeling and development work using CI/CD, with working examples

Should you start your R blog now? 6 reasons I found in my first year of R blogging

Should you start your R blog now? 6 reasons I found in my first year of R blogging

How to create professional reports from R scripts, with custom styles.

How to create professional reports from R scripts, with custom styles

Creating blazing fast pivot tables from R with data.table – now with subtotals using grouping sets

Creating blazing fast pivot tables from R with data.table – now with subtotals using grouping sets

Verbose data.table and uncovering hidden cedta’s data table awareness decisions

Verbose data.table and uncovering hidden cedta’s data table awareness decisions

R Markdown: 3 sources of reproducibility issues and options how to tackle them

R Markdown: 3 sources of reproducibility issues and options how to tackle them

Create R Markdown reports and presentations even better with these 3 practical tips

Create R Markdown reports and presentations even better with these 3 practical tips

Here’s why 2019 is a great year to start with R: A story of 10 year old R code then and now

Here’s why 2019 is a great year to start with R: A story of 10 year old R code then and now

5 amazing free tools that can help with publishing R results and blogging

5 amazing free tools that can help with publishing R results and blogging

Articles by Jozef's Rblog

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