Category: R
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R⁶ — Snow Day Facets
Back in 2014 I blogged about first snowfall dates for a given U.S. state. It's April 1, 2017 and we're slated to get 12-18" of snow up here in Maine and @mrshrbrmstr asked how often this — snow in May — has occurred near…
All-in on R⁶ : Progress [bars] on first post
@eddelbuettel's idea is a good one. (it's a quick read…jump there and come back). We'll avoid confusion and call it R⁶ over here. Feel free to don the…
Exploring 2017 Retail Store Closings with R
A story about one of the retail chains (J.C. Penny) releasing their list of stores closing in 2017 crossed paths with my Feedly reading list today and jogged my memory that there were a number of chains closing many of their doors this…
Making a Case for case_when
This is a brief (and likely obvious, for some folks) post on the dplyr::casewhen()…
Candy Coated Confidence Intervals
@mrshrbrmstr hinted that she would like this post by @RickWicklin translated into R for her stats class. She's quite capable of cranking out the translation of the core component of that post — a call to chisq.test — but she wanted to show…
hrbrthemes 0.1.0 is now on CRAN
I'm pleased to announce the inaugural release of my hrbrthemes (0.1.0) package on…
On Watering Holes, Trust, Defensible Systems and Data Science Community Security
I've been threatening to do a series on "data science community security" for a while and had cause to issue this inaugural post today. It all started with…
Putting It All Together
The kind folks over at @RStudio gave a nod to my recently CRAN-released epidata package in their January data package roundup and I thought it might be useful to give it one more showcase using the recent CRAN update to ggalt and the new…
ggalt 0.4.0 now on CRAN
I'm uncontainably excited to report that the ggplot2 extension package ggalt is now on CRAN…
Spelunking XHRs (XMLHttpRequests) with splashr
DiagrammeR(" graph LR A-->B A-->C C-->E B-->D C-->D D-->F E-->F ") %>%…