I'm creating an R API wrapper around my state's public transport service. To make life easier for the users, the responses from the API calls are parsed and returned as tibbles/data frames. To make life easier for me, I need to keep track of the API call behind each tibble. I do this by using the......

The last few weeks have been all about R package development for me. First I was exploring GitHub actions with the lovely people at the rOpenSci OzUnconf, and then I was off to San Francisco to learn about Building Tidy Tools with the Wickham siblings

There's a concept in R of an analysis as a package, in which everything you need for your data analysis is contained within a custom package. When you install the package and build the vignettes, the data analysis is per...

When I started this blog I wanted a way to share the quick little projects that distract me. I gave some thought to licencing, but I wanted to make sure that people could use my code if it had any value to them. This is just a little blog by a very unimportant guy---if someone got some use out of......

If you listen to university advertisements for data science masters degrees, you'd believe that data scientists are so in-demand that they can walk into any company, state their salary, and start work straight away. If you listen to university advertisements for data science masters degrees, you'......

Whenever I take an interest in something I think to myself, "How can I combine this with R?" Whenever I take an interest in something I think to myself, "How can I combine this with R?"

When I found myself using R in a corporate environment, my workflow went like this: When I found myself using R in a corporate environment, my workflow went like this:

That's it for \#useR2018. After 6 keynotes, 132 parallel sessions, many more lightning talks and posters, and an all-important conference dinner, we've reached the end of the week. That's it for \#useR2018. After 6 keynotes, 132 parallel sessions, many more lightning talks and posters, and an all......

These are my notes for the third and final tutorial of useR2018, and the tutorial I was looking forward to the most. I struggle with missing value imputation. It's one of those things which I kind of get the theory of, but fall over when trying to do. So I was keen to hear Julie Joss

These are my notes for the super helpful tutorial given by Elizabeth Stark on the first day of the UseR 2018 conference. This was an introduction to Docker for R users who have no prior experience with Docker (which was me!). These are my notes for the super he...