rostrum-blog

The source code for rostrum.blog has moved to github.com/matt-dray/rostrum-blog-2 (August 2023).

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Source files for [rostrum.blog](https://www.rostrum.blog/): fun and learning with the R language. Read more on the [about](https://www.rostrum.blog/about/) page. Built with [{blogdown}](https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/) and a customised [Lithium](https://github.com/jrutheiser/hugo-lithium-theme) theme. Deployed with [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/). # Stats 🔢 There have been 154 posts on [the blog](https://www.rostrum.blog/) since 2018-04-14. 📅 That’s a post roughly every 13 days, or about 2.4 posts per month. 🆕 The latest post was published 7 day(s) ago: [Object of type closure can shut up](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/08/19/find-bad-names/). 📈 This 2D plot shows posts over time:

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| Number | Date | Title | |-------:|:-----------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 154 | 2023-08-19 | [Object of type closure can shut up](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/08/19/find-bad-names/) | | 153 | 2023-08-01 | [One weird trick to {monetize} your R package](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/08/01/monetize/) | | 152 | 2023-07-15 | [Save high scores for your R game](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/07/15/hiscore/) | | 151 | 2023-06-21 | [Convert a Word table to Markdown](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/06/21/wordup-tables/) | | 150 | 2023-06-13 | [Panic! In The Toolshed](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/06/13/panic-in-the-toolshed/) | | 149 | 2023-06-11 | [Extract run data from Apple Health (redux)](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/06/11/apple-health-redux/) | | 148 | 2023-06-07 | [Rectangularise Word tables extracted by {officer}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/06/07/rectangular-officer/) | | 147 | 2023-05-10 | [Recreating a dataviz with {ggplot2}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/05/10/spear-ggplot2/) | | 146 | 2023-05-07 | [Automate {blogdown} to Quarto](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/05/07/bd2q/) | | 145 | 2023-04-23 | [Matt Dray Teaches (Data) Typing](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/04/23/type-convert/) | | 144 | 2023-04-02 | [R is a game engine, fight me](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/04/02/splendid-r-games/) | | 143 | 2023-03-16 | [Playgrounds with WebR and Quarto](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/03/16/webr-quarto/) | | 142 | 2023-03-15 | [Fun and learning. In a dungeon.](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/03/15/in-a-dungeon/) | | 141 | 2023-03-03 | [I can’t be parsed, mate](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/03/03/getparsedata/) | | 140 | 2023-02-26 | [Repaying Tom Nook with {S7}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/26/nook-s7/) | | 139 | 2023-02-09 | [London from space via botsin.space](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/09/londonmapbotstodon/) | | 138 | 2023-02-02 | [Wrapping PokéAPI with {trapinch}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/02/02/trapinch/) | | 137 | 2023-01-08 | [Stiliyan Petrov: Jesus?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/01/08/petrov/) | | 136 | 2023-01-06 | [.-././–/—/.-./…/.](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/01/06/remorse/) | | 135 | 2023-01-04 | [Ding! Sound effects in {r.oguelike}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2023/01/04/rogue-sfx/) | | 134 | 2022-12-11 | [Animate sprites in R with {pixeltrix}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/12/11/pixeltrix-animate/) | | 133 | 2022-11-13 | [Tamagotchi in R?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/11/13/tamrgo/) | | 132 | 2022-09-24 | [Interactive pixel art in R with {pixeltrix}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/09/24/pixeltrix/) | | 131 | 2022-09-13 | [You are a halfling, trying to harvest {potato}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/09/13/potato/) | | 130 | 2022-09-07 | [EARL 22: {a11ytables} for better spreadsheets](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/09/07/earl22/) | | 129 | 2022-08-11 | [Two RStudio Addins: {quartostamp} and {snorkel}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/08/11/quartostamp-snorkel/) | | 128 | 2022-07-22 | [Fixing londonmapbot for {rtweet} v1.0](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/22/mapbot-rtweet-v1/) | | 127 | 2022-07-08 | [Stop opening the same RStudio Project twice](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/08/rproj-dupes/) | | 126 | 2022-06-28 | [An isometric dungeon chase in R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/06/28/isometric-dungeon/) | | 125 | 2022-06-10 | [Automated pathfinding in {r.oguelike}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/06/10/basic-search/) | | 124 | 2022-06-07 | [Down with R’s assignment flamewars!](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/06/07/assign-down/) | | 123 | 2022-06-01 | [Try R v4.2 in your browser](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/06/01/try-r/) | | 122 | 2022-05-01 | [Simple procedural dungeons in