['Programmer', 'Computer nerd', 'Unix enthusiast'];

🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, pyth...

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R package to calculate sun position, sunrise, sunset, solar noon and twilight - adokter/suntools

GitHub Actions for the R community. Contribute to r-lib/actions development by creating an account on GitHub.

We had many submissions to the Posit 2025 Table Contest and this post will show you the winners, the special prize recipients, and the runners up!

Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.

Figuratively. More likely you'll get a stern talking to.

TL;DR: Set expiry dates for your metrics!

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skip_if() and skip_if_not() allow you to skip tests, immediately concluding a test_that() block without executing any further expectations. This allows you to skip a test without failure, if for some ...

Need to create and store an object quickly, use this trick

A Conversation With a Chatbot About a Graph How much does AI know about understanding and producing graphs? I don’t...

An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve wo…

Create tree structures from hierarchical data, and traverse the tree in various orders. Aggregate, cumulate, print, plot, convert to and from data.frame and more. Useful for decision trees, machine le...

Also, most data cleaning articles suck

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

Friends don't let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad. - GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain ty...

CRAN task views aim to provide guidance which packages on CRAN are relevant for tasks related to a certain topic. They give a brief overview of the included packages which can also be automatically in...

The original version of my guide to color tools. I published an updated version in 2019.

In this post, we’ll look at the basics of git stash, how to create and use Git stashes, why you’d want to use stashes in the first place, and other relevant things to know about git stash because mayb...

The story of ggpacman. Or how to build a useless but fun R package to make a GIF of the game Pac-Man.