There are severals reasons you would want to deploy your own R archive repo: you don’t want to rely on GitHub for your dev packages, you want to use a more “confidential” way, or maybe (and that’s good enough a reason), you’re a nerd and you like the idea of hosting your own repo. So, here’s how to. What’s...
A little dive into CRAN package dependencies. What is a dependencies? Roughly, a dependencie is a package needed by another package to work: in other words, if someone has already coded a function that you need, you can use it by listing another pack...
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The object oriented system is a nice and powerful way to program and to build softwares and data in R. Yet, it can be a little bit daunting at first, especially if you’ve alway been coding in R, and with functions. In this blogpost, we’ll have a look at {R6}, one of the most downloaded package from the CRAN,...
Serve the dataset from a package in RStudio Connection Pane. About {fryingpane} is a nice R dad joke a package that has only two functions: cook: serve the dataset from a package in your RStudio Connection Pane: serve: create a function in your package that will serve the datasets from the package inside the Connection Pane, with this kind...
A search on Twitter, some R, and just enough Neo4J. Disclaimer: of course everything here could be done in pure R. But hey, where’s the fun in that? Disclaimer bis: this blogpost relies on {neo4r}, a package still under active development. Get the tweets library(rtweet) ny % write_csv("~/neo4j/import/ny_tweets.csv") # CSV of users ny %__% select(status_id, screen_name) %__% write_csv("~/neo4j/import/ny_users.csv") #...
Create your own safely, compose and friends! What is an adverb If you read carefully the purrr documentation, you’ll find this simple explanation : Adverbs modify the action of a function; taking a function as input and returning a function with modified action as output. In other words, adverbs take a function, and return this function modified. Yes, just...
{dockerfiler} is a package that comes with a simple, object oriented API for Dockerfile creation, straight from your R session. Now on CRAN. Installation You can install {dockerfiler} from GitHub with: # install.packages("remotes") remotes::install_...
“Can you explain me what are environments in R?” The beginning of a series of blogpost about R concepts, explained to my daughter. Side note: no, my daughter is not five, and she’s not named Alice. And she doesn’t speak english either ¯\(...
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Well… documentation not included (of course). API are cool. They allow to retrieve data from the web, and if ever you’re familiar with {httr}, {jsonlite} and packages like these, you’re able to build requests and retrieve data in a matter of min...
