Auto-building drat with gh actions

Combining GitHub actions and {drat.builder} makes it easy to create an auto-building drat repository for your R packages

The dating game

Dates are not so sweet It is known: parsing dates entered by humans is a huge pain: Source: https://xkcd.com/1179/ ISO 8601 nerds: a crack has developed in the old way. The new year has wounded both the m/d/yy and the d/m/yy factions. The time is ripe for a new global order. TONIGHT (2020-01-01) WE RIDE https://t.co/1YTL1SWDm2 — Brooke Watson Madubuonwu (@brookLYNevery1) January 1, 2020 Dates are a never-ending source of fresh hell.

Advancing data analytics for field epidemiologists using R: the R4epis innovation project

R4epis is a project to develop standardised data cleaning, analysis and reporting tools to cover common types of outbreaks and population-based surveys that would be conducted in an MSF emergency response setting.