Expressing timestamp data in calendar

Unlike composing a text memos and keeping tracks of those, calendar graphics is a highly effective visual aid to taking notes and summarizing them. Well, we all have used calendar, one way or the other, in our lifetimes.

Calendar based graphics enables an accurate catch at the very first glance; For example, it is very easy relating one activity of a period to another when they are laid linearly with precise graduations. Calendar graphics does exactly that – some features (usually tiles) provide graduation, representing fixed interval of time (e.g., a day). This when combined with text allows unlimited freedom to provide narration for specific intervals.

Agriculture development chronology in Nepal

Toolbox for working with Unicode and Nepali fonts

Here’s a collection of excellent python scripts to convert back and forth among unicode and preeti font. To convert unicode text to preeti font:

https://github.com/globalpolicy/UnicodeToPreeti

To convert preeti font to unicode text:

https://github.com/globalpolicy/PreetiToUnicode

Memorize the date? Don’t need to, use lubridate

My sufferance

Time and again, I’ve suffered due to my humanistic limitations of memorizing things promptly. I suck at remembering stuffs, dates particularly. So, In this blog trip (Oh! this is a trip btw, because I don’t forsee myself surpassing my memory limitations any sooner than death), I will be stating if not rambing on some lifesaving tricks of picking up pieces of your faulty brain.

The balm

I’m getting into the details of using base R’s date() and date related functions. At this time, It’s might seem relevent to have some understanding of “POSIXlt” and “POSIXct” object classes. But most often these never interfere unless you have a good – not expecting perfect – conscience of how you recorded your dates and what you eventually intent to achieve from it. Anyway, for a quick reference, here I’ve quoted the R’s documentation on ?DateTimeClasses: