Publications by Oscar
Top 21 #RStats tweets of 2021
13 December 2021 The R Community has been as active as ever on Twitter during 2021. Here’s a selection of the top 21 tweets of the year. Not on Twitter and don’t know where to start? Don’t worry! I co-authored the free book Twitter for R programmers with Veerle van Son to give you a gentle introduction to the platform and awesome communi...
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How to google R stuff
I love a lot about R except that its name is not great for SEO. When you’re very new to R it can be a bit hard to google solutions to your problems. In learning any new skill or tool it’s difficult to know what to google in the first place. With R, it’s a bit more difficult because the language’s name is just a single letter “R” which...
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A new way to discover R Programming books!
With over 250 books (and counting) in the Big Book of R collection, you could easily overlook a lot of useful ones. Sometimes you see a book and think “Hey that’ll be pretty useful if I ever work on [subject]” but when that time comes you’ve completely forgotten about it. It could also happen that when browsing the collection you just do...
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10 New books added to Big Book of R
14 January 2022 We’re off to a great start (book wise!) for 2022. Here’s 10 new additions to Big Book of R. Quite a few more paid versions of books in this round and they look good. Thanks to Burak Aydin, Manika Lamba, Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda, Samrit Pramanik , Kurt Taylor Gaubatz for some of the additions. Before we begin – there�...
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Tips for building a Twitter bot with R and Github Actions
16 January 2022 A couple of weeks ago I created my very first twitter bot which was immensely satisfying. It was also quite a frustrating process and this post should save you a lot of frustration :). You can view the code in the github repo. I can’t give enough thanks to Matt Dray for the “A Twitter bot with {rtweet} and GitHub Actions” po...
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11 New Books added to Big Book of R
06 February 2022 Welcome to a very special edition of Big Book of R updates. For the past week, my kid has been asking to help me out with Big Book of R and created this amazing featured image. It’s an outer-space theme complete with a space-monkey (holding a banana) tethered to a rocket and a space-cow (saying “moo”) being abducted by a ...
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