Tidy DataFrames but not Tibbles

A while ago (2019 seems so long ago now) I started working on something I thought was interesting but which never really got any traction. It has potential once more, so it’s about time I wrote up what it does and why I think it’s a useful idea. I’m going to talk about using the {dplyr} package on some data with rows and columns, but we’re not talking about data.frames or tibbles…

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{charcuterie} - What if Strings Were Iterable in R?

I’ve been using a lot of programming languages recently and they all have their quirks, differentiating features, and unique qualities, but one thing most of them have is that they handle strings as a collection of characters. R doesn’t, it has a “character” type which is 0 or more characters, and that’s what we call a “string”, but what if it did have iterable strings?

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rstats 

Let's Talk About the Weather

First, we'll need data!

A while ago I made some plots I really liked, but I never made a blog post about them. Then the data source stopped working and I couldn’t make them again. Now there’s a new data source, so it’s time for a post about some weather data!

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rstats 

Constructing HTML with Functional Functions

I heard that learning Elm is a good way to approach learning Haskell, so I gave it a go and was surprised early on about an approach to writing abstracted HTML. In this post I compare the way that R and Elm generate HTML and the differences between their approaches.

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Digits Dilemma

Another day, another short riddle to be solved with several programming languages! This one is nice because solving it doesn’t need a lot of code, but it uses some interesting aspects of evaluation.

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Iterative Square Root

I saw a toot celebrating a short, clean implementation of a square root finding algorithm and wanted to dig a bit deeper into how it works, with a diversion into some APL.

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rstats  APL  go 

I Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem

With a serious yak shaving deviation, I have a really short “cheat” solution to one of the featured Exercism problems. It’s been a really insightful journey getting to this point, and as always I’ve learned a lot along the way. The fact that I was able to understand the required changes and propose them is thanks to the open-source nature of programming languages.

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My First Julia Package - TriangulArt.jl

I’ve tried to get this same image transformation working at least three times now, but I can finally celebrate that it’s working! I’ve been (re-)learning Julia and I still love the language, so it was time to take my learning to the next level and actually build a package.

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julia 

Making Links a Little Less Hyper

Hyperlinks are great - they add value to a block of text by adding additional links out to more things to read - but they’re a distraction if you’re trying to read an in-depth piece of text and comprehend it linearly. Let’s hack the web!

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Advent of Array Elegance (AoC2023 Day 7)

I’m solving Advent of Code this year using a relaxed criteria compared to last year in that I’m allowing myself to use packages where they’re helpful, rather than strictly base R. Last year I re-solved half of the exercises using Rust which helped me learn a lot about Rust. This year I’m enamored with APL, and I wanted to share a particularly beautiful solution.

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APL  Kap  rstats  Uiua