R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/05/01/dungeon/) | | 121 | 2022-04-27 | [Turn the {tide} on R’s secret spreadsheet editor](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/04/27/tide/) | | 120 | 2022-04-25 | [Building a {r.oguelike} in R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/04/25/r.oguelike-dev/) | | 119 | 2022-03-31 | [Interactive maps of Hastings Half Marathon](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/03/31/hastings-half/) | | 118 | 2022-03-15 | [Reproducible {distill} posts with {renv} profiles](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/03/15/renv-profiles/) | | 117 | 2022-02-19 | [Add in an RStudio Addin to add in backticks](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/19/backtick/) | | 116 | 2022-02-12 | [londonmapbot at LondonR](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/12/mapbotr-londonr/) | | 115 | 2022-02-04 | [Introduce me to your {soccercolleagues}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/02/04/soccercolleagues/) | | 114 | 2022-01-19 | [Impress with {keypress}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/01/19/keypress/) | | 113 | 2022-01-14 | [Wordle, twirdle and eldrow](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/01/14/wordle/) | | 112 | 2022-01-07 | [The most popular Animal Crossing villagers](https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/01/07/acnh-swipe-results/) | | 111 | 2021-12-30 | [Your workout route (in three dimensions!)](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/12/30/gpx3d/) | | 110 | 2021-11-27 | [{itdepends} on {lubridate}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/11/27/lubridate-fns/) | | 109 | 2021-11-27 | [R has obscenely long function names](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/11/27/long-fns/) | | 108 | 2021-11-07 | [Deep fried memes in R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/11/07/deepfry/) | | 107 | 2021-11-04 | [Get coordinates from fictitious maps](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/11/04/kanto-locator/) | | 106 | 2021-10-05 | [Reveal a hidden gorilla with {magick}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/10/05/gorilla/) | | 105 | 2021-10-03 | [{ActionSquirrel}: a game in the R console](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/10/03/squirrel/) | | 104 | 2021-09-14 | [Wot3LdnEmojis](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/09/14/wot3ldnemojis/) | | 103 | 2021-09-12 | [Extract punctuation from books with R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/09/12/extract-punct/) | | 102 | 2021-08-31 | [Auto-label closing parentheses in RStudio](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/31/add-biscuits/) | | 101 | 2021-08-27 | [Exploring R package startup messages](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/27/zzz/) | | 100 | 2021-08-27 | [Adding a Shiny app to {dehex}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/27/dehex-app/) | | 99 | 2021-08-10 | [Read a hex colour code with {dehex}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/10/dehex/) | | 98 | 2021-07-31 | [OG emoji SVGs](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/31/og-emoji-svg/) | | 97 | 2021-07-25 | [Make an art gallery with {bs4cards}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/25/faxcrayon/) | | 96 | 2021-07-23 | [What colour is London?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/23/london-colour/) | | 95 | 2021-07-15 | [EXPOSED: a Kiwi conspiracy built into R!](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/15/dollar-dollar/) | | 94 | 2021-07-10 | [Decay is inevitable, accept {linkrot}?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/10/linkrot/) | | 93 | 2021-07-05 | [\#RecreationThursday: a LeWitt Shiny app](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/07/05/recreate-lewitt/) | | 92 | 2021-06-28 | [Very simple pixel art in R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/28/pixel-art/) | | 91 | 2021-06-26 | [Generate an {emojiscape}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/26/emojiscape/) | | 90 | 2021-06-21 | [\#RecreationThursday: Hlito with base R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/21/recreate-hlito/) | | 89 | 2021-06-08 | [Recreating Spear’s \#CottonViz in base R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/06/08/recreate-spear/) | | 88 | 2021-05-22 | [Misson Across the Isle of Wight](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/05/22/mission-across-iow/) | | 87 | 2021-05-07 | [Encrypt and host a knitted R Markdown file](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/05/07/encrypted-rmd/) | | 86 | 2021-04-18 | [Make the simplest R package with {pico}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/18/pico-pkg/) | | 85 | 2021-04-14 | [Up-to-date blog stats in your README](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/14/gha-readme/) | | 84 | 2021-04-10 | [Convert R to cron to English with {dialga}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/04/10/dialga/) | | 83 | 2021-03-23 | [Make a {shiny} app README badge](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/23/shiny-badge/) | | 82 | 2021-03-23 | [Apple Health and Nike Run Club with {xml2}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/23/xml-health/) | | 81 | 2021-03-13 | [Protect yourself from equals assignment!](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/13/assign/) | | 80 | 2021-03-02 | [A tiny {shiny} flag challenge](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/03/02/randoflag/) | | 79 | 2021-02-27 | [Typo-shaming my Git commits](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/02/27/typos/) | | 78 | 2021-02-21 | [\#GithubSkyline but hear me out](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/02/21/skyphone/) | | 77 | 2021-02-02 | [What does a year of COVID-19 sound like?