Articles by Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R

Packages vs ProjectTemplate

July 29, 2014 | Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R

Packages vs ProjectTemplate tl;dr Imposing a different structure than R packages for distributing R code is a bad idea, especially now that R package tools have gotten to the point where managing a package has become much easier. ProjectTemplate ?? My last two posts (1, 2) provided an argument and an example ... [Read more...]

categoryCompare Paper Finally Out!

April 9, 2014 | Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R

categoryCompare Paper Finally Out! I can finally say that the publication on my Bioconductor package categoryCompare is finally published in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology section of Frontiers in Genetics. This has been a long time coming, and I wanted to give some background on the inspiration and development of ... [Read more...]

Self-written function help

February 21, 2014 | Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R

Self-written function help I have noted at least one instance (and there are probably others) about how Python's docStrings are so great, and wouldn't it be nice to have a similar system in R. Especially when you can have your new function tab completion available depending on your development environment. ... [Read more...]

Tim Hortons Density

December 8, 2013 | Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R

Tim Hortons Density Inspired by this post, I wanted to examine the locations and density of Tim Hortons restaurants in Canada. Using Stats Canada data, each census tract is queried on Foursquare for Tims locations. Setup
options(stringsAsFactors = F)
require(timmysDensity)
require(plyr)
require(maps)
require(ggplot2)
require(geosphere)
Statistics Canada Census Data The actual Statistics Canada data at the dissemination block ... [Read more...]

R Interface for Teaching

December 7, 2013 | Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R

R Interface for Teaching Kaitlin Thaney asked on Twitter last week about using Ramnath Vaidyanathan's new interactive R notebook 1 2 for teaching. Liking the look of interactive R notebook by @ramnath_vaidya. Any success stories in using to teach? http://t.co/wmVuFM2Rst (HT @_inundata)— Kaitlin Thaney (@kaythaney) July 9, 2013 Now, ... [Read more...]

Using Samatha

December 7, 2013 | Deciphering life: One bit at a time :: R

Using Samatha So I decided to try out David Springates Samatha package for statically building this blog. If you decide to use it, be warned, right now it is a little rough around the edges, and needs some work. David created his own blog using it, and has been using ... [Read more...]

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