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How I made every tech company that I may ever want to work for in the future...
It turns out that when people tell you things, you should listen. Like when Joe Rickert of Microsoft says “this is not news, please don’t repeat what I’m about to say”, you should maybe take note and...
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From cats to zombies, Wednesday at useR2015
The morning opened with someone who I was too bleary eyed to work out who it was. Possibly the dean of the University of Aalborg. Anyway, he said that this is the largest ever useR conference, and the...
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The state of assertions in R
“Assertion” is computer-science jargon for a run-time check on your code. In R , this typically means function argument checks (“did they pass a numeric vector rather than a character vector into your...
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New version of assertive and answers to tutorial exercises
I gave a tutorial at useR on testing R code, which turned out to be a great way of getting feedback on my code! Based on the suggestions by attendees, I’ve made a big update to the package, which is...
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R packages with unlimited licenses
I had an interesting email today saying that developers at the writer’s company wanted to use one of my packages, but weren’t allowed because it was under an unlimited license. I release quite a few of...
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Qatar R User Group
Microsoft have announced new funding for R User Groups (Python and Hadoop too), so now seems as good a time as any for me to stop procrastinating and set up a Qatar R User Group. If you live anywhere...
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Big package update: assertive is now 16 packages; new pathological also on CRAN
One of the bits of feedback that I got from the useR conference was that my assertive package, for run-time testing of code, was too big. Since then I’ve been working to modularise it, and the results...
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RL10N: Let R Speak Your Language
R has been translated into 20 languages but currently not many packages have translations. In a survey of CRAN done last December, of the 8274 packages on CRAN, only 50 had any installed translations....
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Introducing DohaR – A new R User Group in Doha, Qatar
I’m starting a new R User Group in Doha, Qatar. Our first meetup is on 26th May, at the HBKU Student Center in Education City. I’ll be talking about run-time testing with my assertive package, and...
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R programming has seen a big shift in the last couple of years. All those packages that RStudio have been creating to solve this or that problem suddenly started to cohere into a larger ecosystem of...
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