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/02/02/sonify-covid/) | | 76 | 2021-01-28 | [R’s names and values as anchovy pizza](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/01/28/adv-r-names/) | | 75 | 2021-01-04 | [Play Pokémon’s Safari Zone in R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/01/04/safar6/) | | 74 | 2020-12-30 | [Accessible colour contrasts with {coloratio}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/12/30/coloratio/) | | 73 | 2020-12-20 | [Mapping londonmapbot tweets with {leaflet}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/12/20/londonmapbot-leaflet/) | | 72 | 2020-12-08 | [Sending {postcards} with Netlify and Namecheap](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/12/08/postcard/) | | 71 | 2020-11-21 | [The US electoral college with {tilegramsR}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/11/21/president-tilegram/) | | 70 | 2020-11-14 | [Translate R to English with {r2eng}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/11/14/hello-r2eng/) | | 69 | 2020-09-27 | [Hit your reproducibility {targets}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/27/targets-dsfest/) | | 68 | 2020-09-21 | [A Twitter bot with {rtweet} and GitHub Actions](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/21/londonmapbot/) | | 67 | 2020-09-16 | [Friendship ended with Google Analytics](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/16/goatcounter-blogdown/) | | 66 | 2020-09-15 | [Rate my RStudio setup](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/15/rstudio-settings/) | | 65 | 2020-09-12 | [{units} of uncleaned herring](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/09/12/herring-units/) | | 64 | 2020-08-09 | [R-Package GitHub Actions via {usethis} and r-lib](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/08/09/ghactions-pkgs/) | | 63 | 2020-07-11 | [Blogging with R on Raspberry Pi](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/07/11/raspberry/) | | 62 | 2020-06-14 | [Take a {ghdump} to download GitHub repos](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/06/14/ghdump/) | | 61 | 2020-06-06 | [Animal Crossing Tinder with {shinysense}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/06/06/acnh-swipe/) | | 60 | 2020-05-16 | [\#PostcodePandemonium with {data.table}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/05/16/postcode-pandemonium/) | | 59 | 2020-05-08 | [Make a README badge with {badgr}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/05/08/readme-badge/) | | 58 | 2020-05-02 | [AGÜEROOOOO with {ggsoccer} and {gganimate}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/05/02/aguerooooo/) | | 57 | 2020-04-17 | [Owning the shame of my old R code](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/04/17/r-self-shame/) | | 56 | 2020-04-05 | [Plotception with {ggpattern}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/04/05/yo-dawg/) | | 55 | 2020-04-04 | [Repaying Tom Nook with {R6}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/04/04/repaying-tom-nook-with-r6/) | | 54 | 2020-03-22 | [Ninja scaffolding for {xaringan}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/03/22/ninja-scaffold/) | | 53 | 2020-03-12 | [Iterate parameterised {xaringan} reports](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/03/12/knit-with-params/) | | 52 | 2020-02-27 | [Dear past self: blog](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/02/27/get-blogging/) | | 51 | 2020-02-05 | [A Pokémon sprite carousel with {slickR}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/02/05/slickr/) | | 50 | 2020-01-31 | [{orderly} and {drake} at Bioinformatics London](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/01/31/reprobioinformatics/) | | 49 | 2020-01-22 | [Reproducibility in R: three things](https://www.rostrum.blog/2020/01/22/repro-three-things/) | | 48 | 2019-12-27 | [Packages that Sparked Joy in 2019](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/12/27/pkgs-2019/) | | 47 | 2019-12-23 | [Handle London travel data with {oystr}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/12/23/oystr/) | | 46 | 2019-12-08 | [{altcheckr}: check image alt text from R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/12/08/altcheckr/) | | 45 | 2019-11-27 | [A pivotal change to Software Carpentry](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/11/27/pivot/) | | 44 | 2019-11-02 | [Tidyswirl: a tidyverse Swirl course](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/11/02/tidyswirl/) | | 43 | 2019-11-01 | [Build an R package with {usethis}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/11/01/usethis/) | | 42 | 2019-10-22 | [{blogsnip}: an RStudio addin package](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/10/22/blogsnip/) | | 41 | 2019-10-21 | [Git going: Git and GitHub](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/10/21/git-github/) | | 40 | 2019-09-20 | [How do you pronounce {dplyr}?