Learning Linux - the wrong way

how not to do it

Posted on November 7, 2019

I’ve dabbled with Linux a few times over the years - mainly on expired laptops that have given up the ghost (Win XP), but never stuck at it. Simply, it was too much hassle to try to get to grips with , in the limited time outside work (hah -... [Read More]

data.table by a dummy

very brief intro notes

Posted on June 30, 2019

I like dplyr I’ve used data.table in the past, though didn’t persevere with it enough. My happy safe space is dplyr & ggplot2. I love these packages and use them almost every time I use R. Every so often , I see mentions of cool data.table features and it... [Read More]

runcharter

A thing what I built

Posted on April 30, 2019

Waffle I didn’t write a blog post in March, because I was busy doing other stuff, but it turns out no one noticed, or maybe they did, and simply didn’t care. Well, I care, because it brought my streak of 20 successive monthly blog posts to an end. Which... [Read More]

A wee look at group_map and group_split in dplyr

Posted on February 28, 2019

Dplyr 0.8.0 launched recently, which you probably already know, but just in case you missed it.. Two new functions have been catching my eye : group_map and group_split. The aim of this post - take a first look at these and try and get a new blog post up on... [Read More]

gganimation for the nation

gganimate hits CRAN

Posted on January 6, 2019

At the NHS_R conference back in October, I showed a few ways of building animations using gifski - I also wrote up the method I used in an earlier post right here. And, the source code for all this stuff is available from my github here. However -... [Read More]

Twins on the up

Posted on December 13, 2018

Are multiple births on the increase? My twin boys turned 5 years old today. Wow, time flies. Life is never dull, because twins are still seen as something of a novelty, so wherever we go, we find ourselves in conversation with strangers, who are intrigued by the whole thing.... [Read More]

Automatic (slides) for the people

Posted on November 30, 2018

Creating and saving multiple plots to Powerpoint At the NHS R conference we delivered a session on animating patient flow. This started with a single plot showing all patient movements, and then I demonstrated the ability to create a faceted plot. But, with many different areas, and a small... [Read More]

Thoughts on the NHS-R conference

Posted on October 31, 2018

It’s been a few weeks since the first NHS-R conference was held in Birmingham. I co-presented a couple of workshops with Neil Pettinger on visualising patient flow, covering the following importing from Excel (and connecting to SQL Server) dplyr ggplot2 & plotly ... [Read More]

Where am I?

Notes on the here package

Posted on September 23, 2018

The here package is pretty simple ( only 3 functions), but I keep messing things up when I try to create paths with it, so this is my aide-memoire. It might be useful for others too. Here finds the root of your current folder / working directory. If you use... [Read More]