The RStudio v1.2 release is coming soon, and it’s been a long time coming. RStudio v1.1 was first released on July 20th, 2017, making this now over a year and a half since its release. We originally intended for this to be a somewhat shorter release, but (as these things happen) we ended up transitioning some work originally planned for RStudio v1.3 to RStudio v1.2.
Read More →This blog post is an attempt to explore, and answer, the surprisingly difficult question:
Read More →This post will be short and sweet – I wanted to discuss one of the techniques I used for preserving backwards compatibility with some functions in sparklyr whose signature had changed, using some tricks for accessing + modifying the ‘parent frame’ of a function.
Read More →I’ve now made enough submissions to CRAN that have crashed and burned on Solaris, that I think it’s now time to put some of the pitfalls I’ve bumped into in writing. My goal is for this blog post to be a mini-checklist package authors can run through before submitting a C++-code containing package to CRAN. (If you happen to be a CRAN maintainer who has stumbled upon this blog post, I apologize for all the trouble I’ve caused in my various package submissions. Let this be my recompense.)
Read More →Parsers are a topic that have been brewing in the back of my head for a while now. Mainly, “how do I write one?” and “I really want to write one!”. There’s something very … zen, about the idea of writing a program that understands how to read and interpret another program.
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