Publications by Posts on Maëlle's R blog
O’Reilly animals in trouble? Conservation status of book covers
What can a kaka, a kakapo, an European rabbit and a grey heron have in common? Well, they might co-habit in the bookshelf of an R user, since they’re all animals on the covers of popular R books: “R Packages”, “R for Data Science”, “Text mining with R” and “Efficient R programming”, respectively. Their publisher, O’Reilly, has...
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Spookify: Halloween Name Generation in R
It’s October, time for spooky Twitter names! If you’re on this social media platform, you might have noticed some of your friends switching their names to something spooky and punny. Last year I was “Maelstrom Salmon”, which I find scary but is arguably not that funny. Anyhow, what if you want to switch your name but have no inspiration? ...
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Make a trailer for your slidedeck with av
rOpenSci post-doc hacker Jeroen Ooms has just released a cool new package, av, that he wrote “will become the video counterpart of the magick package which [rOpenSci uses] for working with images.”. av provides bindings to the FFmepg libraries for editing videos. It’s already become a renderer for gganimate by Thomas Lin Pedersen, but av al...
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Advent of Code: Most Popular Languages
You might have heard of the Advent of Code, a 25-day challenge involving a programming puzzle a day, to be solved with the language of your choice. I’ve noted the popularity of this activity in my Twitter timeline but also in my GitHub timeline where I’ve seen the creation of a few advent-of-code or so repositories. AoC is largely an exercise...
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My #Best9of2018 tweets
As 2018 nears its end, it’s time for me to look back on my R/Twitter year with the same simple method as last year: let me identify and webshoot my 9 best tweets of 2018! Downloading and opening my Twitter data Like in 2017 I tweeted too much and therefore was unable to rely on rtweet::get_timeline() (or rtweet::get_my_timeline()) to download ...
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Your and my 2019 R goals
Here we go again, using a Twitter trend as blog fodder! Colin Fay launched an inspiring movement by sharing his R goals of 2019. My #RStats goals for 2019: 1️⃣ Becoming entirely fluent with {data.table}2️⃣ Getting at ease with {Rcpp} What are yours?#rdatatable #rcpp— Colin Fay ???? (@_ColinFay) December 29, 2018 It’s been quite intere...
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Keeping up to date with R news
I’ve now given my talk about “How to be a resilient R user” three times, at R-Ladies Strasbourg and R-Ladies Paris in person, and at R-Ladies San José via Google Hangouts. It was fun! I covered part of the content of that talk in a blog post about where to get R help. Today, it’s time for a post full of my personal opinions! I’ll cover...
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How did Axios rectangle Trump’s PDF schedule? A try with R
Last week, Axios published a very interesting piece reporting on Trump’s private schedule thanks to an insider’s leak. The headlines all were about Trump’s spending more than 60% of his time in “executive time” which admittedly was indeed the most important aspect of the story. I, however, also got curious about Axios’ work to go from...
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Goodbye, Disqus! Hello, Utterances!
Removing Disqus from my blogdown blog had been on my mind for a while, ever since I saw Bob Rudis’ tweet enjoining Noam Ross to not use it for his brand-new website. The same Twitter thread introduced me to Utterances, a “lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues”, which I have at last installed to my blog in lieu of Disqus. How di...
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