Publications by Econometrics and Free Software
Building your own knitr compile farm on your Raspberry Pi with {plumber}
Rage is my fuel I’ve had the {plumber} package on my radar for quite some time, but never tried it. However, a couple of weeks ago, I finally had a reason to try it out and see how the package works. One of my main problems in life is that my work laptop runs Windows, and my second problem is that I need to compile \(\LaTeX\) documents (via Rma...
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Is it worth the weight?
Intro Oh man, I did it again. Grab a coffee, this is going to be a long one. Weights got me confused. The justification for using weights seems simple enough; if you’re working with a sample in which one (or more) strata are over(under)-represented, you should compute weighted univariate statistics. I’ve discussed this already here. But what ...
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The quest for fast(er?) row-oriented workflows
The past few weeks I have been exploring the speed of R. It started with this video in which I explained that R is not necessarily slower than any other interpreted language, as long as you’re using the built-in, optimized functions. However should you write your own implementation of an algorithm, especially if that algorithm requires the use ...
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Speedrunning row-oriented workflows
If you haven’t, you should read this first. This is part two. Speedrunning is the… hrm… – sport? art? – of playing games from start to finish as fast as possible. Speedrunning requires an insane amount of knowledge of the game being played, as well as an enourmous amount of skill. Also, contrary to what you might think, it is a communit...
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How to write code that returns (Rmarkdown) code
One of the most useful aspects of using a programming language instead of… well, not using a programming language, is that you can write code in a way that minimizes, and ideally, eliminates the need to repeat yourself. For instance, you can write a function to show you a frequency table, like so: suppressMessages(library(dplyr)) create_table ...
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Add logging to your functions using my newest package `{loud}`
This is a short blog post to announce the early alpha, hyper unstable, use at your own peril, package I’ve been working on for the past 6 hours or so (actually longer if I add all the research/study time). This package provides the function loudly() which allows you to do cool stuff like: # First two lines install the package # install.packages...
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