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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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