In R it has always been incorrect to call order() on a data.frame. Such a call doesn’t return a sort-order of the rows, and previously did not return an error. For example. d <- data.frame( x = c(2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 1), y = 6:1) knitr::kable(d) x y 2 […]
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For the next version of the R package wrapr we are going to be removing a number of under-used functions/methods and classes. This update will likely happen in March 2020, and is the start of the wrapr 2.* series. Most of the items being removed are different abstractions for helping […]
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We’ve been getting some good uptake on our piping in R article announcement. The article is necessarily a bit technical. But one of its key points comes from the observation that piping into names is a special opportunity to give general objects the following personality quiz: “If you were an […]
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We forgot to say: R Journal Volume 10/2, December 2018 is out! A huge thanks to the editors who work very hard to make this possible. And big “thank you” to the editors, referees, and journal for helping improve, and for including our note on pipes in R.
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