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{geotargets} 0.2.0

November 26, 2024 | Blog on Credibly Curious

I’m super stoked to announce {geotargets} version 0.2.0! The {geotargets} package extends {targets} to work with geospatial data formats. I’d like to firstly acknowledge the strong work by Eric Scott on getting this release ready. I do want...
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{geotargets} 0.1.0

May 26, 2024 | Blog on Credibly Curious

I’m very happy to announce {geotargets} version 0.1.0! The {geotargets} package extends {targets} to work with geospatial data formats. Version 0.1.0 supports terra::vect(), terra::rast() and terra::sprc() formats. This R package is only possible... [Read more...]

Rstats RSE January Digest

January 9, 2024 | Blog on Credibly Curious

A Happy Log, near Echo Lake, California. Fuji X100V, Nicholas Tierney. I’ve been trying to read a bit more widely about R programming and other features of programming lately. I’ve seen some great newsletters from people like Bob Rudis i...
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Some Goals for 2024

January 9, 2024 | Blog on Credibly Curious

Flowers in the Victorian Alps, Ricoh GRiii, Nicholas Tierney. To help me be more accountable, and also work out how to plan my year and work out what’s important to me, I thought I’d share some of my goals for 2024. Writing it all down i...
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How to Get Good with R?

November 9, 2023 | Blog on Credibly Curious

A Stop Sign in Melbourne, Film, Pentax K1000, Nick Tierney Someone recently asked me, “How do you get good with R?”. It’s a good question. I’m not sure I have a good answer. But I’ve been thinking about it, and I’...
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September 28, 2019 | Blog on Credibly Curious

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Explore longitudinal data with brolgar

August 12, 2019 | Blog on Credibly Curious

Let’s say we’ve managed to find an interesting dataset 1 on heights for given countries since 1550 (yup!): country year height_cm continent Afghanistan 1870 168.40 Asia Afghanistan 1880 165.69 Asia Afghanistan 1930 166.80 Asia Afghanistan 1990 167.10 Asia Afghanistan 2000 161.40 Asia Albania 1880 170.10 Europe We’ve got country, year, height (in centimetres), and continent. Neat! Now, let’s look ...
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Glue magic Part I

July 6, 2019 | Blog on Credibly Curious

Lately I’ve found myself using Jim Hester’s glue package instead of paste0 or sprintf. This post marks the start of an ongoing series of little magic spells using the glue package. The back story I’ve been through a few stages of discovery for combining strings of text ... [Read more...]

Announcing ‘Just Three Things’

February 17, 2019 | Blog on Credibly Curious

A little while ago I showed Karthik Ram the percent function from scales, and he said something along the lines of: There should be a high quality screencase where someone shows a couple of rstats tricks and thats it. So this is it! I just uploaded a screencast to youtube ...
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