Sam Clifford

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icon company London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine icon location London, United Kingdom icon location Formerly an applied mathematician I now work in spatial and spatio-temporal modelling for a range of environmental and medical science problems.

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julia_setup() doesn't work

I find myself in the same situation. Loads fine on my MacBook but on my Windows machine, RStudio announces the session has been aborted after the Console shows the message...

julia_setup() doesn't work

Julia nightly stopped working after a while. Not sure what's happened there. Testing on a Linux box now.

Affixing colours for R classes in `vis_dat`

Make an ontology of data types, map it to a spectrum and line up the colours. Character and factor are similar, so colour them similarly. Dates are written as text...

Package: fit discretised distributions to match expected distributional properties

I'm not sure that least squares is the best measure of goodness of fit. The documentation of [fitdistrplus::fitdist()](https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/fitdistrplus/versions/1.0-14/topics/fitdist) indicates that goodness of fit measures tend not to be appropriate for...

migrate plyr::mapvalues() to vctrs?

My replacement for loading plyr is to use the following lines: `mapvalues