Author: Econometrics and Free Software

This blog post is taken from a chapter of my ebook on building reproducible analytical pipelines, which you can read here If you want to follow along, you can start...continue reading.

This blog post is divided in two parts: in the first part I’ll show you how to create a Linux Live USB with persistent storage that can be used as...continue reading.

Foreword: This is not a tutorial nor anything like that. I’m going to talk about free software, open source, and their licenses. I’m going to give my (non-)expert opinion on...continue reading.

The snake biting its own tail Disclaimer: I’m a beginner at JS, so don’t ask me about the many intricacies of JS. I’ve been working on a Shiny app for...continue reading.

R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it. It is not meant to be intuitive and easy for casual users to...continue reading.

Learning number 1: make functions fail early When writing your own functions, avoid conversion of types without warning. For example, this function only works on characters: my_nchar <- function(x, result...continue reading.

I have this hypothesis that packages that introduce a unique syntax, or a workflow change, get adopted less by users, even if what these packages do is super useful. I’m...continue reading.

I have this hypothesis that packages that introduce a unique syntax, or a workflow change, get adopted less by users, even if what these packages do is super useful. I’m...continue reading.

I am very happy to annouce that the {chronicler} package, which I’ve been working on for the past 3 months has been released on CRAN. Install it with: install.packages(“chronicler”) {chronicler}...continue reading.

Hey kid, fancy some self-documenting {ggplots} like this one: Just read on! I’ve been working hard on a package that I’ve called {chronicler} (read my post on it here) which...continue reading.

Introduction: functions To understand Monads, I think it’s useful to first think about functions; why do we use functions? Why don’t we simply write scripts with the required operations one...continue reading.

Back in February I discussed a package I was working on which allowed users to add logging to function calls. I named the package {loudly} but decided to rename it...continue reading.

In my last video I tried to add a feature to my {loud} package (more info here) and I succeeded. But in succeeding in realised that I would need to...continue reading.

This is a short blog post to announce the early alpha, hyper unstable, use at your own peril, package I’ve been working on for the past 6 hours or so...continue reading.