The first 5mins with survey data
How do you spend your first 5 minutes with survey data?.
New RStudio projects directly from Spotlight
Do you want a way to quickly create and launch new RStudio projects directly from Spotlight… all saved in a sensible location? Automator has your back.
Merging or migrating blogdown sites
A short post on redirecting blogposts from an old {blogdown} blog to a new blog.
Things we learned in September 2019
September 2019 has been a great month for us. We officially launched our website and started to move our work away from individual twitter accounts (e.g. @charliejhadley) and have started building our …
tidyr 1.0: gather() and spread() are dead
{tidyr} version 1.0 has just been released on CRAN in September 2019, 5 years after it’s conception in Hadley Wickham’s seminal Tidy Data paper. While {tidyr} might not get as much love as {dplyr} and …
Prefix operators in R
Turns out there’s a neat trick to use R’s infix operators with prefix notation! Let’s demonstrate how…
Shiny modules to reduce duplication in apps
Shiny apps are awesome, with a bit of training you can build fairly impressive interactive web apps. But at some point, the subject of “shiny modules” will rear its head. When I started learning …
One weird regex matches 97% of DOI...
This one weird regex matches 97% of DOI…
Where is the centre of University of Oxford?
University of Oxford has over 800 years of history to it, but if you want to organise a meeting at the centre of campus… where do you meet?
Keeping secrets in blogdown
Keeping API keys and passwords secret in a blogdown blog using the static/ folder and the secret package.