Catherine Blatter – listings

Different approaches to rename variables

This was usually a rather small post with snippets but turned out to be much more interesting…

An (ever growing) list of random things in R

This post should really just be a random list of things that R can do but I often forget about….

Installing & using multiple R versions aside

I started using the {renv}-package about a year ago and it has saved me multiple times already. What always baffled me though was…

Using tidyr::pivot_longer() and regex for data wrangling

This code shows you how you can effectively wrangle your dataframe from wide to long using tidyr::pivot_longer() comb…

Using purrr::map() to identify available datasets in a list

purrr

Recently I wanted to explore plotting R for the first time and discovered the ggswissmaps-package.

Getting PubMed metadata with RISmed directly into RStudio

RISmed

For my master’s thesis (stay tuned 😎) I came at a point where I was interested in having a closer look at publication meta data (e.g. publications per year)

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