https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/emo/ Recent content in Emo on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/02/randoflag/ Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/02/randoflag/ The gif loops; I promise there’s more flags than this. tl;dr I wrote a teeny-weeny R Shiny app to serve me a flag challenge whenever I open a new browser tab. A vexatious request I thought it would be fun to set my browser tabs to open with thiscatdoesnotexist.com, which serves a random ersatz ‘cat’ as hallucinated by StyleGAN.1 It’s kind of terrifying and time for a change. https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/01/04/rprofile-motivate/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/01/04/rprofile-motivate/ My dream is to pet this kitty (via Giphy) What’s an R profile? It’s a file that contains R code that runs when you start or restart R. You can use it to customise your environment. For example, you could set options, create functions or load packages. There’s lots of information in the R startup chapter of Colin Gillespie’s’s Efficient R Programming book. But beware: use of an R profile may not be particularly reproducible if the .