Around this time last year, I published an analysis of the speaker gender divide of all the South Wales tech/digital meetups I could find in 2017. Now that we’re well and truly in 2019, I was able to do the same for all of 2018’s events.* The short version… The good news: the divide has…
Are you looking for gift ideas for the R addicts in your life or the next guest speaker at your user group? Here are a few ideas, in four categories! Not all of them feature our company, promised. 😉 Learning and using R Is your dear one just starting to learn R? You might help…
Are you looking for gift ideas for the R addicts in your life or the next guest speaker at your user group? Here are a few ideas, in four categories! Not all of them feature our company, promised. 😉 Learning and using R Is your dear one just starting to learn R? You might help…
In this post, we shall explore the first R package that received Locke Data’s new support, covrpage by Jonathan Sidi! With this nifty package you can better communicate the unit testing completeness and goodness of your package! What’s covrpage? Trust is earned not inherited importedFrom. Now that you’ve built a cool package, you want potential…
In this post, we shall explore the first R package that received Locke Data’s new support, covrpage by Jonathan Sidi! With this nifty package you can better communicate the unit testing completeness and goodness of your package! What’s covrpage? Trust is earned not inherited importedFrom. Now that you’ve built a cool package, you want potential…
Something a little different today for a quick chat about my latest project and why I’m finding the plotly package so helpful! Are you like me and physically can’t function unless you’ve got a to do list in front of you? Well even if you’re not, imagine my pain while I’m wearing my non –…
Something a little different today for a quick chat about my latest project and why I’m finding the plotly package so helpful! Are you like me and physically can’t function unless you’ve got a to do list in front of you? Well even if you’re not, imagine my pain while I’m wearing my non –…
We’ve just released a sweet package to save you stress from the hassle of unnamed chunks in R Markdown! namer will name all your chunks, so you can quickly debug in future. More details in this post! Why name your R Markdown chunks? When writing R Markdown documents, be it a single report or a…
Testing your R package is crucial, and thankfully it only gets easier with time, thanks to experience… and awesome packages helping you setup and improve tests! In this post, we shall offer a roundup of packages for testing R packages, first in a section about general testing setup, and then in a section about testing…
The R community and the package ecosystem are awesome but it can be difficult to sustain your R packages when you only have so much free time. To make a stellar package you’ve got to keep on top of the issues, make great documentation, have that all important hex sticker, and generally have good quality…