Today I Learned
Here you’ll find posts related to things I’ve learned recently.
| Date | Title | Description |
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| Sep 1, 2025 | Notes: Using GitHub search | Learning more about GitHub’s search |
| Aug 23, 2025 | Notes: Using gganimate to animate plots | Learning more about data visualization animation from the ‘Getting Started’ vignette |
| Aug 3, 2025 | Notes from Rich Hickey’s talk Simple Made Easy | Learning more about software and system design |
| Feb 23, 2025 | Notes on customizing Neovim’s key bindings | Learning more about how to customize the R.nvim plugin while using LazyVim |
| Feb 15, 2025 | Notes on date and time data types in PostgreSQL | A scratchpad of concepts and code examples I collected while learning about the dates and times data types |
| Feb 1, 2025 | Notes on identifying explicit and implicit missing values | Highlights from the DSLC book club discussion of Chapter 18: Missing values from R4DS |
| Jan 27, 2025 | Notes on the use and management of GitHub projects | Learning how to take project management to the next level |
| Jan 26, 2025 | Notes on link blogs and more frequent blog posting | Some notes, quotes, and links about writing more and sharing your work |
| Dec 30, 2024 |
Use list2env() or glue::glue_data() to use a set of elements from a tibble in a string
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Need an easy way to access a set of elements from a tibble for string interpolation? Here’s two examples |
| Dec 27, 2024 |
Separate character strings into rows and columns using tidyr functions
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Need to separate strings? Use the separate_* family of functions
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| Dec 8, 2024 | Summarize logical vectors to calculate numeric summaries |
Need proportion and count summaries from a logical vector? Use mean() and sum()
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| Feb 10, 2024 |
Use base::dput() to easily create and save objects
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Need to create and store an object quickly, use this trick |
| Dec 23, 2023 |
Combine plots using patchwork
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Need to add two or more plots together? Use the patchwork package
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| Nov 3, 2023 |
Using base::tempdir() for temporary data storage
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Need to store data in a place that’s not persistent, use a temporary directory |
| Oct 22, 2023 |
Calculating correlations with corrr
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Use the corrr package to calculate and visualize correlations |
| Oct 14, 2023 | Edit an older unpushed commit |
Use git rebase to edit previous commit messages
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| Feb 24, 2023 | Find and replace in Vim |
Improving productivity by using Vim’s :substitute command
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