Tricks

• 2018/08/06 Dockerized Spacemacs on Windows
  I was talking the other day of setting Spacemacs on Windows with no privileges. Sometimes it’s not even possible to do so, but you have Cygwin/m... read more
  


• 2018/07/22 Back to Basics (Emacs + ESS + zsh + byobu)
  I think i’m a little bit “old school” or maybe sometimes you have to use the right tool for the task. Some time ago, i discovered I... read more
  


• 2018/05/29 My favourite snippets
  A hidden gem from Rstudio is snippets feature. A well known option in any other editor (Atom, VS Code, Notepad ++….) seems that for R people is... read more
  


• 2018/05/09 using inotify for long running R scripts
  Sometimes your Rscript takes a long time to run. Not for computation requirements but for the kind of processes involved, for instance when calling AP... read more
  


• 2017/11/20 Atom for R: keeping settings in sync
  Last week I was working on some projects involving Posix and R code. I tend to use Atom Editor for such code instead of Rstudio, and sometimes I think... read more
  


• 2017/10/16 Spanish Stopwords for tidytext package
  A clever friend of mine says: the main programming language, is not Java or Python but English. So, when you’re searching for help, you’ll... read more
  


• 2017/08/12 calculating date diffs per event with dplyr
  Sometimes you’d need to calculate rolling date diffs from a vector or a data frame when you’re manipulating repeated events from different... read more
  


• 2017/07/23 Processing mail using R
  After a long time seeking for R packages to connect to a remote mailbox (not Gmail), I’ve had to admit that there’s no such feature right now in R. Te... read more
  


• 2017/07/20 file.choose: empowering useRs
  Sometimes when sharing your analysis, via Rmarkdown or the brand new NoteBook, the data file is located at the user’s computer, making unusable the de... read more