I’m sure this one will be obvious to many readers, but it wasn’t to me, so I’m going to share it. A bash script is a file that you can run at the command line in Linux/Unix environments to automate something. In my case, I have a Java program that I need to run over [...] Read more »
Let’s say you have a list of values in a vector. And you want to be able to convert that into a delimited string. In some languages (such as Python), you can do this easily with the join method. But how would you do this in R?
This can be done with the paste function. The [...] Read more »
Suppose you have an object in Python that you retrieved from a third-party library, but you don’t have access to the source code or to very good documentation. Believe me, it happens (and did to me today). You can use a simple built-in method in Python to find out which methods are exposed by a [...] Read more »
I recently had a scenario where part of what I wanted to do was in Java, and the other part was in an application that was written in Python. Rather than than rewrite my entire code base in one language or the other, I wanted to find a (quick and dirty) way to invoke the [...] Read more »