Category: Blog

  • A quick look at memory usage when “copying variables”

    This one is not exactly about changing code in practice… This entry differs a bit in that it is purely “educational”, not an opinion or recommendation or anything to change in the way I program at all, but rather about how the R interpreter works. As always, there are much better references out there (see…

  • A tidy running environment

    A clean environment is rather “hard work” to maintain I always worry that installing stuff on my laptop will creep up my machine. I don’t like re-installing (not if that means using up my own spare time). So I try to install as little as possible (it’s also simply a matter of “reducing the attack…

  • So much space for improvement

    This is both great and worrisome… Simply put, I can’t know it all, and as this is mostly on my spare time (programming is not even in my job description, although I do program to make my team’s life easier), maybe I shouldn’t even try. But as the concept of Kaizen goes (the way I…