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If your experience is anything like mine you will find yourself with plenty of repetitive tasks to complete alongside your more interesting and exciting developmental work. Often these tasks are things like pulling up to date extracts and moving outputs around. Wherever possible I like to save time by automating the performing of these tasks, wr...

Using Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a safe, secure, and efficient way to read and write data from repositories hosted on GitHub. Connecting via SSH authenticates your connection using a private key file stored on your local machine, which can also be password protected for additional security.

Before we can start working with data we need to import it into the R environment. Base R (the language as installed without any additional libraries) provides a number of functions for reading data in multiple formats, but the performance benefits and ease of use of some functions provided by external libraries makes them the go to choice for m...

Git is a free and open source version control system. Its branching model allows for easily trying out ideas and making changes in isolation before merging work together.

R describes itself as a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a complete programming language, particularly well suited to statistical and data analysis. R is known for having a comprehensive range of packages available offering extended functionality, and for its active community.

Power Automate allows us to build automated workflows and can link into many applications. This guide demonstrates using Power Automate to create an API endpoint that we can use to trigger the sending of an email from Outlook using R. The automated process, or flow in Microsoft parlance, provides a simple and secure way to send emails using R wi...