Version 0.6.0 of the hrbrthemes? package should be hitting a CRAN mirror near you soon. Apart from some general documentation and code cleanup this release includes the dark theme folks have been seeing in blog posts and tweets over the past few months. It’s called theme_ft_rc() since it is an homage to the wonderful new… Continue reading
Tis the season for finding out how well Maine fisherfolk did last year; specifically, Maine lobsterfolk. Most of the news sites in Maine do a feature on the annual landings (here’s one from Bangor Daily News). There was a marked decline — the largest ever — in both poundage and revenue in 2017 and many… Continue reading
Even though it’s still at version `0.4`, the `ggvis` package has quite a bit of functionality and is highly useful for exploratory data analysis (EDA). I wanted to see how geographical visualizations would work under it, so I put together six examples that show how to use various features of `ggvis` for presenting static &… Continue reading
UPDATE: You can now run this as a local Shiny app by entering shiny::runGist(“95ec24c1b0cb433a76a5”, launch.browser=TRUE) at an R prompt (provided all the dependent libraries (below) are installed) or use it interactively over at Shiny Apps. The impending arrival of the first real snowfall of the year in my part of Maine got me curious about… Continue reading
Most of my free coding time has been spent tweaking a D3-based live power outage tracker for Central Maine Power customers (there’s also a woefully less-featured Shiny app for it, too). There is some R associated with the D3 vis, but it’s limited to a cron job that’s makes the CSV files for the sparklines… Continue reading
It started with a local R version and migrated to a Shiny version and is now in full D3 glory. Some down time gave me the opportunity to start a basic D3 version of the outage map, but it needs a bit of work as it relies on a page meta refresh to update (every… Continue reading
UPDATE: A Shiny (dynamic) version of this is now available. We had yet-another power outage this morning due to the weird weather patterns of the week and it was the final catalyst I needed to crank out some R code to map the affected counties. Central Maine Power provides an outage portal where folks can… Continue reading
Don’t let the morons in Congress stop you from visiting our fair state during this beautiful, colorful autumn season. Below is a Google Maps view of known, open campgrounds that will let you experience the best our state has to offer this time of year. Zoom, pan and click on the URLs for more campground… Continue reading