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Assignment in R

Photo by Susanne Jutzeler, suju-foto on Pexels.com As in other programming languages, data is associated with a name to make it reusable within a program. This operation is typically known as an as…

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RQDAassist 0.7.0

A blog post describing some of the changes introduced with RQDAassist 0.7.0 #rstats

Introduction It is my pleasure to announce the release of version 0.7.0 of the RQDAassist package. A lot of work has gone into making it even easier for would-be users of RQDA to download and install that package along with its dependencies. In this update, I have focused on making R and Rtools more accessible to users, and as such, if one wants to properly install any of the two, the heavy…

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3 Ways to Install R on Windows

3 Ways to (Easily) Install R on Windows #rstats

When it comes to software applications, it is always handy to have more than one way to go about installing them. For R on Windows, there are several ways to accomplish this. In this post, I will be sharing a few that I have encountered and actually used. 1) From CRAN Homepage The commonest approach to installing R is to visit the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) homepage at…

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naijR 0.5.1

naijR version 0.5.2 is now on CRAN. Check out the blog for details on the update. #rstats

A new version of the naijR package was released last weekend on CRAN, comprising internal changes that modify certain behaviour. I will try to quickly outline them in this post, but because the update followed soon after the last minor revision, it might be useful to look at the last blog post on v0.5.0. User-visible Changes Interactivity on Windows As stated in previous articles, the function…

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naijR 0.5.0

A new version of this R package has been released on CRAN, the Comprehensive R Archive Network. It introduces a number of updates that will be described in somewhat detail in this blog post. For a synopsis, read the release notes. New methods Methods for some common generic R functions were included in the update. Some of these include c(), [, [[, na.exclude, to mention a few. This confers…

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naijR 0.4.4

naijR 0.4.4 is has been released on CRAN with a (nasty) bug fixed and other minor enhancements. #rstats

This is to announce the release of a new version of naijR, a package designed to make it easier to work with data related to Nigeria. In this update, a bug related to the fix_mobile function was fixed. In older versions, whenever a vector made up of only missing values (NA) was passed to it, it failed with the following error: # The first number is fixed and the missing value untouched >…

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Today I was looking at a tutorial on Visual Basic for Applications, the programming language that enables power usage in Microsoft Office apps. Now, in VBA, code comments can be written with the `’` character. Thus this line of code would be a comment and ignored during program execution. ` This line of code is a commenthttps://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Computer_Bug,_1945.jpg

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RQDAassist 0.5.1

RQDAassist 0.5.1 is now on GitHub/ Find out about the latest change(s). #rstats

There’s a new release of RQDAassist, a package that was created to help RQDA users to overcome the difficulty of installing it on R version 4. The issues that led to this are explained in this post. The need for today’s update is informed by the arrival of R 4.2.0 (“Vigorous Calisthenics”), which has presented some difficulty with the installation of key RQDA dependencies. Rationale In R 4.2…

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My Network Sharing Apps

This is going to be very brief. The other day I watched a YouTube video by a well-known online business coach and was introduced to network (i.e. internet subscription data) sharing applications on the Google Play store. Now I refrain from mentioning these apps here because I’m not trying to disparage them in any way. The purpose of this post is to inform those whom I shared this information…

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Missionary clothing are a necessity in Nigeria

My wife and I have this joke we’ve shared since our early days (we’ve been married 22 years). At any point in time, we want to have what we’ve dubbed ‘missionary’ clothes. What does this mean? Missionary clothes are those that do not require ironing to look acceptable. The term was coined by Her Royal Majesty and it’s in reference to the cassock worn by priests and monks. The missionary…

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RQDAassist 0.5.0

Announcing the release of RQDAassist 0.5.0 (GitHub only)! In this version, binary installs are now available for key RQDA dependencies. #rstats

This is to introduce a new iteration of the RQDAassist package (version 0.5.0). This version comes with the possibility of installing RGtk2 and cairoDevice via their archived binaries, instead of solely installing source tarballs. The advantage is the installation is much quicker and the interactions with the GTK distribution are much more easily handled. The downside of the binary installation…

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10 Useful R Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

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12 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for RStudio

12 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for RStudio

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are incredibly useful and the creation of RStudio by J. J. Allaire and Joe Cheng in 2011 was a ga

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Running an R Script from the internet

As an R progrmmer, conventional wisdom might lead one to believe that to run an R script that exists on the web, one should have to first download it to the local machine. It turns out that this is…

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naijR 0.3.1

naijR 0.3.1 has been released on CRAN. Check out the blog for details on the latest improvements! #rstats

The naijR package has been updated (version 0.3.1) and is now available on CRAN. Here are the most recent user-visible changes: New stuff Creation of custom objects representing LGAs The function lgas is used to construct objects representing the Local Government Areas (LGAs) as described in an earlier post. The function, when supplied the name of a State, automatically creates an object with…

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naijR 0.3.0

naijR 0.3.0 has been released on CRAN, with additional functionality and bug fixes. #rstats

This is to announce the arrival of naijR v.0.3.0 on CRAN. Changes This version of the package introduces new functionality as well as a number of bug fixes. Construction of objects modelling administrative regions The functions states and lgas are used to create objects that represent States or Local Government Areas (LGAs), respectively. Hitherto, these functions produce a warning whenever…

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Mapping Nigeria's Geopolitical Zones in R

Mapping Nigeria’s Geopolitical Zones in R

The other day I got an email from a researcher who is using the naijR package, which, among other things, helps with the drawing of plot maps of Nigeria. He was having trouble drawing maps of the geopolitical zones (GPZ) of the country. Admittedly, this is an omission from the package, but a deliberate one. I had actually toyed with the idea of baking this feature in, but since the GPZ is not…

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