Category: R
Everything filed under R.
Speeding Up Your Quest(s) For "R Stuff"
I use Google quite a bit when conjuring up R projects, whether it be in a lazy pursuit of a PDF vignette or to find a package or function to fit a niche need. Inevitably, I'll do something like this (yeah, I'm still on a mapping kick) and…
Achieve Charting Zen With TauCharts
There was some chatter on the twitters this week about a relatively new D3-based charting library called TauCharts (also @taucharts). The API looked pretty clean and robust, so I started working on an htmlwidget for it and was quickly…
Two New R Packages - qrencoder & passwordrandom
Believe it or not, there are two [ 1 ] [ 2 ] questions on @StackOverflowR about how to make QR codes in R. I personally think QR codes are kinda hokey, but who am I to argue with pressing needs of the #rstats community? I found libqrencode…
Introducing the nominatim geocoding package
In the never-ending battle for truth, justice and publishing more R packages than Oliver, I whipped out an R package for the OpenStreetMap Nominatim API. It actually hits the MapQuest Nominatim Servers for most of the calls, but the…
Making Static/Interactive Voronoi Map Layers In ggplot/leaflet
Despite having shown various ways to overcome D3 cartographic envy , there are always more examples that can cause the green monster to rear it's ugly…
Roll Your Own Gist Comments Notifier in R
As I was putting together the coordproj ggplot2 extension I had posted a gist that I shared on Twitter. Said gist received a comment (several, in fact) and a bunch of us were painfully reminded of the fact that there is no built-in way to…
A Path Towards Easier Map Projection Machinations with ggplot2
The $DAYJOB doesn't afford much opportunity to work with cartographic datasets, but I really like maps and tinker with shapefiles and geo-data when I can, plus answer a ton of geo-questions on StackOverflow. R makes it easy—one might even…
Using the new 'viridis' colormap in R (thanks to Simon Garnier)
Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt presented a new colormap (for Python) at SciPy 2015 called viridis…
R Package to access the Open Movie Database (OMDB) API
It's not on CRAN yet, but there's a devtools -installable R package for getting data from the OMDB API…
Faceted "World Population by Income" Choropleths in ggplot
Poynter did a nice interactive piece on world population by income (i.e. "How Many Live on How Much, and Where" ). I'm always on the lookout for optimized shapefiles and clean data (I'm teaching a data science certificate program starting…