Fairly often, a coworker who is strong in Excel, but weak in writing code will come to me for help in special details about customers in their datasets. Sometimes the reason is to call, email, or snail mail a survey, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

I recently came to the conclusion that I need a more meaningful way to track my productivity than the spreadsheet I am currently using, so my next few posts are going to be about building a system in R to … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Let's say you have a whole lot of csv files in your working directory.  By some convenient act of divine grace they also happen to have the same column structures.  Reading them into R can be a slow matter as … Continue reading → [Read more...]