Category: Best Practices

  • Learning about Computing Errors

    Intro As part of the courses I am taking, I learned about something I guess I, as a “computer engineer”, should have come across earlier; but well, it would seem I didn’t. I’ll just show 3 examples anyone can easily find out there on the Internet, of things that happen with floating point operations. Obviously…

  • Reports & Math: Rmd, LaTeX & mosaicCore

    Intro So long story short: I’m soon to start working on some reports that will include some math stuff. I could do that with a Word-like editor, but why would I when we have the marvelous R Markdown? Let’s test a few things that will surely come in handy… Creating reports to share So suppose…

  • dplyr is not faster

    Intro The other day, someone asked in a Telegram group how to go about changing some factor with 4 levels to another set of factors with two levels, in R. So you had originally factors A, B, C, and D, and the new factor would be X for the first 3 cases, and Y for…