R for machine learning and other stuff
One of the best things about R is that there is a never-ending stream of new short textbooks being written. Most of these are now written using the neat bookdown…
Installing R on Ubuntu 20.04: still too damn difficult
Here's a whiny post on annoying R features. I love R and all, but it's obnoxious to install. Not only does it take a long time to compile so many…
Trying out tidymodels package
If you want to train machine learning models, R offers thousands of packages to try out. However, most of these are written by random students and academics, so they are…
2 years of bugged screenshotting in Mint / Cinnamon
Open source tends to get into these sorts of situations... https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=202909 https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/3981 https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1620318 The workaround is to do this: Command: sh -c 'sleep 0.1; gnome-screenshot -a' I think what it…
Regression Modeling Strategies (2nd ed.) – Frank Harrell (review)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10753824-regression-modeling-strategies I heard some good things about this book, and some of it is good. Surely, the general approach outlined in the introduction is pretty sound. He sets up the…
Do you hate Python’s range() and want to use R’s seq()?
I do. So I implemented R's function in Python. I wrote a bunch of tests for this for most uses I could think of and they all work. Except the…
Do music genres exist? An outline of an empirical approach
I don't have time to do this project right now. However, since I gathered a bunch of relevant resources that I don't want to have to re-find, I will write…
Renaming functions in R packages using roxygen2
Naming things in programming is hard. I can see 2 reasons for this. 1) It is hard to pick a name you won't want to change later. With large projects,…
PSA: bugfix for the scoreIrt function in psych package, you should re-do your analyses!
I was working on a study and while doing so, I updated all my R packages. To my surprise, this changed the results in my analysis to a degree that…
Installing the latest version of R on Ubuntu/Mint
I wrote about this before, but since this is a frequent problem and my last post wasn't brief, here's a shorter version. The primary way to install software in Linux…
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