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...
The longer you do anything, the more preferences you may develop for that thing. One of these things is making R packages.
One preference I’ve developed is in limiting package dependencies - or at...