Two unconventional patterns I use when organising R projects are, Anonymous function Use a nameless function to return an object with all the sub functions needed similar to a node.js package. The main advantage is that you don’t litter your default namespace with lot of function names. For example, if your arith.r file has, In …

Finally managed to fix my MacBook Pro (2014 retina 15″)! The issue turned out to be something software related after all. Symptoms: The laptop shuts down abruptly The fan speeds up a lot before shutdown. There is nothing in the logs. The reason of the shutdown is shown as ‘unknown’ The silent shutdowns happen erratically …

I like scripting with shell a lot since it is simple, available almost everywhere and is fast and efficient. Recently while reading this I came across a way to make data processing several times faster using ‘xargs’ command. xargs is the command which takes input from a stdin stream and passes it to a chosen …

I like listening to podcasts when I code. Not only I get to learn something when I am doing mundane tasks but it also acts as a white noise when I am concentration on the task at hand. So recently I wanted to download this podcast from bbc as mp3 files on to my laptop …

jq is amazing. It is an unique combination of javascript and linux shell which gives an immensely powerful tool to work with JSON files (This post gives a introduction to JSON format) . It plays really well with the existing shell tools and has quickly become one of the most used tools in my data …