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Sublime-style multiple cursors in Jupyter

Jupyter Notebooks Jupyter Notebooks are great for visualizing and sharing results with others. Learning the keyboard shortcuts tremendously improves productivity while using Jupyter Notebooks. By default, you can see the keyboard shortcuts hel... Read more 19 Mar 2016 - 2 minute read -

A new look using Trio

I decided to switch the theme of my Jekyll blog from Pixyll to Trio. Pixyll is a great theme and I learned a lot from using it. I decided it was time for a change. I wrote Trio as a hobby and to learn how Jekyll works in detail. The content of th... Read more 24 Dec 2015 - 1 minute read -

Time is TRUE, Female is FALSE

Introduction R has two reserved words denoting logical constants, namely TRUE and FALSE. These are case sensitive literals and you cannot create a variable or a function named TRUE or FALSE. > TRUE <- 1 Error in TRUE <- 1 : invalid (do_s... Read more 31 Aug 2015 - 15 minute read -

Never trust rownames of a dataframe

Introduction Dataframes in R have both column names and row names. Column names, which are used frequently, give the dataframes in R their characteristic distinction. Row names, on the other hand, are rarely used. Usually, row names appear to be t... Read more 16 Jun 2015 - 17 minute read -

The Colon "Operator" in R

Background Colon (":") is an operator1 in R2 that generates regular sequences. We can take a look at the documentation of the ":" function1 by typing in > ?":" at the prompt. We can generate a vector of integers from 1 to 10 (both inclusive)... Read more 16 May 2015 - 14 minute read -

Color highlighting for diff in ST3

I frequently need to perform a diff on two of my open views in Sublime Text 3. I use the EasyDiff package for this purpose. This package works nicely and shows me the diff changes in a new ST3 tab. The only problem was that the changes showed up w... Read more 08 Feb 2015 - 1 minute read -