The setup The RStudio notebook is a great interactive tool to build a statistical report. Being able to see statistics and graphs right on the fly probably has saved me countless hours, especially when building complex reports. However, one thing that has always bothered me was the way tables are ...

This is my take on an R style guide. As such, this is going to be a very long post (long enough to warrant a table of content). Still, I hope it - or at least some parts of it - are useful to some people out there. Another guide ...

Motivation Column operations Add Modify Remove Benchmark Summary Motivation The dplyr functions select and mutate nowadays are commonly applied to perform data.frame column operations, frequently combined with magrittrs forward %__% pipe. While working well interactively, however, these methods often would require additional checking if used in “serious” code, for example, ...

Motivation The dplyr functions select and mutate nowadays are commonly applied to perform data.frame column operations, frequently combined with magrittrs forward %__% pipe. While working well interactively, however, these methods often would require additional checking if used in “serious” code, for example, to catch column name clashes. In principle, the ...

Producing readable R code is of great importance, especially if there is a chance that you will share your code with people other than your future self. The now widely used magrittr pipe operator and dplyr tools are great frameworks for this purpose. However, if you want to keep your ...

Recently managed to put up my new package container on CRAN (and finally have a compelling reason to start an R-blog …). This package provides some common container data structures deque, set and dict (resembling Pythons dict type), with typical member functions to insert, delete and access container elements. If you ...