Author: QuestionFlow

CRAN has accepted my ‘pdqr’ package. Here are important examples of how it can be used to describe and evaluate statistical uncertainty. I am glad to announce that my latest,...continue reading.

General description of transformers functionality in {glue} with some potentially useful examples. Prologue Package {glue} is designed as “small, fast, dependency free” tools to “glue strings to data in R”....continue reading.

Research about adequacy of Elo based models applied to snooker match results. Contains a novel approach (EloBeta) targeted for sport results with variable “best of N” format. For many years...continue reading.

Provided different probability distributions, animate independent sample distributions to demonstrate mode variability. There is a thorough code description with some subtle tips and tricks. Not so long time ago I...continue reading.

Ranking Harry Potter books with comperank package. Prologue Package comperank is on CRAN now. It offers consistent implementations of several ranking and rating methods. Originally, it was intended to be...continue reading.

Examples of exported functions from comperes package that could be useful for general tasks. Prologue I am very glad to announce that my new package comperes is on CRAN now....continue reading.

Exploration of Harry Potter Books Survey results with help of my new comperes package. About a month ago I decided to add interesting data set to my almost finished (hopefully,...continue reading.

Notes about creation of Harry Potter Books Survey. It is not over, I need your help. Prologue Right now I am in the final stage of developing two packages devoted...continue reading.

Analysis of one interesting alliance graph within tidy network analysis framework. Quite some time ago I read the fantastic “Tao Te Programming” book by Patrick Burns. You can know this...continue reading.

Overview of simple outlier detection methods with their combination using dplyr and ruler packages. During the process of data analysis one of the most crucial steps is to identify and...continue reading.

Usage examples of ruler package: dplyr-style exploration and validation of data frame like objects. Prologue My previous post tells a story about design of my ruler package, which presents tools...continue reading.

The story about design of ruler package: dplyr-style exploration and validation of data frame like objects. Some time ago I had a task to write data validation code. As for...continue reading.

Introduction to keyholder package. Tools for keeping track of information about rows. During development of my other R package (ruler), I encountered the following problem: how to track rows of...continue reading.

Computational overhead analysis of using generic+method approach instead of if-else sequence and switch statement. Earlier this week I came across this tweet from Thomas (author of many useful and powerful...continue reading.

Practical advices about customizing code highlighting on web pages created with pkgdown. Prologue It felt really nice to achieve custom code highlighting on this site with highlight.js (see this post)....continue reading.

Practical advices about customizing code highlighting on web pages with highlight.js. While creating this site I had to encounter the topic of highlighting code on web pages. I decided to...continue reading.

The story of QuestionFlow origins. This post is a story about how I came up with an idea of QuestionFlow name by performing text analysis. Beware of a lot of...continue reading.