https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/crayon/ Recent content in Crayon on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/09/12/extract-punct/ Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/09/12/extract-punct/ The start of ‘Moby Dick’ by Herman Melville tl;dr I wrote an R function to extract only the punctuation marks from a provided text. It prints prettily to the console, but you can also take a character vector away for further analysis. Punct rock A few years ago Adam J Calhoun did a small but really neat thing: extracted and presented only the punctuation from some books. It appeared again recently in my Twitter timeline. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/10/dehex/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/10/dehex/ tl;dr I wrote an R package, {dehex}, that helps you learn to ‘read’ a hex colour code by eye according to David DeSandro’s method. Check out his mindblowing talk. Hue are you? Hex codes are used in computing to encode a colour as a succinct six-digit alphanumeric string, like #F4D82A. These codes are written in hexadecimal (hence ‘hex’): they can take the characters 0 to 9 and A to F, which encodes 16 possible values.