Been a while since I've written a blog post, but here's one around the {shinytesters} package I've been writing to make it easier testing Shiny input updates in testServer #RStats

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I've completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode #RStats

Playing catch-up after a long weekend away. Part 2 took a while to understand, but had fun making a rudimentary sorting algorithm.

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I've completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #RStats #AdventOfCode

Happy with solution using reverse words to reduce the number of checks made on each cell in the matrix. Also could just delete code from the helper function to do Part 2

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I've completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode #RStats

I will always enjoy the puzzles with regular expressions, but yet to find the one-line solution that checks look-behinds and negative look-behinds cleanly...

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I've completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode #RStats adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

Another (almost) 1-liner today, am enjoying this level of warm up puzzles

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I've completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode #rstats

Nice and easy one to get back into doing these puzzles again, no doubt the difficulty will spike quick enough 😅

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