Sublime Text is pretty great.
Let’s start at the beginning.
Why would my primary editing tool not be vim? My background is as a biologist, spending way to many years in grad school. My first prog...
I was returning to a long-term project I’ve been working on - a package for caching HTTP requests in R called vcr, a port of the Ruby gem vcr - when you do that thing you do when you are porting a ...
The problem
The R community has a package distribution thing called CRAN just like Ruby has Rubygems, and Python has Pypi, etc. On all packages on CRAN, the CRAN maintainers run checks on each pac...
I wrote about Crossref clients back nearly two years ago on this blog: Crossref programmatic clients.
Since it’s been a while, it seems worth talking again about the the many ways to work programm...
If you maintain an R package, or even use R packages, you may have looked at CRAN check results. These are essentially the results of running R CMD CHECK on a package. They do these for each packag...