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So Advent of Code 2019 ended last week, and I got all 50 stars. The challenges became considerably more challenging compared to the first half, but base R did allow acceptably efficient solutions in almost all cases. My code is still on GitHub - here’s what I learned about R by ... [Read more...]

’tis the season to be coding! As I’m sure you’ve all noticed (cough) I have been rather quiet on the blogging front lately because my leisure coding time has been consumed by the annual Advent of Code challenge. It would have been fun to use this to become ... [Read more...]

Most R users rely heavily on the interactive console for writing and executing code, but sometimes you will want to expose your work to a world outside of that cosy cocoon. One solution is to wrap a web API around your code, for instance using the excellent {plumber}. The other ... [Read more...]

I promised to keep these posts short and sweet, and have been failing miserably lately. So how about a quick one? The problem One of the things I find myself implementing again and again in R is the computation of the Euclidean cross-distances of all pairwise points between two coordinate ... [Read more...]