Category: R
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Plot the new SVG R logo with ggplot2
High resolution and SVG versions of the new R logo are finally available. I converted the SVG to WKT (file here) which means we can use it like we would a shapefile in R. That includes plotting! Here's a short example of how to read that…
Craft httr calls cleverly with curlconverter
UPDATE curlconverter will now return (as the function return value) a working R function. See the README for…
Alternate R Markdown Templates
The \knitr\/R markdown system is a great way to organize reports and analyses. However, the built-in ones (that come with RStudio/the \rmarkdown\ package) rely on Bootstrap and also use jQuery. There's nothing wrong with that, but the…
Cobble XPath Interactively with the xmlview Package
(If you don't know what XML is, you should probably \read a primer\ before reading this post,) When working with data, one inevitably comes across things encoded in XML. I'm in the "anti-XML" camp, but deal with my fair share of XML in…
The Force: Accounted, in R
Despite being a cybersecurity professional, it's pretty easy to social engineer…
iptools 0.3.0 ("Violet Packet") Now on CRAN with Windows Support!
\iptools\ is a set of tools for working with IP addresses. Not just work, but work \fast\. It's backed by \Rcpp\ and now uses the \AsioHeaders\ package by Dirk Eddelbuettel, which means it no longer needs to \link\ against the monolithic…
Zellingenach: A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names in R
Moritz Stefaner started off 2016 with a \very spiffy post\ on \"a visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names"\. Moritz was \exploring some new data processing & visualization tools\ for the…
World Map Panel Plots with ggplot2 2.0 & ggalt
James Austin (@awhstin) made some #spiffy 4-panel maps with base R graphics but also posited he didn't use ggplot2…
Update to metricsgraphics 0.9.0 (now on CRAN)
It's been a while since I've updated my \metricsgraphics package\. The hit list for changes includes: - Fixes for the new ggplot2 release (metricsgraphics uses the \movies\ data set which is now in ggplot2movies) - Updated all javascript…
Fear of WaPo Using Bad Pie Charts Has Increased Since Last Year
I woke up this morning to a \headline story from the Washington Post\ on \"Americans are twice as willing to distance Christian extremists from their religion as Muslims\". This post is not about the content of the headline or story. It…