rostrum-blog

💾 Source files for rostrum.blog: fun and learning with the R language.

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🔢 There have been 182 posts on the blog between 2018-04-14 (first) to 2025-02-25 (latest).

📅 That’s a post roughly every 14 days, or about 2.2 posts per month.

🆕 The latest post: Dependency-light hex stickers with {gex}.

📈 Posts over time:

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	Date	Title
182	2025-02-25	Dependency-light hex stickers with {gex}
181	2025-01-31	Dependency-free hex stickers with {hexbase}
180	2024-12-15	A roguelike sprite randomiser with Shiny
179	2024-11-16	Deploy a Shiny app to itch.io
178	2024-10-25	{sortable} card games in {shiny}
177	2024-09-15	Little pixel fun zone
176	2024-07-14	Tile-style sprite delight
175	2024-06-12	Expose CRAN deadlines and DOIs
174	2024-05-08	The Aesthetics Wiki: an R Addendum
173	2024-04-01	Stop Jenny committing arson
172	2024-03-26	Assign abstracts to sifters
171	2024-03-15	Sh*tty R help from sh*tty AI
170	2024-03-12	Ellipses, eclipses and bulletses
169	2024-02-03	Start an argument with R
168	2024-01-27	Kill your darlings (but bugfix first)
167	2024-01-20	Pseudo-apps in the browser with WebR and Quarto?
166	2024-01-12	Yihui Xie: RAP god
165	2023-12-03	No tears over missed eyedrops
164	2023-11-25	An interactive graph of Pokémon Red locations
163	2023-11-01	Unlock R functions with QR codes
162	2023-10-17	Base slaps!
161	2023-10-08	Govspeakify tables with {shinylive}
160	2023-09-17	{cli}ckable hyperlinks in the R console
159	2023-09-16	Dear John, I’m sorry
158	2023-09-10	The life and death of the tidyverse
157	2023-09-09	Combing through my trash
156	2023-09-01	Autodetect Quarto formats with {quartostamp}. Or not.
155	2023-08-26	Conscious uncoupling with {blogdown}
154	2023-08-19	Object of type closure can shut up
153	2023-08-01	One weird trick to {monetize} your R package
152	2023-07-15	Save high scores for your R game
151	2023-06-21	Convert a Word table to Markdown
150	2023-06-13	Panic! In The Toolshed
149	2023-06-11	Extract run data from Apple Health (redux)
148	2023-06-07	Rectangularise Word tables extracted by {officer}
147	2023-05-10	Recreating a dataviz with {ggplot2}
146	2023-05-07	Automate {blogdown} to Quarto
145	2023-04-23	Matt Dray Teaches (Data) Typing
144	2023-04-02	R is a game engine, fight me
143	2023-03-16	Playgrounds with WebR and Quarto
142	2023-03-15	Fun and learning. In a dungeon!
141	2023-03-03	I can’t be parsed, mate
140	2023-02-26	Repaying Tom Nook with {S7}
139	2023-02-09	Porting a Twitter bot to Mastodon
138	2023-02-02	Wrapping PokéAPI with {trapinch}
137	2023-01-08	Stiliyan Petrov: Jesus?
136	2023-01-06	.-././–/—/.-./…/.
135	2023-01-04	Ding! Sound effects in {r.oguelike}
134	2022-12-11	Animate sprites in R with {pixeltrix}
133	2022-11-13	Tamagotchi in R?
132	2022-09-24	Interactive pixel art in R with {pixeltrix}
131	2022-09-13	You are a halfling, trying to harvest {potato}
130	2022-09-07	EARL 22: {a11ytables} for better spreadsheets
129	2022-08-11	Two RStudio Addins: {quartostamp} and {snorkel}
128	2022-07-22	Fixing londonmapbot for {rtweet} v1.0
127	2022-07-08	Stop opening the same RStudio Project twice
