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R’s tryCatch function is a great tool that helps facilitate robust error handling. It lets you try to run a block of code and if an …
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As part of my current postdoctoral research I’ve built the R package coil, which is designed to aid users in DNA barcode data cleaning …
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Note: Here you will find the raw RMarkdown file for this post, in case you want to follow along and execute the code yourself! …
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Older readers of this post may remember the boot screen from Windows XP. This featured a load bar that was there to essentially give a …
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When applying a function to a vector, list or dataframe column, your first instinct may be to iterate across the series of inputs. By …
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There is a problem I often encounter when working on remote access servers through the terminal: how do I set up a script/program to …
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github.com/CNuge/go-fasta I spend a lot of time working with fasta files, the standard for storing of biological sequence information …
2 min read Golang

During a tutorial I gave for the University of Guelph R users group, we were going through how to generate summary stats & tidy …
4 min read R

The template code and setup instructions for this custom email report can be found here on github! Something I have written a few posts …
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