Zoe Locke writes about the R programming ecosystem, covering package development, testing, data manipulation, and tips for R users at all levels. Her posts include practical advice, tutorials, and insights for R developers and data scientists.
18 articles from this blog
A curated list of gift ideas for R programming enthusiasts, including books, cheatsheets, hex logos, art, and conference tickets.
Introduces covrpage, an R package for generating detailed unit test summary reports to build trust and show testing completeness in R packages.
A technical tutorial on using the R plotly package to create interactive Gantt charts for project planning, specifically for a PhD thesis.
Introduces the 'namer' R package for automatically labeling unnamed R Markdown chunks to improve debugging and cache management.
A guide to essential R packages for setting up, running, and assessing unit tests in R package development, focusing on testthat and related tools.
A dashboard for R package maintainers to track their submissions to CRAN, detailing its creation and deployment.
A technical guide on extending the googleway package's google_distance() function in R to handle multiple inputs, cache API calls, and manage errors efficiently.
A data analyst compares Tidyverse's select(ends_with()) in R to achieving similar column filtering in M/Power Query for Power BI/Excel data processing.
Explains how to use Microsoft R Client for multi-threaded parallel computing to speed up R calculations beyond vanilla R's single-threaded limits.
A guide to using functions and packages in R for data analysis, covering installation, recommended packages, and data manipulation tools.
Explores Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB's features and benefits for data scientists, focusing on its schemaless design and suitability for IoT and modern applications.
An introduction to R objects, covering variables, vectors, and data storage for data manipulation and analysis.
A tutorial on creating a glass-shattering animation in R using the gganimate package to announce a monthly data science book giveaway winner.
A tutorial on R programming basics, covering mathematical, comparison, and logical operators for data manipulation.
Explains how to standardize and add emojis to GitHub issue labels across multiple repositories using GitHub's API and the R 'gh' package.
A team shares their diverse experiences attending and presenting at the SatRdays Cardiff conference for R programming language users.
An introduction to using Tidyverse data manipulation concepts in Python, focusing on the Dplython package as an alternative to pandas.
A data scientist shares tips on automating a monthly book giveaway using R, including package organization and image manipulation with the magick package.
