Author Yihui Xie explains his decision to stop creating hex stickers for R packages, favoring minimal ASCII art instead to reduce visual clutter and package size.
The author discusses updates to gssrdoc, an R package that provides integrated help documentation for the General Social Survey (GSS) dataset.
Introducing the {RKaggle} R package for downloading Kaggle datasets directly into the R console, covering installation and basic usage.
Announces 9 new free and paid books added to the Big Book of R collection, covering data science, visualization, and package development.
A guide to creating and autoloading a custom PHP package locally using Composer, without publishing it to Packagist first.
A guide to writing and publishing JavaScript packages that work in both browser and Node.js environments, covering module patterns and setup.
A curated list of gift ideas for R programming enthusiasts, including books, cheatsheets, hex logos, art, and conference tickets.
Introduces covrpage, an R package for generating detailed unit test summary reports to build trust and show testing completeness in R packages.
A data scientist shares tips on automating a monthly book giveaway using R, including package organization and image manipulation with the magick package.
The author discusses a potential bug or design quirk in the 'leaps' R package related to how forward/backward selection interacts with its exhaustive search preprocessing.
A developer explains how to refactor repetitive Julia code for a Twitter API package using metaprogramming techniques to reduce lines and improve maintainability.
A practical guide to creating a minimal, functional R package from scratch to streamline code reuse and save development time.
A guide to printing R help files directly in the console or within knitr documents using a custom function from the tools package.
A developer shares a humorous and insightful experience debugging an R package for the Adobe API, focusing on error handling and JSON parsing.
