In my second post on this blog, I expressed an interest in learning how to build desktop applications. I have yet to pursue that interest. Instead, I've primarily continued developing Shiny apps deployed on the web (but see Shiny-Scorekeeper). Recently, t…

When I started learning Scheme (R6RS), I took the common approach of learning a new language by implementing features from familiar languages (namely R). That approach sent me down the path of writing the dataframe library and porting gnuplot-pipe from Ch…