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Assignment Conversion
The R language has two common methods of assignment. The = and <- binary operators are semantically equivalent in most cases, so …
Jul 25, 2016
covr - Test Coverage for R Packages
Being primarily a statistical language R lacks a number of common code analysis tools available for languages used more often for …
May 20, 2015
Wercker and Rocker: Finally Performant Continuous Integration for R
The Problem Continuous Integration is a great technique for both developers, contributers and users to ensure that the development …
Apr 28, 2015
How does covr work anyway?
Since releasing covr I have gotten a couple of requests to explain how it works. This post is adapted from a vignette I wrote to try …
Jan 22, 2015
Responsive Remote Completion
I have been using remote completion from remote boxes for a long time, as it is available in both zsh and bash. However because …
Apr 23, 2014
ZSH global aliases
Just a short post about two useful global aliases I created. ZSH global aliases are basically variables which are expanded before the …
Feb 12, 2014
Stylish reports with Knitr and Bootstrap
I am pleased to announce my project for generating styled, dynamic html reports knitr_bootstrap. Here is an example of a report. I have …
Mar 28, 2013
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