Posts tagged: r
2023-06-08Using Quarto and {officer} for semi-automating PowerPoint slides

I’m working on a project where one of the outputs is a deck of Microsoft
PowerPoint slides that act as a reference guide1. Outside of contents,
introductory and annex slides the bulk of the slides follow the same format
with a simple table providing metadata about a suite of around 90 indicators.
Using the gtcars
dataset
I’ll demonstrate how I’ve used Quarto and the
{officer}
package to automate some
of the workflow.
2023-05-01Refactoring and improving {tidyods}

Last summer I started
the development of {tidyods}
, an
R package for reading cells in ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet) files, and
effectively a {tidyxl}
equivalent for
ODS files. After developing the first iteration of the package in June I left
it alone, but I’ve recently revisited the package and refactored the code which
has improved performance.
2023-04-15Beep... boop... boot, booting the narrowbotr off Twitter

Back in November after the various developments with Twitter, I worked out how to get my Twitter bot to run on Mastodon. Since the Twitter takeover there have been various announcements from the new owner and official Twitter accounts about free access to the Twitter API being suspended, although these have usually come and gone without said suspension happening.
2022-11-14Switching the narrowbotr to Mastodon

2022-08-31Calculating energy costs

2022-06-12Introducing tidyods

2021-05-12How much is that meeting in the window?

2021-01-17Making aRt

2021-01-10Planning our Twitter walk

2021-01-03Let's go for a walk

2020-11-21Prompt-moting a custom R prompt
2020-10-14Virtual Gongoozling

2020-06-26The interplanetary birthday express

2020-05-25The Tidyvision Song Contest: Part Deux

2020-05-23The Tidyvision Song Contest

2020-04-25When's the case for case_when() ?

2020-04-12Automating the COVID19 PDF scraping
2020-04-10Scraping Google's COVID-19 mobility report PDFs
