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Rafa 21 Grand Slams and gganimate
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 …
Feb 13, 2022
8 min read
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Filtering with string statements in dplyr
A question came up recently at work about how to use a filter statement entered as a complete string variable inside dplyr’s filter() …
May 13, 2020
2 min read
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Updating packages on a drat repo
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 …
May 3, 2020
1 min read
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Scotland's Most Popular Babynames
Downloading the data Shiny App I recently saw this great post on Nathan Yau’s FlowingData website which guesses a person’s name based …
Jan 25, 2020
4 min read
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Trying the ckanr Package
How resources are grouped in CKAN Initialising ckanr and exploring groups of resources Connect to CKAN with dplyr and download from one …
Nov 12, 2019
8 min read
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objectremover RStudio Addin
A Learning Exercise Workflow I created my first ever R package and got it released onto CRAN in March 2019. It’s taken me a while to …
Aug 12, 2019
5 min read
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Hacking dbplyr for CKAN
Aim Create a dummy database Test dbplyr’s SQL translation Modify dbplyr’s SQL translation Testing the dbplyr hack Concluding notes At …
Jul 7, 2019
6 min read
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Getting Open Data into R from CKAN
Preamble Open Data in Scotland Querying CKAN Querying with Custom JSON Querying with SQL Conclusions and Further Ideas Preamble I’ve …
Jun 5, 2019
9 min read
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Glasgow R User Group
I am very excited to hear that there are attempts to create a brand new R user group in Glasgow! I had just talked in Post Number One …
May 21, 2019
1 min read
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Post Number One
I suppose this is my hello world post – I’ve never been good at getting my messages out there (I’m minimally active on social media, …
May 19, 2019
3 min read
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