https://milesmcbain.com Before I Sleep https://milesmcbain.com/images/favicon.ico https://milesmcbain.com Distill Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/data-analysis-reuse A speed-run through four stages of data analysis reuse, to the end game you probably guessed was coming. data science workflows https://milesmcbain.com/posts/data-analysis-reuse Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/tribe-evamos-longtail-cargo-review I review our car-replacement cargo ebike one year on. review cargobikes https://milesmcbain.com/posts/tribe-evamos-longtail-cargo-review Mon, 23 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/assertive-programming-for-pipelines An introduction to assertive programming as an alternative to testing rstats workflow https://milesmcbain.com/posts/assertive-programming-for-pipelines Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/vector-tiles A tutorial on mapping with vector tiles in R rstats vector-tiles spatial https://milesmcbain.com/posts/vector-tiles Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/zsa-moonlander-review I spent 60 days with the ZSA Moonlander Keyboard and ultimately returned it. I wanted to like it, but couldn't make the ergonomics work for me. keyboards ergonomics review https://milesmcbain.com/posts/zsa-moonlander-review Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/the-stack git, GitHub, {targets}, VSCode, and other tools that our data science team uses to collaborate. rstats collaboration workflow reproducibility runapp https://milesmcbain.com/posts/the-stack Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/adding-addins-to-vscode Technical details and select highlights of my project to bring RStudio addins to VSCode. rstats vscode rstudio https://milesmcbain.com/posts/adding-addins-to-vscode Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/an-okay-idea The overarching problem I see with conforming analysis to the package domain, is that it introduces artifacts not of the project domain and that makes the project harder to comprehend rstats workflow data science https://milesmcbain.com/posts/an-okay-idea Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/the-drake-post The {drake} post I've been threatening to make has landed. All 4000 words of it. rstats productivity workflow reproducibility debugging https://milesmcbain.com/posts/the-drake-post Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/recover Over the last couple of months a debugging technique involving an R function called `recover` has transformed my approach dealing with errors in R code. This post is an introduction to a ~20min video I've made where I demonstrate my `recover` approach on two examples. rstats debugging https://milesmcbain.com/posts/recover Sun, 28 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/hacking-r-library-paths If you've been tripped up by R's library paths in the past, or you just enjoy a good hack, you might appreciate this little trick rstats hacks https://milesmcbain.com/posts/hacking-r-library-paths Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/packrat-lite Recently I proudly shared some code that was only weeks old and had maybe 40 dependencies... what could possibly go wrong right? rstats reproducibility https://milesmcbain.com/posts/packrat-lite Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/for-loops Two #rstats community personalities whom I very much admire have taken my name in vain in relation to for loops. What's up with that? rstats loops https://milesmcbain.com/posts/for-loops Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/rstats-anti-pattern-row-wise The Row-wise modification of data in a loop is a trap for programmers coming to R from other languages. rstats loops https://milesmcbain.com/posts/rstats-anti-pattern-row-wise Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/the-roots-of-quotation In this post I use Lisp as a prop to have the quoting conversation from the start. It's a deep dive that will hopefully arrive at a deep understanding. rstats lisp https://milesmcbain.com/posts/the-roots-of-quotation Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/r2vr3-shading-meshes-in-webvr In this post I'll contiue to riff on the Uluru mesh, discussing how to colour a WebVR mesh by shading using a raster layer, or applying a texture. rstats R2VR https://milesmcbain.com/posts/r2vr3-shading-meshes-in-webvr Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/crushing-the-contact-details-file It is a universal law that if you volunteer to help organise something, you will at some stage be issued with a flat text file of contact details. rstats regex productivity https://milesmcbain.com/posts/crushing-the-contact-details-file Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/r2vr2-rendering-meshes-in-webvr How to render a 3D mesh of Uluru in WebVR using the A-Frame framework via R. rstats R2VR https://milesmcbain.com/posts/r2vr2-rendering-meshes-in-webvr Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/2018-in-pursuit-of-productivity 2018 was probably my busiest year on record. I reflect on some of the productivity tools that got me through. productivity software development https://milesmcbain.com/posts/2018-in-pursuit-of-productivity Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/solving-the-challenge-of-tidyeval Ok here's the vignette... scroll scroll scroll... now I just quo... no wait enquo, no wait sym? Ahhh! equos that has to be it... rstats tidyverse tidyeval https://milesmcbain.com/posts/solving-the-challenge-of-tidyeval Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/how-to-survive-a-laptop-fire How bad would it be for your work if your laptop burned in a fire? software development https://milesmcbain.com/posts/how-to-survive-a-laptop-fire Sun, 20 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/r2v1-meshing-uluru-from-polygons-and-rasters In this post I describe using R to make a 3D mesh of Uluru from publicly available spatial data. rstats WebVR R2VR GIS https://milesmcbain.com/posts/r2v1-meshing-uluru-from-polygons-and-rasters Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/r2vr Introducing #R2VR rstats R2VR WebVR GIS https://milesmcbain.com/posts/r2vr Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/ropensci-onboarding2 How is a package peer reviewer’s time best spent? When is the best time in a software package’s life cycle to undertake peer review? A user-driven perspective. rstats rOpenSci open science https://milesmcbain.com/posts/ropensci-onboarding2 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/a-fully-dockerised-ghost-blog The installation documentation for Ghost is comprehensive, but beyond my skill as a system administrator to complete. Docker to the rescue! ghost docker https://milesmcbain.com/posts/a-fully-dockerised-ghost-blog Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/ropensci-onboarding1 Onboarding is a waterslide. rOpenSci have created a rewarding and fun process that generates high quality R packages. rstats open science rOpenSci https://milesmcbain.com/posts/ropensci-onboarding1 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Miles McBain https://milesmcbain.com/posts/alt-r-with-vscode I never want to see another CSV that isn't rainbow! https://milesmcbain.com/posts/alt-r-with-vscode Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000