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Some love for Base R. Part 4
Following on parts 1, 2 & 3—yes, a series—we arrive to part 4 revisiting Base R. See part 1 for the rationale, in case you’re wondering Whyyyy? A typical question going back to Base from the tidyverse: How do I join datasets? What do I use instead of bind_rows() and bind_cols()? Easy, rbind() and cbind(), […]
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Anyone using other than RStudio?
I asked both in Mastodon and Twitter “Anyone using other than #RStudio as their main #rstats IDE?” and—knowing that some programmers are literal and would probably reply ‘Yes’—I added “What is it?” Of course I got a few replies like “I only have used RStudio” (Why reply?) or “I use RStudio but in docker containers” […]
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Some love for Base R. Part 3
It seems a few people have found useful the reminders of base-R functionality covered in “Some love for Base R” Part 1 and Part 2. So I will keep on mentioning a few bits and pieces that you may find handy when going back to Base or even visiting it for the first time. A […]
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Some love for Base R. Part 2
Where were we? Giving some love to base-R and putting together the idea that it is possible to write R very clearly when using base. Two sets of typical issues: Subsetting rows and columns When running analyses we often want to work on a subset of all cases (rows) or variables (columns). People are used […]
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Some love for Base R. Part 1
For a long time it has bothered me when people look down at base-R (meaning the set of functions that comes in a default installation), as it were a lesser version of the language when compared to the tidyverse set of functions or data.table or whatever. I think part of this situation is due to […]