You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: ‘fusen’ v0.3: Better project templates, grouped functions and numerous other enhancements {fusen} gets some maturity! v0.3 is a big rebranding for a more fluid experience, from beginners to advanced developers. Creating a fully documented ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: {gitlabr} v2.0 is on CRAN! You regularly create projects on GitLab with a common skeleton, you want to retrieve the list of GitLab issues to create a report, you are looking for batch modifications ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: {fusen} is now available on CRAN! With first version of {fusen} 0.2.4 now available on CRAN, you do not have any excuses not to try it in your daily workflows. install.packages(“fusen”) Add new ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: {fusen}: Create a package from a simple RMarkdown file You know how to build a Rmd, you were said or would like to put your work in a R package, but you think this ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: How to develop inside a Docker container to ease collaboration? To ensure the reproducibility of your projects, you can develop in the Docker container that you will use to share your work. Indeed, what ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Modify RStudio prompt to show current git branch At the last Raddicts Paris Meetup, Romain Francois (to be followed on twitter here) made one strong impression, among others, with his RStudio console which indicates ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Download Gitlab or Github issues and make a summary report of your commits While working on our {gitdown} package, I wanted to show more information on the report generated by retrieving all issues of ...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Transform a folder as git project synchronized on Github or Gitlab You have been working for years on your R scripts, and saved all versions as “script_v1.R”, “script_v2.R”, “script_v2_...

You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Installation of R 4.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and tips for spatial packages You plan to upgrade your server installation from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? It is also the best time to migrate to R 4.0 ! By ...

At useR!2019 in Toulouse, ThinkR opened a quizz allowing to win a pipe knight. About a hundred of respondents won this Playmobil. In this blog post, we review the questions and respondents answers. We’ll see that the crowd as almost always right, but they do not know who the ...

Documentation matters ! Think about future you and others. Whatever is the aim of your script and analyses, you should think about documentation. The way I see it, R package structure is made for that. Let me try to convince you. At use’R 2019 in Toulouse, I did a presentation entitled: ‘...

We are pleased to announce that our package {attachment} is now available on CRAN. The goal of attachment is to help to deal with package dependencies during package development. It also gives useful tools to install or list missing packages used inside Rscripts or Rmds. Deal with dependencies during package ...

PostGIS extends capabilities of PostgreSQL database to deal with spatial data. Using PostGIS, your database supports geographic queries to be run directly in SQL. In this blog post, we will connect and interact with a PostGIS database from R, using {DBI} and {sf}. Package {sf} and PostGIS are friends Package {...

Can mapping tools be diverted to other uses? Of course ! See how we play with leaflet and leafgl to quickly render a giant waffle made of millions of polygons. Spatial tools are not only for spatial data At SatRday in Paris, I presented a talk entitled “Everything but maps with ...

Do you plan to upgrade your server installation from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ? It is also the best time to migrate to R 3.5 ! By the way, if you always found difficult to install R packages for geographical data on Ubuntu, this time is over. Just follow the guide… New Ubuntu ...