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πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» "Chaotic Good Developer" at @Thinkr_FR πŸ¦Ήβ€β™€οΈ Long-distance runner πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ Vegan 🌱 Metalhead 🀘Here to complain about computers πŸ’»
Aug 7, 2020 β€’ 39 tweets β€’ 16 min read
Taylor Swift as #RStats hex, a thread ‡️
Nov 30, 2018 β€’ 4 tweets β€’ 2 min read
Soon in all your Shiny Apps:
#RStats #RShiny Ever wanted an 8-bit dataTable?
Nov 26, 2018 β€’ 24 tweets β€’ 7 min read
#NowReading β€” Writing #RStats Extensions.
colinfay.me/writing-r-exte… [Notes on terminology]
"A package is not a library."
Library refers to:
- "A directory into which packages are installed"
- "That used by the operating system, as a shared, dynamic or static library or (especially on Windows) a DLL, where the second L stands for β€˜library’."
Aug 8, 2018 β€’ 9 tweets β€’ 4 min read
#RStats β€” What's up CRAN?

In the past 7 months:

πŸ†• 1178 new πŸ“¦

πŸ†“ 18 unarchived πŸ“¦

⏹ 493 archived πŸ“¦ At the end of June, there were around 12500 πŸ“¦ on the CRAN
Jul 25, 2018 β€’ 14 tweets β€’ 11 min read
#NowWatching β€” @TrestleJeff, talking about {plumber} πŸ› βš™οΈregister.gotowebinar.com/register/55312…
#RStats #RStudio #Webinar πŸ’¬ "If you're aiming at humans only, you can build a shiny app. If you want machines to access your data, build an API"

πŸ’¬ "And remember that any other language can access your R API. You're opening a lot of doors."

#RStats
Jul 10, 2018 β€’ 20 tweets β€’ 6 min read
[Thread #RStats #Programming ]
Some important points taken from "Object-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming and R", by John M. Chambers
arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3531.… An article about what is Functional Programming (FP), and how does it differ from Object Oriented Programming (OOP) ?
Note that both these paradigms are used in R, and interact with each others.
Jun 11, 2018 β€’ 16 tweets β€’ 7 min read
[Thread]
Why do we use arrow `<-` instead of equal `=` for assignment in #RStats : It’s an historical choice: R comes from S, which used <- for assignment. S uses `<-` partly because it is inspired by APL, which had the ← operator for assignment, as it was developed for this keyboard, which has a key for arrow :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(prog…
May 12, 2018 β€’ 8 tweets β€’ 3 min read
Current status: looking for more memes to put in my @erum2018 talk.
#RStats #eRum2018 So far, I've got: