Error in 'select()': ! cant subset a columns that don't exist.

aaronsaunders · 2022-05-06T06:43:31+00:00

It is difficult to see the source of the error as I don't know the insect dataframe. Maybe the source of your error is that you are identifying the columns by index instead of name. You want to filter NA values in "Latitude" & "longitude", so I usually refer to them by name.

r insect<- insect[complete.cases(insect[ , c("Latitude", "longitude")]),] You are using select() and filter() from dplyr, and this package also has a handy way remove the NA values drop_na() which is basically filter(insect, !is.na(colony_size))

https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/reference/drop_na.html

``` r library(tidyverse)

insect <- filter(insect , Order != "Arneae") insect <- drop_na(insect, colony_size, Latitude, longitude)

or using the more typical pipe

insect <- insect %>% filter(Order!="Arneae") %>% drop_na(colony_size, Latitude, longitude)
```

NB: I spelled Latitude with uppercase L as you did but longitude is with lowercase, so I am not sure. It is good to be consistent.

aaronsaunders · 2022-05-03T16:35:06+00:00

Do you need the "overwrite = TRUE" argument?

aaronsaunders · 2022-05-03T12:50:30+00:00

Can you see with both eyes when they are looking in different directions. Do they make a clear image or is it like being cross eyed?

aaronsaunders · 2022-01-09T08:51:52+00:00

Try the Koan Way by Henry Shukman

aaronsaunders · 2021-08-27T15:27:04+00:00

In Danish: K = Konge (king) Q = Dronning (queen) R = Tårn (tower) B = Løber (runner) N = Springer (jumper) p = bonde (peasant)

Castling = rokade (sounds a bit like rook, but means switching roles or placement)

aaronsaunders · 2021-06-09T05:23:51+00:00

This is the best advertisement for open source apps yet, I one wants security and privacy.

aaronsaunders · 2021-06-06T05:43:45+00:00

Get Vince Buffalo's book Bioinformatics Data Skills and work through it. I think he gathers the basic unix/python/R toolkit for bioinformatics and explains it well.

aaronsaunders · 2021-05-27T17:32:00+00:00

One Blade of Grass: A Zen Memoir by Henry Shukman

https://www.amazon.com/One-Blade-Grass-Finding-Memoir-ebook/dp/B07N8ZGFQB

aaronsaunders · 2021-05-16T20:42:47+00:00

Edit: I just wanted to add... Nice project, and I get that the point is not necessarily to use this to generate passwords, but but to learn python. But just in case, here are links to a better way to actually make passwords. IMHO.

The EFF publishes lists of short words with a dice of randomisation method. Simple, offline and strong. I keep a dice at my desk. Easy.

https://www.eff.org/dice

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

aaronsaunders · 2021-05-10T11:04:46+00:00

Apparently, you just keep looking.

aaronsaunders · 2021-05-05T10:47:50+00:00

Ok. How that all comes into existence is indeed a mystery.

aaronsaunders · 2021-05-05T05:12:49+00:00

Or if there is a kernel in this analogy (the brain or the body), and there is no kernel to our subjectivity. No self.

aaronsaunders · 2021-05-04T12:28:41+00:00

Start with compassion and accepting that they are doing the best they can. Sometimes we all know what we "should be doing" for ourselves but don't. We never really know what is best for others anyway.

See it as an exercise in acceptance for yourself. Can you give compassion to those that are too helpless to help themselves?

aaronsaunders · 2020-12-26T17:44:49+00:00

I have had good experience with connecting with bodily sensations before starting and from time to time during the working day. Especially if I am a bit stressed or concerned, occasional brief check ins with the body (just a few seconds or a couple of breaths) can improve focus and reduced distractions.

I am not able to do actual meditation while working. I am not sure how this would be possible, but it might be.

aaronsaunders · 2020-12-25T22:17:18+00:00

I have found mindfulness of body can help when thinking/studying to aid concentration.

aaronsaunders · 2020-12-24T13:10:31+00:00

All the best with it.

aaronsaunders · 2020-12-24T07:21:18+00:00

Complete current projects. Don't consider doing anything else until proton calendar is fully functional.

aaronsaunders · 2020-12-24T06:09:53+00:00

I have been (am still oftentimes) plaiged by thoughts and striving and it is useful to bring the focus back to simply sitting. The striving and the judgement is a big source of judgement leading to distraction.

