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I’ve been working with git for quite a while now. I’ve been happily working with git for almost as long. After some in-person training and referring to Happy Git for R, things finally clicked when I found a rhythm to all these strange commands. The git flow I found has helped me not only with what git command I want to use (is it a push? is it a merge?), but also when and in what order to do so.

This post is a draft of an article I wrote on the arcadisgen.com website…

DVLA is not yet on CRAN. To install, simply run the following in R.

When I began learning about how to use Docker I stumbled on an excellent project called Rocker. For anyone with an x86 machine these Rocker images allow them to run R and most of its dependencies in a containerised environment. Plumber APIs, anyone? What about your own Shiny server? Finally, data scientists using R can have the same level of control on dependencies and package versions as Python users have become accustomed to through venv.

Last week a colleague of mine shared the news that the UK Home Office has agreed to scrap its controversial ‘visa-streaming’ immigration algorithm after a successful legal challenge.