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James Laird-Smith

@jls_datascience

Data Scientist at the @BankofEngland. Previously at the @FinancialTimes and University of Cape Town. 🩴🇿🇦

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Friends who use #rstats: if somebody was interested in making Quarto available from within one's organisation (there's a whole process), what would be an appropriate version to start out with? JJ Allaire Charles Teague Carlos Scheidegger Christophe Dervieux

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Today's Friday #rstats fun: I discovered the (experimental) `tree()` function in the lobstr package for the pretty-printing of lists. So much cleaner than `str()`! 😍🗒️ Thanks Nick Strayer!

Today's Friday #rstats fun: I discovered the (experimental) `tree()` function in the lobstr package for the pretty-printing of lists. So much cleaner than `str()`! 😍🗒️ Thanks <a href="/NicholasStrayer/">Nick Strayer</a>!
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Have you ever wanted to generate random but readable strings? Like for files or folders? Today's Friday #rstats fun is thanks to Rich FitzJohn for the ids package📦 and its wonderful `adjective_animal()` 😻function.

Have you ever wanted to generate random but readable strings? Like for files or folders? Today's Friday #rstats fun is thanks to <a href="/rgfitzjohn/">Rich FitzJohn</a> for the ids package📦 and its wonderful `adjective_animal()` 😻function.
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After a hard day of wrangling data from APIs, I'm very seriously considering naming my first child `tidyr::unnest_wider()`. I mean, just look how easy it makes converting highly nested JSON into a tidy data frame?! 🤩 Friday #rstats fun!

After a hard day of wrangling data from APIs, I'm very seriously considering naming my first child `tidyr::unnest_wider()`. I mean, just look how easy it makes converting highly nested JSON into a tidy data frame?! 🤩 Friday #rstats fun!
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Is it wrong that, when the NYT crossword clue is "something to stub", my first thought is 'function' and not 'toe'? 😅 #rstats

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At 5pm (BST) on Thursday I'm going to be a guest on Posit PBC's Data Science Hangout speaking about the work I do for the Bank of England and supporting its 1000 R users. #rstats There's no need to register, you can join the stream using this link: pos.it/dsh

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📢 November Webinar 📢 We are very excited to announce that the incredible James Laird-Smith will be presenting a ‘Customising your R Experience’ webinar on Wednesday 29th November 2023! Click here to register: nhsrcommunity.com/events/novembe… #NHSr #RStats #DataScience #NHSRCommunity

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This Wednesday (Nov 29th) I'm excited to be giving a webinar to the NHS-R Community on "Customising your R experience"! It's going to be at 1pm GMT. Registration link is here, but it will also be recorded. #rstats nhsrcommunity.com/events/novembe…

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#rstats friends, I have a question: given that I have some built R package on disk, what is the blessed/easiest way can I (programmatically) check if it's in source or binary format? Beyond just checking the file extension.

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Can anyone explain why Kamala Harris hasn't download my R package from CRAN yet? I understand she's on the campaign trail, but all she needs is an internet connection. Technical difficulties? #rstats

Can anyone explain why Kamala Harris hasn't download my R package from CRAN yet? I understand she's on the campaign trail, but all she needs is an internet connection. Technical difficulties? #rstats