Publications by HighlandR
runcharter
A thing what I built – Waffle I didn’t write a blog post in March, because I was busy doing other stuff, but it turns out no one noticed, or maybe they did, and simply didn’t care. Well, I care, because it brought my streak of 20 successive monthly blog posts to an end. Which means I need to start a new one. And, if I was going to ...
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data.table by a dummy
very brief intro notes – I like dplyr I’ve used data.table in the past, though didn’t persevere with it enough. My happy safe space is dplyr & ggplot2. I love these packages and use them almost every time I use R. Every so often , I see mentions of cool data.table features and it has annoyed me that because I didn’t get the ba...
5942 sym R (2407 sym/17 pcs)
data.table by a dummy
very brief intro notes – I like dplyr I’ve used data.table in the past, though didn’t persevere with it enough. My happy safe space is dplyr & ggplot2. I love these packages and use them almost every time I use R. Every so often , I see mentions of cool data.table features and it has annoyed me that because I didn’t get the ba...
5942 sym R (2407 sym/17 pcs)
data.table by a dummy
very brief intro notes – I like dplyr I’ve used data.table in the past, though didn’t persevere with it enough. My happy safe space is dplyr & ggplot2. I love these packages and use them almost every time I use R. Every so often , I see mentions of cool data.table features and it has annoyed me that because I didn’t get the ba...
5964 sym R (2407 sym/17 pcs)
Learning Linux – the wrong way – day 2
Unborking the borked laptop – Recap I’m trying to learn some Linux. Ostensibly to do some data science at the command line, because it feels like something I might need to know at some point. I have reclaimed an old Windows laptop ( poorly specced, with missing keys and a penchant for sending the cursor up several lines at once with...
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Learning Linux – the wrong way – day 2
Unborking the borked laptop – Recap I’m trying to learn some Linux. Ostensibly to do some data science at the command line, because it feels like something I might need to know at some point. I have reclaimed an old Windows laptop ( poorly specced, with missing keys and a penchant for sending the cursor up several lines at once with...
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Learning Linux – the wrong way – day 2
Unborking the borked laptop – Recap I’m trying to learn some Linux. Ostensibly to do some data science at the command line, because it feels like something I might need to know at some point. I have reclaimed an old Windows laptop ( poorly specced, with missing keys and a penchant for sending the cursor up several lines at once with...
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NHSRdatasets meets runcharter
Big up the NHS – Background The NHSRdatasets package made it to CRAN recently, and as it is designed for use by NHS data analysts, and I am an NHS data analyst, let’s take a look at it. Thanks to Chris Mainey and Tom Jemmett for getting this together. Load packages and data As above let’s load what we need for this session. The run...
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NHSRdatasets meets runcharter
Big up the NHS – Background The NHSRdatasets package made it to CRAN recently, and as it is designed for use by NHS data analysts, and I am an NHS data analyst, let’s take a look at it. Thanks to Chris Mainey and Tom Jemmett for getting this together. Load packages and data As above let’s load what we need for this session. The run...
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NHSRDatasets meets runcharter
Big up the NHS – Background The NHSRDatasets package made it to CRAN recently, and as it is designed for use by NHS data analysts, and I am an NHS data analyst, let’s take a look at it. Thanks to Chris Mainey and Tom Jemmett for getting this together. Load packages and data As above let’s load what we need for this session. The run...
3620 sym R (7482 sym/11 pcs) 2 img