If you have eight hours to cut down a tree, it is best to spend six hours sharpening your axe and then two hours cutting down the tree. Anonymous, on the benefits of having good tools A long time ago, I started my day by opening a tab of three websites — Dilbert, Non-Sequitur, and another comic strip I’ve forgotten at the moment. It was a great start into the day, because — usually — at least one of the comic strips made me laugh, or at least smile. And it’s great to develop a different perspective — to see the world differently. I’m no longer starting my days this way, but I still like those strips. And recently I noticed that I had not looked at them in a while. Unfortunately, it can be hard to continue with the strips. Did I already see that comic strip? Even if you download them, often they are not named by date. So I decided to simply download these strips again. Instead of going through each page and download the strip manually, I decided to write an R script. While R is usually used for statistics, it is surprisingly flexible. And after [...]
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