← Feed

Posts

• View post

  #RStats Possibly solved with getExportedValue: ``` if (utils::packageVersion("ggplot2") >= "4.0.0") { elem_geom = getExportedValue(ns = "ggplot2", name = "element_geom") } else { elem_geom <- NULL } foo <- ggplot2::theme(…., geom = elem_geom, …) ``` This seems reasonable to me and passes check on the versions I've tried so far. Can't yet promise CRAN will approve…

• View post

  Kindergartner has demanded I make an “envelope with pockets” to send two letters at once to their cousin. Apparently having the pages touch each other in one compartment will simply not do.

• View post

  My only topical take for today is that “undoing a 600% increase is an 85.7% decrease” being arithmetically true does not stop it from being a great example of why to avoid percentages if you want to be understood.

• View post

  Today in inevitably turning into one’s parents: Wander around the house singing half-verses of John Prine songs ✅

• View post

  Had a long, baffling back-and-forth with my 5yo that opened with a demand to print out my entire Git history on paper and ended with them happily playing restaurant using a one-page printout of a decade-old Taco Bell menu, thereby reminding us all that negotiation only works if all parties understand what they want.

• View post

  P sure this farmers’ market vendor just inaugurated the customer ahead of me as a regular: “Nah, it’s fine, bring an extra $3 next week. You’ll remember, I won’t.”