Author: hrbrmstr
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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…
New Pacakge "docxtractr" - Easily Extract Tables From Microsoft Word Docs
This is more of a follow-up from yesterday's post. The hack and function in said post was fine, but it was limited to uniform tables and made you do more work than you had to. So, there's now a devtools-installable package on github that…
Using R To Get Data *Out Of* Word Docs
NOTE: after reading this post head on over to this new one as it has wrapped this functionality (and more!) into a…
Doh! I Could Have Had Just Used V8!
An R user recently had the need to split a "full, human name" into component parts to retrieve first & last names. The full names could be anything from something simple like "David Regan" to more complex & diverse such as "John Smith…