Publications by HighlandR

cusumcharter available on CRAN

19.11.2021

I submitted my cusumcharter package to CRAN late last Friday evening and was pleasantly surprised to receive an email early on Monday advising me it was on its way to CRAN. Big thanks to the CRAN maintainers who manage to work through the queues of packages so quickly. The package has several functions aimed at making it easier to create CUSUM ch...

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Shooting Stars

21.11.2021

This question popped up in my Twitter feed earlier, courtesy of @PipingHotData I did answer in a tweet, but I want to expand on that, so here goes.. Why would you follow someone on GitHub? I suppose the obvious one, at least for me, is that you like someone’s work – if I see someone has built 2 or 3 packages that I think are useful or intere...

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I got my first package onto CRAN, and YOU CAN TOO

22.11.2021

It’s almost 2 weeks since I had my first package successfully submitted to CRAN. The runcharter package is special to me for lots of reasons – it was a tough problem to crack, and it’s one I’ve worked on with a variety of tools over the years. If this package had existed back in 2012, (and if I’d known what R was back then), my working...

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