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I’ve been a Nadal fan for a long time – right back to the days of the pirate-pants so yeah, really a long time. In all this time, Rafa …

A question came up recently at work about how to use a filter statement entered as a complete string variable inside dplyr’s filter() …

This is just a small note (mainly for myself but hopefully may be of some use to a few others!) to remind of how to update a package on …

Downloading the data Shiny App I recently saw this great post on Nathan Yau’s FlowingData website which guesses a person’s name based …

How resources are grouped in CKAN Initialising ckanr and exploring groups of resources Connect to CKAN with dplyr and download from one …

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R Training Resources and Tips

A short list of resources and tips to help with learning some R basics, with particular focus on the tidyverse.

phstemplates

An R package containing standard templates for use by Public Health Scotland.

objectremover RStudio Addin

An RStudio addin to assist with removing objects from the global environment. Features include removing objects according to name patterns and object type.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

A quick summary and demo of my experience of using the redoc package.

Recent Publications

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We examined the impact of the first wave of COVID-19 in Scotland on drug and BBV services.

This study explores the impact of interferon-free therapies on hepatitis C virus related hepatocellular carcinoma at a population …

The goal of this study was to quantify the bias in estimating risk of hepatocellular carcinoma for patients with cirrhosis and cured …

We estimated HCV reinfection rates among PWID in Scotland pre and post-introduction of DAAs.

We conducted an external validation of six HCC prediction models for UK patients with cirrhosis HCV virological cure.