Accessing REDCap from R
Summarize packages related to REDCap
Starting as a pet bioinformatician
In my other blog, I posted some views as a pet bioinformatician. I am starting in a new position but with more experience, I think it will help me and other people in the same position.
Exploring CRAN's files: part 2
Introduction In the first post of the series we briefly explored packages available on CRAN. Now I’ll focus on history of the packages and its size using the following files:
Exploring CRAN's files: part 1
Exploration of the CRAN archive: First part about packages published on CRAN
Upgrading rtweet to 1.0.2
In this post I will provide some examples of what has changed between rtweet 0.7.0 and rtweet 1.0.2. I hope both the changes and this guide will help all users.
Leadership in open source projects
This is the second part of the previous post about concepts around open source/free software.
Since last book, I also read Uncurled which recommended “The Making and maintenance of open source software” (I will short it to MMOSS) and “Producing Open Source Software” (POSS), which provide first hand experiences about how those maintainers handled different projects.
Writing a thesis with bookdown
Tips and leasons learned while writing a PhD thesis with bookdown.
Concepts around open source/free software
This post is to lay out some concepts I picked up after reading “The Making and maintenance of open source software”. Having these concepts in mind might help me on my contributions to R and OSS in general.
Creating an RSS feed for r-bloggers for my blogdown
To avoid post with incorrect XML on full content you can limit the post served on the pages.
Reasons why packages are archived on CRAN
Most frequent reason is due to the package not fixed on time, followed by depending on packages archived and policy violation.