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The timeplyr R package, created by my colleague Nick, was accepted on CRAN in October 2023. A direct quote from the CRAN page is that …
5 min read R

I just wrote a post about grouped sequences in dplyr and following that, I’ve been made aware of another couple of solutions to this …
4 min read R

For a piece of work I had to calculate the number of matches that a team plays away from home in a row, which we will call …
3 min read R

Combining case_when() and across() If you want to use case_when() and across() different variables, then here is an example that can do …
2 min read R

This blog post is just a note that when you try to do a grouped summary of a date variable but some groups have all missing values, it …
2 min read R

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 …
8 min read R, Personal

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

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 …
1 min read R

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

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