Category: R
Everything filed under R.
Quick Hit: A new 64-bit Swift 5 RSwitch App
At the bottom of the R for macOS Developer's Page there's mention of an "other binary" called "RSwitch" that is "a small GUI that allows you to switch between R versions quickly (if you have multiple versions of R framework installed)."…
Two New Testing-themed Addins + One New and One Updated CRAN Package
It's been yet-another weirdly busy summer but I'm finally catching up on noting some recent-ish developments in the…
Quick Hit: A Different (Diminutive) Look At Distributions With {ggeconodist}
Despite being a full-on denizen of all things digital I receive a fair number of dead-tree print magazines as there's nothing quite like seeing an amazing, large, full-color print data-driven visualization up close and personal. I also…
Quick Hit: {waffle} 1.0 Font Awesome 5 Pictograms and More
The {waffle} package got some ? this week and now has a substantially improved geomwaffle() along with a brand new sibling function geompictogram() which has all the powerful new features of geomwaffle() but lets you use Font Awesome 5…
Make Refreshing Segmented Column Charts with {ggchicklet}
The first U.S. Democratic debates of the 2020 election season were held over two nights this past week due to the daft number of candidates running for POTUS. The spiffy @NYTgraphics folks took the tallies of time spent blathering by each…
Quick hit: 'dig'-ging Into r-project.org DNS Records with {processx}
The r-project.org domain had some temporary technical difficulties this week (2019-29) that made reaching R-related resources problematic for a bunch of folks for a period of time. Incidents like this underscore the need for regional and…
Quick Hit: Above the Fold; Hard wrapping text at 'n' characters
Despite being on holiday I'm getting in a bit of non-work R coding since the fam has a greater ability to sleep late than I do. Apart from other things I've been working on a PR into {lutz}, a package by @andyteucher that turns lat/lng…
Quick hit: Some ggplot2 Stat ? for {logspline}
I've become a big fan of the {logspline} package over the past ~6 months and decided to wrap up a manual ggplot2 plotting process (well, it was at least in an RStudio snippet) into a small {ggplot2} Stat to make it easier to visualize…
Introducing the {ethercalc} package
I mentioned EtherCalc in a previous post and managed to scrounge some time to put together a fledgling {ethercalc} package (it's also on GitLab, SourceHut, Bitbucket and GitUgh, just sub out the appropriate URL…
Makeover Jambalaya: Beating Dumbbells into Slopegraphs Whilst Orchestrating EtherCalc
This morning, @kairyssdal tweeted out the following graphic from…