Michael Gicheru
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Michael Gicheru
@michaelgicheru.bsky.social
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This looks great!
October 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Got a 10 minute video for you. The dots really clicked for me after watching this.

youtu.be/oIMFZf5dUFA?...
Demystifying . . . (dots): R package dev fundamentals
YouTube video by Josiah Parry
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ah, was mistaken then. Base R's `file.choose()` is probably the next best thing. Or `choose.files()` for multiple files and much more customisable.
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October 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I think it's the same? The rstudioapi package is largely compatible with positron
September 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
To remove the need to use them, you could use the {janitor} package to clean your variable/column names. For example:

```
library(janitor)
x <- data.frame("Month Name" = 1:12) |> clean_names()
```

This should turn the column name to month_name and allow you to refer to it without quotes.
September 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
You typically don't need those while working with R. I think it comes up because of how you are creating/reading in variable/column names eg from excel. The names probably have spaces in them hence the need to use ' or " or `. You can totally work with them as is but R does not play well with them
September 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Would you consider having literate programming a first class feature? Scripts with special comments could be compiled into a pdf/html etc?

Otherwise, looks really good!
August 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Thank you! I'll add it to the list!
August 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Thank you so much, this is helpful!

I am trying to improve upon a package that primarily uses matrices. But it's limited by the two-dimensional nature of them, and arrays seem like the natural step up.
August 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Ok found a solution. Turns out scales::label_number(style_negative = "parents") does this.
Note to future self: read the documentation of functions!!
April 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM