NPM (a popular Javascript package repository) just banned package advertisements. I feel the CRAN repository should do the same. Not all R-users are fully aware of package advertisements. But they clutter up work, interfere with reproducibility, and frankly are just wrong. For example, here is the advertisement code from ggplot2: .onAttach <- function(…) { withr::with_preserve_seed({ … Continue reading It is Time for CRAN to Ban Package Ads
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Very Non-Standard Calling in R
Our group has done a lot of work with non-standard calling conventions in R. Our tools work hard to eliminate non-standard calling (as is the purpose of wrapr::let()), or at least make it cleaner and more controllable (as is done in the wrapr dot pipe). And even so, we still get surprised by some of … Continue reading Very Non-Standard Calling in R