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How do you iterate a vector?

purrr
constructive
reduce
accumulate
loop
iteration
What functions can you use to replace a loop?
Sep 9, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

How can you use the *frame functions from the package tibble?

dplyr
constructive
tibble
enframe
deframe
nested
In which case can you use enframe and deframe?
Aug 28, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

What are the different ways of summing a variable?

dplyr
constructive
groups
reframe
summarise
count
How can you summarise a tibble?
Aug 23, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

What are the use cases for using nested data over packed data?

nest
unnest
pack
unpack
tidyr
jsonlite
When should you use packed data instead of nested data, and vice versa?
Jun 3, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

What is the difference between (un)packing and (un)nesting a tibble?

nest
unnest
pack
unpack
tidyr
json
constructive
Does a nested tibble have the same structure as a packed tibble?
May 30, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

How to filter values in a nested tibble without using filter() from dplyr?

dplyr
arrow
nested
purrr
constructive
How to filter values in a nested tibble?
May 20, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

How to replace some non-available values in a vector with values coming from another vector?

dplyr
coalesce
if_else
is.na
How to replace some non-available values in a vector with values coming from another vector?
May 10, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

Use rlang and glue syntax to create new variables

rlang
glue
sym
englue
name-injection
curly-curly
dyn-dots
indirection
How can you create, transform and filter several variables in a function by using the glue syntax and rlang?
Mar 29, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

Analyse vector sequences

rle
How can you easily analyse vector sequences in base R?
Mar 28, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

Read dirty tab-separated CSV files

readr
read_delim
read_fwf
tab
CSV
What function could be used to read tab-separated CSV files with values containing a tab?
Jan 15, 2024
Layal Christine Lettry

Switch from openxlsx to openxlsx2

openxlsx
openxlsx2
What are the main differences between openxlsx and openxlsx2?
Nov 15, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry

Website Traffic Metrics with Plausible Analytics

Use Plausible Analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics
Plausible Analytics
plausible
quarto
hugo
website traffic metrics
Google Analytics
How can you monitor your website statistics for your Hugo and Quarto websites?
Nov 2, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry

Perform transformations on several variables with .env and .data pronouns

rlang
pronouns
magrittr
data-masking
Looping through all the variables in a data frame with the .env and .data pronouns
Oct 15, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry

Perform transformations on several variables with dplyr::across() and dplyr::pick()

dplyr
across
pick
Transforming many variables quickly and easily with just one line of code
Oct 13, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry

Extract only stable functions from a tidyverse package

tidyverse
now
lifecycle
Exploring the now package to write code without any obsolete functions
Oct 12, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry

Progress bars

cli
purrr
walk
progress
Keeping track of the code’s progress
Oct 12, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry

Detect date and time variables with openxlsx

openxlsx
date
datetime
Discovering solutions to the challenge of accurate date and time variable detection in Excel data with R
Oct 8, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry

Rename variables in a data frame using an external lookup table

unquote-splice
tidy evaluation
rename
any_of
Addressing the challenge of renaming multiple variables through an external lookup table using tidy evaluation techniques
Oct 8, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry

Working with openxlsx

The package openxlsx.demo explained in 10 steps
openxlsx
openxlsx.demo
Excel
R
How can you create exceptional workbooks with openxlsx in R?
Apr 2, 2023
Layal Christine Lettry
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