** Introduction When working with multiple shell windows, some on a local machine and others on remote, wouldn't it be nice if you could instantly tell which was which just by …

Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code is an open-source multipurpose code editor. It has many useful built in features, but becomes extremely powerful when you use plugins. I believe for …

Function with arbitrary arguments using ellipsis (...) Let's define a function which takes in arbitrary arguments and evaluates an expression on those arguments: eval_expres <- function(expres, ...){ #this part gets all the …

If you're building a package in R it's highly likely that you'll have to eventually rely on functions from external packages (unless you enjoy rebuilding the wheel, or can't/don't …

The problem: losing data The dplyr package has some very useful tools for creating summaries of your data through functions like dplyr::count(), as well as the more powerful dplyr …

Turn DOCX files into JSON Do you have some Microsoft Word documents in DOCX format, but for some reason you'd like to work with JSON files? Well you are in …

If you want to get something done in your shell but don't want to scour through a whole man page looking for the right combination of options, tldr might have …

Code review is easiest when the changes offered by a head branch onto a base branch are focussed on a single purpose of change. When they are not, the diff …

While I'm pretty comfortable with basic shell commands, I like the convenience of features like syntax highlighting. Lately I've discovered a few replacements for common shell commands that add an …

Table of contents: Brief introduction to profiling, and why we might want to do it Methods to measure function speed/performance Ways to generate function profiles Visualizing and analaysing profiles …