https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/self-help/ Recent content in Self Help on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/04/17/r-self-shame/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/04/17/r-self-shame/ Bemusement (all images from Brehm’s Life of Animals, 1895) tl;dr In which I reflect on my past-self’s journey toward better R code. This post suggests alternatives to file.choose(), setwd() and attach(); encourages sensible project structure; and talks about the benefit of writing functions. A startling discovery I dug up a time capsule from a decade ago. It contained poorly constructed R code. Twist: it was me who wrote it.