“Google Season of Docs (GSoD) provides support for open source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source.” (Source: Program website)

Rendering PDFs with rmarkdown requires a working LaTeX installation, such as tinytex. Occasionally, existing workflows break with the newest version of LaTeX. This post describes how to run an older LaTeX version for just a little while.

Websites for R packages built with {pkgdown} have become a de-facto standard over the last few years. Many R packages build their site during Continuous Integration (CI) runs, pushing the assets to the special gh-pages branch (even though now any branch can be used to deploy a website).

Websites for R packages built with {pkgdown} have become a de-facto standard over the last few years. Many R packages build their site during Continuous Integration (CI) runs, pushing the assets to the special gh-pages branch (even though now any branch can be used to deploy a website).

I wanted to try out the new fromJSON() that allows dynamic build matrices in GitHub Actions for quite some time now. Today was the day.

I wanted to try out the new fromJSON() that allows dynamic build matrices in GitHub Actions for quite some time now. Today was the day.

We are on the lookout for a DevOps System Engineer. You are familiar with Linux, Docker, Git, CI/CD and Ansible. We offer interesting projects around the R ecosystem and a lot of freedom. Some on-site time will be required, but a lot of remote work is possible as well. ...

We are on the lookout for a DevOps System Engineer. You are familiar with Linux, Docker, Git, CI/CD and Ansible. We offer interesting projects around the R ecosystem and a lot of freedom. Some on-site time will be required, but a lot of remote work is possible as well. ...

When committing to a Git repository related to my consulting work, it’s very important for me to use my company e-mail address, [email protected] . Not so much for my open-source work – for this I prefer other addresses, like [email protected] . (For example, Travis CI sends notification ...

When committing to a Git repository related to my consulting work, it’s very important for me to use my company e-mail address, [email protected] . Not so much for my open-source work – for this I prefer other addresses, like [email protected] . (For example, Travis CI sends notification ...

Relational databases are a very powerful tool for analyzing and manipulating data. However, many modeling workflows require a great deal of time and effort for wrangling data from databases into a flat data frame or table format. Only then the actual data analysis can start.

Relational databases are a very powerful tool for analyzing and manipulating data. However, many modeling workflows require a great deal of time and effort for wrangling data from databases into a flat data frame or table format. Only then the actual data analysis can start.