Christmas 2025 – Travel Friday

Another Christmas has passed, the fifth at this address in Nynäshamn. Overall I had a very good December! Calm, comfortable and barely a trace of stress. Personally, I wouldn’t have felt like another Christmas in the mountains, maybe even a repeat of last year’s Christmas holiday in Funäsdalen. However, the children wanted to be home […]

Railroad population | R bloggers

[This article was first published on r.iresmi.net, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report a problem with the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don’t. Eurostar 3213 and 3214 in Marseille-Saint-Charles in 2017 – CC-BY by […]

Open once, close automatically: A resource connection pattern for R | R bloggers

Hanging database connections rarely cause direct data leaks, but are a common cause of outages, reduced performance and availability incidents. In regulated or public sector systems, disruptions in availability can have legal and contractual consequences. Properly managing connections is therefore not only a technical problem, but also a reliability problem. https://devclass.com/2020/03/27/github-reveals-database-infrastructure-was-the-villain-behind-february-spate-of-outages-again/ The third incident on […]

The tip – Why the gap between the edge and the sole is common – Shoegazing.com

If you have Goodyear welted shoes or other similar construction methods with stitched outsoles, you may still find gaps develop between the welt and the midsole or outsole, especially if it is rubber. Here I explain the reason for this, why you shouldn’t worry too much about it and how to fix it if necessary. […]

Travel news week 1: Around Sweden – new hotels and experiences in 2026

Advertisement Advertisement By: The editors | Source: press material Then it was time for the very last travel news round of the year, and with this we look ahead to 2026. This week we pay extra attention to new experiences in Sweden 2026: Anniversaries, new restaurants, new hotels and new nature and adventure experiences. Many […]

sfRedistribution | R bloggers

[This article was first published on R / Notes, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report a problem with the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don’t. This note documents the release of the sfReapportion package. […]

Understanding data import and export in R: working with CSV and Excel files | R bloggers

Introduction When learning R, most people focus on functions, models, and visualizations. However, many problems in the real world start much earlier data import phase – and end much later – with export results. If data is misread, no statistical method can save the analysis. In this post we will focus on the logic of […]