I’ve been doing a decent amount of R programming lately and I’ve wanted to experiment with GitHub’s new Monaspace type family. Once installed, though, only the variable font—er—variants register as fixed-width... [Read more...]

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I’ve been getting a lot of use recently from the Posit (née RStudio) Package Manager (PPM), because it offers freely available R package binaries for quite a few Linux distributions—including common ones I tend to s... [Read more...]

Here’s a trick I find useful during exploratory analysis and feature engineering; really, whenever I’m querying against database servers I don’t control: Log the connection PID at query time. It happens pretty... [Read more...]

Quarto is the up-and-coming “next generation version of R Markdown” being developed by RStudio. It’s more or less a superset of R Markdown/knitr that’s suited to programming languages besides R. Quarto&r... [Read more...]

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Yesterday, in a post syndicated to R-bloggers, kjytay asked about how to programmatically shuffle a data.table column in place, as the straightforward way didn’t work well. Here are two other ways to solve the same proble... [Read more...]

TIL that lapply accepts both functions and function names (as character vectors). From right there in the documentation (emph. mine): FUN is found by a call to match.fun and typically is specified as a function or a symbol (e.... [Read more...]

I’ve recently spent some time at work updating a few R packages we’ve built and deployed over the last several years, and during these updates I’ve run up against an old foe: my_package::run_model(...) #__ Error in UseMethod("predict") : #__ no applicable method for 'predict' applied to ... [Read more...]