https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/gh/ Recent content in Gh on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/27/zzz/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/27/zzz/ tl;dr I got curious about R package startup messages, so I grabbed all the special zzz.R files from R packages that are on CRAN and sourced on GitHub. You can jump to the table of results. Start me up I learnt recently from Hernando Cortina that his and Amanda Dobbyn’s {multicolor} package prints to the console some multicoloured ASCII-art text of the package’s name when you call it with library(multicolor). https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/02/27/typos/ Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/02/27/typos/ The author at work (CC BY-SA 3.0 KaterBegemot) tl;dr Nearly 10 per cent of the commits to this blog’s source involve typo fixes, according to a function I wrote to search commit messages via the {gh} package. Not my typo I’m sure you’ve seen consecutive Git commits from jaded developers like ‘fix problem’, ‘actually fix problem?’, ‘the fix broke something else’, ‘burn it all down’. Sometimes a few swear words will be thrown in for good measure (look no further than ‘Developers Swearing’ on Twitter). https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/06/14/ghdump/ Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/06/14/ghdump/ My garbage GitHub repos being dumped onto my local machine (via openclipart.org, CC0 1.0) tl;dr Run ghd_copy() from the {ghdump} package to either clone or download all the GitHub repositories for a given user. Intended for archival purposes or setting up a new computer. The package comes with no guarantees and will likely be in a perpetual work-in-progress state. Please submit issues or pull requests. Clone army Situation: