Sharon Machlis

R Markdown is one of my favorite things about modern R. It offers an easy way to combine text, R…

Tidy evaluation in R, or tidy eval for short, is a pretty complex topic. But for some specific uses, it’s…

When you see “R package,” you may think “Something to share with other people.” But an R package can also…

As much as I love R, it’s clear that Python is also a great language—both for data science and general-purpose…

Writing RStudio addins is easy, is fun, and takes just a few minutes! Well, that’s what Hao Zhu from the…

A color-coded calendar can be a quick and easy way to see whether you’re achieving a daily goal. Did you…

If you want to speed up your R programming workflow, RStudio addins and custom keyboard shortcuts are definitely worth a…

What’s the state abbreviation for Arkansas? Is it AR? AK? AS? Maybe you’ve got a data frame with the information.…

As a former security reporter, it makes me a little queasy to store a password or token in plain text.…

Before you can analyze and visualize data, you have to get that data into R. There are various ways to…

Often, all you need in a table is data as text and numbers. But sometimes, you’d like to visualize results…

Interactive tables with sort and filter capabilities can be a good way to explore your data. They’re also handy when…

Some R users become leery of graphical user interfaces. Pointing and clicking and dragging may be convenient, but it can…

It’s Murphy’s Law of Data: The data you have isn’t always in the format that you need. And not all…