Flexible functions in data.table I’m getting slightly more experienced with data.table, and I really like it. My learning method was to get pretty deep for a month, reading everything I could and replicating my dplyr code in data.table. I ... [Read more...]

getting started multiple bare variable names in data.table functions - Flexible functions in data.table I’m getting slightly more experienced with data.table, and I really like it. My learning method was to get pretty deep for a month, re... [Read more...]

getting started with multiple bare variable names in data.table functions - Flexible functions in data.table I’m getting slightly more experienced with data.table, and I really like it. My learning method was to get pretty deep for a month,... [Read more...]

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Big up the NHS - Background The NHSRdatasets package made it to CRAN recently, and as it is designed for use by NHS data analysts, and I am an NHS data analyst, let’s take a look at it. Thanks to Chris Mainey and Tom Jemmett for getting this... [Read more...]

Unborking the borked laptop - Recap I’m trying to learn some Linux. Ostensibly to do some data science at the command line, because it feels like something I might need to know at some point. I have reclaimed an old Windows laptop ( poorly ... [Read more...]

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very brief intro notes - I like dplyr I’ve used data.table in the past, though didn’t persevere with it enough. My happy safe space is dplyr & ggplot2. I love these packages and use them almost every time I use R. Every so often , I s... [Read more...]

very brief intro notes - I like dplyr I’ve used data.table in the past, though didn’t persevere with it enough. My happy safe space is dplyr & ggplot2. I love these packages and use them almost every time I use R. Every so often , ... [Read more...]

very brief intro notes - I like dplyr I’ve used data.table in the past, though didn’t persevere with it enough. My happy safe space is dplyr & ggplot2. I love these packages and use them almost every time I use R. Every so often , ... [Read more...]

A thing what I built - Waffle I didn’t write a blog post in March, because I was busy doing other stuff, but it turns out no one noticed, or maybe they did, and simply didn’t care. Well, I care, because it brought my streak of 20 success... [Read more...]

very brief intro notes - I like dplyr I’ve used data.table in the past, though didn’t persevere with it enough. My happy safe space is dplyr & ggplot2. I love these packages and use them almost every time I use R. Every so often , ... [Read more...]

Dplyr 0.8.0 launched recently, which you probably already know, but just in case you missed it.. Two new functions have been catching my eye : group_map and group_split. The aim of this post - take a first look at these and try and get a ne... [Read more...]

Dplyr 0.8.0 launched recently, which you probably already know, but just in case you missed it.. Two new functions have been catching my eye : group_map and group_split. The aim of this post - take a first look at these and try and get a ne... [Read more...]

Dplyr 0.8.0 launched recently, which you probably already know, but just in case you missed it.. Two new functions have been catching my eye : group_map and group_split. The aim of this post - take a first look at these and try and get a ne... [Read more...]

gganimate hits CRAN - At the NHS_R conference back in October, I showed a few ways of building animations using gifski - I also wrote up the method I used in an earlier post right here. And, the source code for all this stuff is available f... [Read more...]

gganimate hits CRAN - At the NHS_R conference back in October, I showed a few ways of building animations using gifski - I also wrote up the method I used in an earlier post right here. And, the source code for all this stuff is available f... [Read more...]

gganimate hits CRAN - At the NHS_R conference back in October, I showed a few ways of building animations using gifski - I also wrote up the method I used in an earlier post right here. And, the source code for all this stuff is available f... [Read more...]