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/09/20/say-package/) | | 39 | 2019-09-12 | [The Carpentries: teach with live coding](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/09/12/live-code/) | | 38 | 2019-09-06 | [{blogdown}: add metadata to Lithium-themed posts](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/09/06/lithium-metadata/) | | 37 | 2019-08-25 | [{holepunch} a {drake} and put it in a Binder](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/08/25/holepunch-drake/) | | 36 | 2019-07-23 | [Can {drake} RAP?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/07/23/can-drake-rap/) | | 35 | 2019-06-20 | [The Mountain Goats with {trelliscopejs}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/06/20/goat-scope/) | | 34 | 2019-06-11 | [A GitHub repo template for R analysis](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/06/11/r-repo-template/) | | 33 | 2019-05-31 | [Make a {brickr} soccer player](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/05/31/brickr-soccer/) | | 32 | 2019-05-24 | [Package a {xaringan} template](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/05/24/xaringan-template/) | | 31 | 2019-05-10 | [Teach a person to {swirl}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/05/10/swirlify/) | | 30 | 2019-04-30 | [Markov-chaining my PhD thesis II](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/30/markov-chain-phd-2/) | | 29 | 2019-04-25 | [Generating the Mountain Goats lyrics](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/25/gen-tmg-lyrics/) | | 28 | 2019-04-14 | [A year of rostrum.blog](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/14/one-year/) | | 27 | 2019-04-07 | [Fix leaky pipes in R](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/07/fix-leaky-pipes/) | | 26 | 2019-03-18 | [A tidyverse functions quiz with {learnr}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/03/18/tidyverse-quiz/) | | 25 | 2019-03-04 | [Web scraping the {polite} way](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/03/04/polite-webscrape/) | | 24 | 2019-02-27 | [What’s your Hadley Number?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/02/27/hadley-number/) | | 23 | 2019-02-14 | [Graphing the Relayverse of podcasts](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/02/14/relayverse/) | | 22 | 2019-02-01 | [Git going: the command line](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/02/01/git-going-cl/) | | 21 | 2019-01-18 | [Map deer-vehicle colisions with {shiny}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/01/18/deer-collisions/) | | 20 | 2019-01-04 | [Motivate yourself with an .Rprofile](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/01/04/rprofile-motivate/) | | 19 | 2018-12-24 | [Travel the NBA with {rvest}, {leaflet} and {osrm}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/12/24/nba-travel/) | | 18 | 2018-11-29 | [Change your {blogdown} fonts](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/11/29/fontface-lithium/) | | 17 | 2018-11-25 | [Quantify colour by {magick}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/11/25/art-of-the-possible/) | | 16 | 2018-11-21 | [Waggle dance with {ggbeeswarm} and {emoGG}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/11/21/waggle-dance/) | | 15 | 2018-11-04 | [Teaching R with Pokémon Go data](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/11/04/r-train-pkmn/) | | 14 | 2018-10-13 | [R session info info](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/10/13/sessioninfo/) | | 13 | 2018-09-24 | [Knitting Club: R Markdown for beginners](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/09/24/knitting-club/) | | 12 | 2018-09-12 | [EARL 2018: {crosstalk} in memes](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/09/12/crosstalk-memes/) | | 11 | 2018-07-26 | [Engifification in R with {gifski}](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/26/engifification-in-r-with-gifski/) | | 10 | 2018-07-17 | [Footballers are younger than you](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/17/world-cup-age-app/) | | 9 | 2018-07-12 | [How accessible is my post about accessibility?](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/12/accessible-accessibility/) | | 8 | 2018-06-30 | [Markov-chaining my PhD thesis](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/06/30/markov-chain-phd/) | | 7 | 2018-06-26 | [Iterative R Markdown reports for Dawson’s Creek](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/06/26/mail-merge/) | | 6 | 2018-06-05 | [Tid-ye-text with geniusr](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/06/05/tid-ye-text/) | | 5 | 2018-05-25 | [Cloudy with a chance of pie](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/05/25/cloud-pie/) | | 4 | 2018-05-19 | [Pokéballs in Super Smash Bros](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/05/19/pokeballs-in-super-smash-bros/) | | 3 | 2018-05-12 | [Accessibility workshop at \#Sprint18](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/05/12/accessibility-workshop-at-sprint18/) | | 2 | 2018-04-27 | [TWO DOGS IN TOILET ELDERLY LADY INVOLVED](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/04/27/two-dogs-in-toilet-elderly-lady-involved/) | | 1 | 2018-04-14 | [R Trek: exploring stardates](https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/04/14/r-trek-exploring-stardates/) |

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