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learning python

When you are exploring a far off land and only know a tiny bit of the language they speak there, you always carry a little dictionary with commonly used phrases translated…

rowwise %>% mean

When you have data from a survey, the responses for each item are most often listed in different variables. Generally you have to average across the items to get a mean…

error bars on plots

Repurposing this APA figures post as a IDHTG (I don’t have to google) post.

colours that R knows

I have been working through the ggplot R Advent calendar by Kiirsti Owen with some lovely RLadies friends and we got up to Day 15 where we started controlling colours in…

git hints

I am getting pretty good at avoiding git merge conflicts by always remembering to pull before I push when using github. But the terminal in RStudio has been giving me this…

using lists in R

One of my goals while on long service leave is to learn some new R things that have been on my radar for a while… the first of these is purrr. The purrr package allows you…

my favourite things about R

I am prepping a talk for R-Ladies Sydney about my favourite R things, including the packages and functions that end up in every script I write.

PAT for GitHub

I have been avoiding setting up a Personal Access Token to authenticate my github account for a while because it seemed complicated. Never fear Happy Git with R and usethis()…

cleaning penguins with the janitor package

The janitor package by Sam Firke contains probably my FAVOURITE R function: clean_names().