Acquiring full text articles
fulltext is an R package I maintain to obtain full text versions of research articles
for text mining.
It’s a hard problem, with a spaghetti web of code. One of the h...
I was listening to a Bike Shed podcast episode 189, “It’s Gonna Work, Definitely, No Problems Whatsoever”, and starting at 27:44 there was a conversation about exception handling. Specifically it w...
In doing a number of ports of Ruby gems to R (vcr, webmockr), I’ve noticed a few differences between the languages that are fun to dive into, at least for me.
monkey patching
Ruby has a nice thin...
Let’s talk about trailing commas (aka: “final commas”, “dangling commas”). Trailing commas refers to a comma at the end of a series of values in an array or array like object, leaving an essentiall...
I’m sure there’s already a way to do this, but here goes. OR maybe this is an
anti-pattern. Either way, this is me, asking the stupid question.
I ran into this a few hours ago:
Sys.unsetenv("ENT...