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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 …
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

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 …
5 min read R

Aim Create a dummy database Test dbplyr’s SQL translation Modify dbplyr’s SQL translation Testing the dbplyr hack Concluding notes At …
6 min read R

Preamble Open Data in Scotland Querying CKAN Querying with Custom JSON Querying with SQL Conclusions and Further Ideas Preamble I’ve …
9 min read R

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 …
1 min read R

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, …
3 min read Personal