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   by phillc73 6y ago

   I don't want to say that the Tidyverse is inferior, because it's not and it works for a lot of people. Hadley will also know much more about R and always be a better programmer than me. However, there are other tools which predate
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   by phillc73 6y ago

   The pipe operator in R also sort of does my head in. I learned R in a way that everything went right to left. The variable on the left was manipulated by whatever (functions or other code) on the right. The pipe operator reverses that flow,
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   by phillc73 6y ago

   I must admit to not really understanding the TidyVerse attraction, or why I should be doing "tidy data evaluation", rather than using base R. If I want to use an advanced data manipulation library, I'd typically reach for dat
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   by phillc73 6y ago

   The author doesn't want a plain shirt. He wants one without stripes. This includes harlequin shirts, shirts with logos, shirts with pictures, tie die shirts. All good, as long as they don't have stripes.
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   by phillc73 6y ago

   Another is the BUMFISH (and variations) pre-landing check: Breaks (Check Breaks for Pressure) Undercarriage( Down and Locked) Mixture (fully rich) Fuel (Pump ON, Fullest Tank) Instruments (For Night Flying, DI Align to Compass, Suction Gaug
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   by phillc73 6y ago

   Yes. I could have listed all the good points, but didn't apart from stability. The negatives are only such if they're important to you. If you don't have more than 50 cards visible, no problem. If you don't need a good G
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   by phillc73 6y ago

   I recently finished reading Pete Brown's Man Walks Into A Pub: A Sociable History of Beer, which is a good and quite humorous introduction to the history of beer in Great Britain. I'd recommend it to anyone taking an initial inter
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   by phillc73 6y ago

   We use this software extensively at my place of employment and have done so for a few years. In fact, apart from ad-hoc spreadsheets with pretty coloured rows to make pseudo Gantt charts and the software developers using Gitlab issues, this
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   by phillc73 6y ago

   Gitlab also has kanban boards, which I really like. Sometimes I wish I could just use the kanban boards to manage tasks, without having all the associated software development tools in the UI. Or maybe, a better idea would be the ability to
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    by phillc73 6y ago

    Or the R package for Allele-specific DNA Copy Number Profiling https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/falcon/index.html
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    I'm really pleased to see you're using Pander[1] in your tool chain. I think this is one of the most useful literate programming tools in the R ecosystem. Although, having read Part 6 (briefly), it looks like you might only be usi
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    Not solutions, but two potential workarounds. Is it possible to open source the app itself and then distribute via F-Droid?[1] Can you provide your customers with a direct apk download? Although, you will then need to educate your customers
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    HN discussion from 2016 about DRAKON: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12638032
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    I absolutely agree. I have a 5 year old at home due to closed kindergarten. Both my wife and I are supposed to be working from home for the next few weeks and without our garden I think we'd be off the wall by now. Sending the lad outs
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    Great information, thanks. I do totally agree about documentation for R libraries. It can be very hit and miss.
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    There are several functions in base R for differentiation, integration, solving system of equations, etc. E.g. `solve`, `stats::D`, `stats::deriv`, `stats::integrate`, `stats::numericDeriv`. R package Deriv for symbolic differentiation, it
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    I'm an R and sometimes Julia user, although not Python. Can you offer some examples of how Mathematica surpasses open source alternatives in those areas you've mentioned?
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    We (the company/department I work in) setup Riot.im for chat/room based communication while everyone works remotely. As part of this, we added the Jitsi add-in for conference calls. At the end of day one I can say that Jitsi audio
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    I think most dairy cows are Holstein-Friesian, so black and white (with some regressive red and white, although Guernsey are also usually red and white). Brown dairy cows (Swiss, Jersey) are the minority of the milking population.
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    Monetdb-Lite disappeared from CRAN and after some investigation, it appears that the development team is now focused on a new product, DuckDB[1] [1] https://github.com/MonetDB/MonetDBLite-R/issues/38#issuecomm
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    DuckDB perhaps[1]: https://www.duckdb.org [1] I say "perhaps" because I've only just started using it having migrated from MonetDB, but have no experience of alternatives like Presto.
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    Oddly that page doesn't list my favourite BBC open source project, Ingex[1][2][3], which is a broad set of tools supporting tapeless recording. The related bmxlib[4], a suite of utilities for dealing with MXF files, also doesn't m
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    Just like a Commodore 64.
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    Then, buy the biggest coal mining companies and shut them down (or convert to renewables). In 2016, Australia was the world's biggest net coal exporter[1] with 32% of global exports and the fourth highest producer. As far as I know, al
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    The image of the squirrels in the article is from Beatrix Potter's Squirrel Nutkin. I'd be really surprised (pleasantly though) if the publishers of something so famous had allowed the images to become public domain.
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    Thought it also worth mentioning the Julia package, Query.jl, which supports LINQ-like syntax: https://github.com/queryverse/Query.jl/blob/master/README.md http://www.queryverse.org/Query
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    My biggest beef with DDG is that they do not do worldwide results very well. Their results are overwhelmingly US centric. As an example.... I search on DDG, "buy cricket equipment near me". I am not behind a VPN and whatsmyip corr
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    cl-ana, Common Lisp data analysis library with emphasis on modularity and conceptual clarity - https://github.com/ghollisjr/cl-ana numcl, a numpy clone in Common Lisp - https://github.com/numcl/nu
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    by phillc73 7y ago

    I've not used diskframe.com, but from experience can recommend the 'fst'[1] file format with 'fsttable'[2] for reading on disk data tables. [1] https://github.com/fstpackage/fst [2] https:&#x2
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    The ski industry’s battle with climate change(theguardian.com)

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