Author: hrbrmstr
Everything written by hrbrmstr.
Less Drama, More Encoding
Junk Charts adeptly noted and fixed this excessively stylized chart from the WSJ this…
Installing R on OS X - "100% Homebrew Edition"
In a previous post I provided "mouse-heavy" instructions for getting R running on your Mac. A few of the comments suggested that an "all Homebrew" solution may be preferable for some folks. Now, there are issues with this since getting…
Installing R on OS X
NOTE: The comments are a must read for this. Some excellent additional advice and "gotchas" by some super-helpful…
Replicating NatGeo's "Proper" Earthquake Map in R
I saw this post over at NatGeo over the weekend and felt compelled to replicate…
For Some Definition of "Directly" and/or "Contort"
Junk Charts did a post on Don't pick your tool before having your design and made a claim that…
A Package Full o' Pirates & Makin' Interactive Pirate Maps in arrrrrRstats
Avast, me hearties! It's time four t' annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day #rstats…
A Better Way To Read Nest Data Into R
I glimpsed a post in the RSS feeds today on how to connect Nest data with a Shiny dashboard and was compelled to post a less brute-force way to get data from the Nest API. The authors of the Shiny+Nest post used system calls to curl and…
Roll Your Own Stats and Geoms in ggplot2 (Part 1: Splines!)
A huge change is coming to ggplot2 and you can get a preview of it over at Hadley's github repo . I've been keenly interested in this as I will be fixing, finishing & porting coordproj to it once it's…
Three New #rstats Twitter Bots To Follow
I engage with the Stack[Overflow|Exchange] community quite a bit and was super-happy @treycausey made the Stack Overflow #rstats bot (@StackOverflowR) since I'm also on Twitter alot (mostly hanging out in #rstats these…
Coloring (and Drawing) Outside the Lines in ggplot
Time for another Twitter-inspired blog post this week, this time from a tweet by…