He doesn’t believe that “brekkie” is real; fair enough I barely believe it myself

Thanks for sharing- I might get back into them!

By convention, I use all caps for any function or infix operator I want to be passed to SQL

Because that avoids the possibility of conflicting with an R function, which will lead to an error when dbplyr finds it and tries to apply it

(E.g. lowercase extract() would have had a conflict from tidyr)

That’s right, %FROM% isn’t from a package; dbplyr turns any unrecognized infix operator directly into SQL (much like it does with variable names)

Fun fact; %FrOm% would work too

Here is a talk by @drob.bsky.social at @posit.co's conf 2019. The ideas shaped and voiced there are priceless. I've been suggesting this talk to my @datavizartskill.ikashnitsky.phd students ever since, and hopefully some of them found it as useful and motivating /3
youtu.be/th79W4rv67g?...

When I woke up I realized my Part 1 could have been WAY shorter with sort 🤦‍♂️

Was there a period where you were using the early tools personally / in teaching before you uploaded them to CRAN?

Did that change over the course of reshape, reshape2, ggplot, ggplot2?

I think about this piece at least once a week: nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyrann...

I’ve been thinking about this too!!

I think one important shift in the last ten years is that data analysts are much more likely to use SQL + scripting, so “analysts that can program” is no longer a niche that gets its own title