I am quite confident using make to create complex reports. As I dig into R I see they have an interesting work flow creating packages. It addresses a few important issues - tracking dependent packages, documenting stuff and testing. Most important packaging and installing on other systems can be done automatically using a single command. I want that.
I found Makefiles mentioned several times included in the documentation - but so far haven’t figured out how they are supposed to be used.
I have just released a simple package to read PTR-TOF h5 files. This used to be part of a larger project on developing a pipeline for working with PTR-TOF files, but stripped from all experimental functions. The other package should become a paper, so hold on for that.
The package can be found at bdcaf/rawTof.
I wanted to play with word clouds for some time. Usually the problem is to obtain a nice corpus. Luckily PubMedWordCloud was recently updated and I had something to play with.
The initial cloud looks not good enough - I did not like how plurals are counted separately. Since I couldn’t clean it up easy enough I ended up going back to the tm package and roll my own script. Unfortunately it’s far from publishable.
