https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/kiwi/ Recent content in Kiwi on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/15/dollar-dollar/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/15/dollar-dollar/ Kiwi by Georgiana Ionescu. Laser embellishment in honour of Lucy Gray’s flag. tl;dr R’s $ data accessor symbol is part of an international ruse. I wrote a function so you can use your local currency symbol instead. Pull the wool from your eyes You’re an R user, so you’ll know how to access the contents of a quoted column name from a dataframe with square-bracket notation. mtcars[["cyl"]] ## [1] 6 6 4 6 8 6 8 4 4 6 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 4 4 4 4 8 8 8 8 4 4 4 8 6 8 4 The dollar symbol ($) does the same thing, of course, in the form dataframe$column.