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I also enjoyed the book and didn't make the connection to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five until I heard this, but I had also recently read that
I don't post on here usually (find me on Mastodon) but given that I'm actively seeking a new role, the more reach the better.
I keep trying to use R functions like table() and which() when I'm writing Python but those don't exist... until now
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I'm on the lookout for new opportunities to contribute to R tooling. If your org needs help developing/productionising an R pkg or R code, managing data access via db or API, or translating to/from R, let's discuss. All timezones supported. My services: jcarroll.com.au/page/services/
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All the targets code and explanation is in the tabset if you click the targets icon - it produces the same workflow as dbt and produces a similar database. Was there an aspect you thought could use more explanation?
This also inspired me to write up the seed-based post I've been meaning to write fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll...
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And takes a mere 16s to find the first of the seed values producing 'HELLO' and 'WORLD'
Thanks for the tips on setting the RNG and the chunked parallel search - works beautifully. My version: gist.github.com/jonocarroll/...
This post is nearing 10 years old now, and the RNG in more recent versions of R won't reproduce the exact seed-words, but was fun to explore: jcarroll.com.au/2016/05/30/s...
The power of choice is in full effect! How you can leverage GitLab to publish your next Quarto document online, how to bring key R functional paradigms to…
If you’ve read any of my past posts you know I like to program in several
different languages, some of which I like more than others. Sometimes a problem
calls for a particular language to be used, an...
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New post: Schotter Plots in R
https://jcarroll.com.au/2026/04/17/schotter-plots-in-r/
in which I reproduce a famous plot in R based on translating some Python code, itself transla...
The rfuns package is live on pypi (my very first python package) and includes python-native functions with the same name and functionality as many common base R functions; great for quickly doing something in the REPL, not intended for production use
