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Plotly dropdown box

plotly

htmlwidget

data visualisation

In this post, we look at using dropdown events such as dropdown boxes within the plotly R package. The task is a good introduction to how R and JavaScript are linked within…

Mixed model simulation

statistics

simulation

I have started to believe that a good part of understanding the process of a particular statistical model involves being able to set up a simulation of it. Here we do a…

Downloading files from an android phone

I had to transfer many files from an SD card in an Android phone. Windows explorer kept crashing, so I sort another method and one that can be do programmatically - the…

Text analysis of whatapp group chats

text-analysis

I recently began to read the “Text Mining with R” book from by Julia Silge and David Robinson. I thought I would apply this knowledge to my Whatapp group chats

Modularising code

coding-practices

I’ve been working on a project where I’ve had to incorporate better development practices. One issue was the long-winded functions that required breaking up into into…

A better recursion function example in R

recursive function

I had a problem to solve that involved using a recursive function - following links through web pages, programmatically, until a target was found. Searching Google for…

Plumber encrypted token authentication

HTTP API

I’m continuing investigating the plumber R package. I explored
setting cookies in plumber, and attempted to decipher the encrypted cookie use. After some time I reached an…

Plumber token authentication

HTTP API

I’m working on a project that involves using a server to take in user data to run a bioinformatics pipeline with R and blast+. I am using plumber as the HTTP API to receive…

SSH GitHub Action

Today I configured a GitHub Action to SSH my server and pull the main branch after a successful PR. Here’s how …