Ben Harrap
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Ben Harrap
@bharrap.bsky.social
doer of data things at Yardhura Walani
vice president of statsoc.org.au
I do #rstats, surveys, biostatistics, #IDSov
on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands
not Indigenous, non-binary (they/them)
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thanks!
Now I remember that exact image from reading the r4ds book years ago, guess it bit me until now!

I had just written a for loop that compared the sums of all the columns in two supposedly identical data frames just for a quick test and I was surprised that one had a sum of "nearly 0".
January 24, 2026 at 2:24 AM
What happens if you use double square brackets?
January 23, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Dense crackers sound perfect for pretending I'm eating lembas bread, I like this
January 23, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Yeah chilled stuff is first night only, cheese was never gonna last in 39 degree heat I don't care how good the esky is

We're pregrinding beans and making a moka pot for our caffeine needs
January 23, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Haha our lists are almost identical!
January 23, 2026 at 7:49 AM
When they're all 0 it should print "no notes 💅"
January 18, 2026 at 8:32 PM