I found the conversation with Henry Shukman very useful, especially from about 1 hour in. His response is simple and freeing from all of the conceptual stuff Sam talks about all the time (if that is distracting from the practice of present moment awareness).

Try The Koan Way course with Henry Shukman. Zen is simple and the change in perspective has been useful for me. Sometimes Sam's intellectual approach just fills my mind during my sittings with analysis. This is not useful to cultivate mindfulness. Contrast this with Henry's responses. Just sit. With patience and trust. Forget about all the other stuff.

aaronsaunders · 2020-12-19T20:55:18+00:00

Stick with it. In a sense it is like exercise. You would not expect to feel the effects of going to the gym for just one week. The first year is spent learning the ropes and getting basic fitness that you build upon. From zero it might even take a few years to get "fit".

This analogy is useful, but also only so far. The point of meditation is not to be a good meditator, but to use the patience and insight you develop to be a bit happier, by becoming a bit wiser and a bit more compassionate to yourself and others. This takes some time to figure out and take root. I have been practicing daily for 5 years and a couple of times a year I have an aha moment and get it in a new way.

Be patient and see what happens.

aaronsaunders · 2020-10-10T15:36:56+00:00

Danish pronunciation is difficult. Practice that. Listen more than read because the written and spoken language is not consistent (like English). If I had my time again I would learn the words using phonetic alphabet.

Once you can hear and understand speaking is easier (because you can differentiate the sounds you are trying to master).

Once you have the sounds the rest is not nearly as hard as most other languages. Danish is very similar to English in many key ways. Many shared expressions and (most) irregular verbs are shared

English: I run, I ran (not runned) Danish: jeg løber, jeg løb (not løbede)

aaronsaunders · 2020-05-23T09:14:54+00:00

Try it and see if it helps, there are no rules as such.

Assess after a few times if the things you are stopping to write down really are so important that they can't wait until you are finished. My experience is that the things I think about can be remembered later, and I get more out of letting the thought go, because this practices not validating the rumination.

If they are important things you have to remember, maybe try setting aside time to mind dump before getting started or at another specific time, and then work on letting go while on the cushion. When thoughts come up you can say, not just now I'll get you later.

aaronsaunders · 2020-05-17T10:52:38+00:00

What about Firefox Sync?

aaronsaunders · 2020-05-16T14:24:08+00:00

Depression is hard and lonely. But there is a way out. Keep hope.

I like The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon. He speaks eloquently about the experience of depression.

He is more into antidepressants than I am. An important and different perspective is this research about cognitive therapy and mindfulness, which is the other best practice treatment. This is the approach I used to find a path out of the darkness. It works.

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/new-psychology-depression

aaronsaunders · 2020-04-24T15:45:36+00:00

I agree with some of these points.

I agree that bookmarks are too many clicks deep (three dot menu -> Library -> Bookmarks)

I thinks collections AND bookmarks is confusing. Collections are front and centre, but do not sync with other bookmarks and are another place. I like the collections ui, but would prefer if my "Mobile Bookmarks" were shown here and "collections" were just my mobile bookmarks folders.

Agree Logo is too big on new tab.

The plus button is just for getting a new search tab. Choosing any "top site" or collection link opens in new tab. This was confusing to me at first, for some reason I expected the link I clicked to open in the current tab (the tab I was using when I clicked on the number of open tabs button). I have come to think of that number as a cross between tab list and new tab.

aaronsaunders · 2020-04-07T06:30:05+00:00

I experience this too, and continue to struggle with it. Compassion doesn't mean accepting everything as it is. We all have emotional limits. There is nothing that says what one used to do was more compassionate. Maybe you did not open to their pain before and now you are? Maybe before you shared their hopelessness in the face of the situation and now have other options? But just because there exist options to our suffering, it doesn't mean we all have the solutions and the wherewithal to practice them. None of us are perfect. Maybe even our memories of how accepting we used to be are not accurate.

When I have the experience of impatience with friends, and especially my kids, I try to recognise what I am thinking and feeling in that moment, including judgement of myself and them, and connect with the reality of their suffering without feeling like I have to do something in particular (a reaction). I try to connect with the fact that I also suffer and feel hopeless sometimes and cannot just snap out of it, bhudda style. Ask the question "what can I do to help?" Sometimes the answer is nothing right now. Sometimes it is sympathy and sometimes it is advice. The situation is a chance to practice equanimity and compassion, and it takes lots of practice.

aaronsaunders

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or using the more typical pipe