Ten random useful things in R that you might not know about

R is full of useful stuff. Here are a few things that I use a lot which others may not know about.

Keith McNulty
Towards Data Science
7 min readApr 6, 2019

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Often I find myself telling my colleagues and fellow coders simple things that I use in R that really help me with the tasks that I need to progress on. These range from trivial shortcuts, to little known functions, to handy little tricks.

Because the R ecosystem is so rich and constantly growing, people can often miss out on knowing about…

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