126	2022-06-28	An isometric dungeon chase in R
125	2022-06-10	Automated pathfinding in {r.oguelike}
124	2022-06-07	Down with R’s assignment flamewars!
123	2022-06-01	Try R v4.2 in your browser
122	2022-05-01	Simple procedural dungeons in R
121	2022-04-27	Turn the {tide} on R’s secret spreadsheet editor
120	2022-04-25	Building a {r.oguelike} in R
119	2022-03-31	Interactive maps of Hastings Half Marathon
118	2022-03-15	Reproducible {distill} posts with {renv} profiles
117	2022-02-19	Add in an RStudio Addin to add in backticks
116	2022-02-12	londonmapbot at LondonR
115	2022-02-04	Introduce me to your {soccercolleagues}
114	2022-01-19	Impress with {keypress} minigames
113	2022-01-14	Wordle, twirdle and eldrow
112	2022-01-07	The most popular Animal Crossing villagers
111	2021-12-30	Your workout route (in three dimensions!)
110	2021-11-27	{itdepends} on {lubridate}
109	2021-11-27	R has obscenely long function names
108	2021-11-07	Deep fried memes in R
107	2021-11-04	Get coordinates from fictitious maps
106	2021-10-05	Reveal a hidden gorilla with {magick}
105	2021-10-03	{ActionSquirrel}: a game in the R console
104	2021-09-14	Wot3LdnEmojis
103	2021-09-12	Extract punctuation from books with R
102	2021-08-31	Auto-label closing parentheses in RStudio
101	2021-08-27	Exploring R package startup messages
100	2021-08-27	Adding a Shiny app to {dehex}
99	2021-08-10	Read a hex colour code with {dehex}
98	2021-07-31	OG emoji SVGs
97	2021-07-25	Make an art gallery with {bs4cards}
96	2021-07-23	What colour is London?
95	2021-07-15	EXPOSED: a Kiwi conspiracy built into R!
94	2021-07-10	Decay is inevitable, accept {linkrot}?
93	2021-07-05	#RecreationThursday: a LeWitt Shiny app
92	2021-06-28	Very simple pixel art in R
91	2021-06-26	Generate an {emojiscape}
90	2021-06-21	Recreation Thursday: Hlito with base R
89	2021-06-08	Recreating Spear’s #CottonViz in base R
88	2021-05-22	Mission Across the Isle of Wight
87	2021-05-07	Encrypt and host a knitted R Markdown file
86	2021-04-18	Make the simplest R package with {pico}
85	2021-04-14	Up-to-date blog stats in your README
84	2021-04-10	Convert R to cron to English with {dialga}
83	2021-03-23	Apple Health and Nike Run Club with {xml2}
82	2021-03-23	Make a {shiny} app README badge
81	2021-03-13	Protect yourself from equals assignment!
80	2021-03-02	A tiny {shiny} flag challenge
79	2021-02-27	Typo-shaming my Git commits
78	2021-02-21	#GithubSkyline but hear me out
77	2021-02-02	What does a year of COVID-19 sound like?
76	2021-01-28	R’s names and values as anchovy pizza
75	2021-01-04	Play Pokémon’s Safari Zone in R
74	2020-12-30	Accessible colour contrasts with {coloratio}
73	2020-12-20	Mapping londonmapbot tweets with {leaflet}
72	2020-12-08	Sending {postcards} with Netlify and Namecheap
71	2020-11-21	The US electoral college with {tilegramsR}
70	2020-11-14	Translate R to English with {r2eng}
69	2020-09-27	Hit your reproducibility {targets}
68	2020-09-21	A Twitter bot with {rtweet} and GitHub Actions
67	2020-09-16	Friendship ended with Google Analytics
66	2020-09-15	Rate my RStudio setup
65	2020-09-12	{units} of uncleaned herring
64	2020-08-09	GitHub Actions for R packages
