James Laird-Smith
jameslairdsmith.bsky.social
James Laird-Smith
@jameslairdsmith.bsky.social
Data Scientist at the @bankofengland.bsky.social . Previously at the @financialtimes.com and University of Cape Town. 🩴🇿🇦
Or yaaaaasss() as a 'shortcut' to TRUE
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Also confusing because ML is also a programming language where it stands for 'Meta Language'.
October 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
HipsterScript is for soy devs.
October 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Been waiting for this!
September 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I used swirl when I was first learning R many years ago. I loved it! I thought it was a very clever idea to teach R in R. In particular it was great for me as a person who hadn't done much typing into the command line before; it helped me build confidence quickly.
September 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
You may want to look into the docstring package. #rstats cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Introduction to docstring
cran.r-project.org
July 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The ftplottools package was previously open source and available on their GitHub organisation. This was back when I worked there. It's been made private since I left; not sure why.
April 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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December 25, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Buying and storing your own music nowadays is actually pretty based.
December 5, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Do you happen to know how many?
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Office Space
November 24, 2024 at 11:44 AM
For this use case, I'd ideally want to alias it to "R" and have that only open the R command line. I assume there is some way to get that behaviour in Nvim-R, but I haven't tried it yet.
November 23, 2024 at 11:23 AM
I was thinking that too. What's the optimal setup? I assume nvim for the R files which will use Treesitter. But what is the best choice for the terminal? Is it usually done with Neovim's build-in terminal or multiplexing?
November 23, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Or something else maybe? Are some of these tools better in certain terminal emulators?
November 23, 2024 at 10:36 AM