I thought I’d try Julia out and see how far I could get with nothing but Google on my side.

I did a tweet earlier which was slightly less nonsense than usual. Shocker, I know.

Taras Kaduk produced a beautiful street map here and I decided to try it, but for Inverness.

Like many others in the ‘United’ Kingdom, I’ve found my energy supplier has gone bust, due to ongoing price hikes, and I’ve been moved over to another one, whom ordinarily I wouldn’t have signed up with.

I recently had to recreate a report which was originally produced in Excel. This is currently being converted to pdf and emailed out each morning. Initially I was thinking that a flexdashboard solution would be called for, but on seeing the report it was mainly tables, which the audience liked, ...

The world’s going to pot.

This question popped up in my Twitter feed earlier, courtesy of @PipingHotData

I submitted my cusumcharter package to CRAN late last Friday evening and was pleasantly surprised to receive an email early on Monday advising me it was on its way to CRAN.

You’ve written a great rmarkdown file, and now you want to run it at a set time every day. You’ve tried the Windows Task Scheduler, you’ve pointed it at your markdown file, and you’ve gone off to make some coffee safe in the knowledge that your ...

Fixed width files? What are those?

Back once again with the block rocking themes!