Unless you are living under a rock, you have heard Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. Not everyone is happy with Microsoft's move. Hence, quite a few open source projects started to move away from GitHub. This move certainly is in favour of GitLab. GitHub imports at GitLab. Installing R packages from…
On Windows OS, it is a known fact that exporting high quality graphics in RStudio is not an easy thing. If you try to use "Save as Image" in RStudio, you will see that result is far from useable. Here is an example. If you are using ggplot2…
Here is a tip. It is always a good idea to keep your packages updated. I learned it the hard way. I was required to setup a new R Server installation for a client and install our custom written time series analysis and forecasting package onto this brand new shiny…
When you start as a fresh data analyst or data scientist, you have almost no idea what you are doing. Your thoughts are not formed properly. You do what you are told and expect that your results will somehow overlap with the business outcomes. When you read articles online, they…
When I started developing R packages, I did not care much whether they would build with no errors, no warnings and no notes. I hardly knew about Build & Reload and Check in RStudio. I am not going to lie. I never finished reading Hadley Wickham's R Packages book (I…
I have always wanted create a logo for myself. Though, I never had any reason to design one. Now that I am trying to keep a blog for my silly ideas, I decided to design one. I wanted something that would be simple, but have some sort of connection to…