Publications by Jakob Gepp
Flowcharts of functions
When you work on bigger R projects there comes a point when you may lose the overview of how your functions are connected. Or even worse: you get a large project and have to figure out what is actually happening! A possible remedy to this problem are flowcharts. If you started your project with a flowchart: good for you – if you did not, then i...
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strsplit – but keeping the delimiter
One of the functions I use the most is strsplit. It is quite useful if you want to separate a string by a specific character. Even if you have some complex rule for the split, most of the time you can solve this with a regular expression. However, recently I came across a problem I could not get my head around. I wanted to split the string but al...
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Comparing predictions: World Cup scores
As many others too, me and some colleges at STATWORX took part in a little betting game for the World Cup 2018. Since the group stage is over, I was wondering how well – or better – how worse my prediction was. I am comparing my result with other predictions by using the point system of the betting game. All functions, code and data can be f...
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An R package to create NEWS.md files
A while back, I started to create an R package that would help me and my collegues at STATWORX with our daily work. After writing the DESCRIPTION file, I did not want to do this ever again. I found the desc package which let's you parse, manipulate and reformat this file via some functions and ergo a script. If you want more info on that, check o...
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How we use emojis
Once upon a time, we at STATWORX used Slack just as a messenger, but than everything changed when emojis came… Since then, we use them for all kinds of purposes. For example we take polls with them to see were we will eat lunch or we capture unforgettable moments by creating new emojis. The possibilities are limitless! But since we use them so ...
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Day 01 – little helper checkdir
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper function within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those funct...
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Day 02 – little helper na_omitlist
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper function within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those funct...
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Day 03 – little helper multiplot
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those func...
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Day 04 – little helper evenstrings
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those func...
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Day 05 – little helper get_network
We at STATWORX work a lot with R and we often use the same little helper functions within our projects. These functions ease our daily work life by reducing repetitive code parts or by creating overviews of our projects. At first, there was no plan to make a package, but soon I realised, that it will be much easier to share and improve those func...
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