63	2020-07-11	Set up R on Raspberry Pi for blogging
62	2020-06-14	Take a {ghdump} to download GitHub repos
61	2020-06-06	Animal Crossing Tinder with {shinysense}
60	2020-05-16	Postcode pandemonium with {data.table}
59	2020-05-08	Make a README badge with {badgr}
58	2020-05-02	AGÜEROOOOO with {ggsoccer} and {gganimate}
57	2020-04-17	Owning the shame of my old R code
56	2020-04-05	Plotception with {ggpattern}
55	2020-04-04	Repaying Tom Nook with {R6}
54	2020-03-22	Ninja scaffolding for {xaringan}
53	2020-03-12	Iterate parameterised {xaringan} reports
52	2020-02-27	Dear past self: blog
51	2020-02-05	A Pokémon sprite carousel with {slickR}
50	2020-01-31	{orderly} and {drake} at Bioinformatics London
49	2020-01-22	Reproducibility in R: three things
48	2019-12-27	Packages that Sparked Joy in 2019
47	2019-12-23	Handle London travel data with {oystr}
46	2019-12-08	{altcheckr}: check image alt text from R
45	2019-11-27	A pivotal change to Software Carpentry
44	2019-11-02	Tidyswirl: a tidyverse Swirl course
43	2019-11-01	Build an R package with {usethis}
42	2019-10-21	Git going: Git and GitHub
41	2019-10-22	{blogsnip}: an RStudio Addins package
40	2019-09-20	How do you pronounce {dplyr}?
39	2019-09-12	The Carpentries: teach with live coding
38	2019-09-06	{blogdown}: add metadata to Lithium-themed posts
37	2019-08-25	{holepunch} a {drake} and put it in a Binder
36	2019-07-23	Can {drake} RAP?
35	2019-06-20	The Mountain Goats with {trelliscopejs}
34	2019-06-11	A GitHub repo template for R analysis
33	2019-05-31	Make a {brickr} soccer player
32	2019-05-24	Package a {xaringan} template
31	2019-05-10	Teach a person to {swirl}
30	2019-04-30	Markov-chaining my PhD thesis II
29	2019-04-25	Generate The Mountain Goats lyrics
28	2019-04-14	A year of rostrum.blog
27	2019-04-07	Fix leaky pipes in R
26	2019-03-18	A tidyverse functions quiz with {learnr}
25	2019-03-04	Web scraping the {polite} way
24	2019-02-27	What’s your Hadley Number?
23	2019-02-14	Graphing the Relayverse of podcasts
22	2019-02-01	Git going: the command line
21	2019-01-18	Map deer-vehicle colisions with {shiny}
20	2019-01-04	Motivate yourself with an .Rprofile
19	2018-12-24	Travel the NBA with {rvest}, {leaflet} and {osrm}
18	2018-11-29	Change your {blogdown} fonts
17	2018-11-25	Quantify colour by {magick}
16	2018-11-21	Waggle dance with {ggbeeswarm} and {emoGG}
15	2018-11-04	Teaching R with Pokémon Go data
14	2018-10-13	R session info info
13	2018-09-24	Knitting Club: R Markdown for beginners
12	2018-09-12	EARL 2018: {crosstalk} in memes
11	2018-07-26	Engifification in R with {gifski}
10	2018-07-17	Footballers are younger than you
9	2018-07-12	How accessible is my post about accessibility?
8	2018-06-30	Markov-chaining my PhD thesis
7	2018-06-26	Iterative R Markdown reports for Dawson’s Creek
6	2018-06-05	Tid-ye-text with {geniusr}
5	2018-05-25	Cloudy with a chance of pie
4	2018-05-19	Pokéballs in Super Smash Bros
3	2018-05-12	Accessibility workshop at #Sprint18
2	2018-04-27	TWO DOGS IN TOILET ELDERLY LADY INVOLVED
1	2018-04-14	R Trek: exploring stardates

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🕒 Last updated: 2025-02-25 at 22:36.