Today I Learned

Here you’ll find posts related to things I’ve learned recently.

Summarize logical vectors to calculate numeric summaries

til

data wrangling

logical vectors

summary statistics

Need proportion and count summaries from a logical vector? Use mean() and sum()

Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.

Use `base::dput()` to easily create and save objects

productivity

vim

testing

data wrangling

Need to create and store an object quickly, use this trick

Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.

Combine plots using `patchwork`

data visualization

Need to add two or more plots together? Use the patchwork package

Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.

Using `base::tempdir()` for temporary data storage

data wrangling

workflow

productivity

Need to store data in a place that’s not persistent, use a temporary directory

Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.

Calculating correlations with `corrr`

data analysis

exploratory analysis

data visualization

Use the corrr package to calculate and visualize correlations

Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.

Edit an older unpushed commit

git

GitHub

Use git rebase to edit previous commit messages

Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.

Find and replace in Vim

vim

neovim

productivity

Improving productivity by using Vim’s :substitute command

Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.