Category: R
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Two pending features to metricsgraphics
I've been slowly prodding the metricsgraphics package towards a 1.0.0 release, but there are some rough edges that still need sorting out. One of them is the ability to handle passing in variables for the x & y accessor values (you can…
Get by with a little (R) help from your friends (at GitHub)
@JennyBryan posted her slides from the 2015 R Summit and they are a must-read for instructors and even general stats/R-folk. She's one of the foremost experts in R+GitHub and her personal and class workflows provide solid patterns worth…
DO Something Nifffty with R
@briandconnelly (of pushoverr fame) made a super-cool post about connecting R to @IFTTT via IFTTT's "Maker" channel. The IFTTT Maker interface to receive events is fairly straightforward and Brian's code worked flawlessly, so it was easy…
metricsgraphics 0.8.5 is now on CRAN!
I'm super-pleased to announce that the Benevolent CRAN Overlords accepted the metricsgraphics package into CRAN over the weekend. Now, you no longer need to rely on github/devtools to use MetricsGraphics.js charts from your R scripts. If…
Animated US Hexbin Map of the Avian Flu Outbreak
The recent announcement of the start of egg rationing in the U.S. made me curious enough about the avian flu outbreak to try to dig into the numbers a bit. I finally stumbled upon a USDA site that had an embedded HTML table of flock…
A quick, incomplete comparison of ggplot2 & rbokeh plotting idioms
I set aside a small bit of time to give rbokeh a try and figured I'd share a small bit of code that shows how to make the "same" chart in both ggplot2 and…
Scraping jQuery DataTable Programmatic JSON with R
School of Data had a recent post how to copy "every item" from a multi-page list. While their post did provide a neat hack, their "words of warning" are definitely missing some items and the overall methodology can be improved upon with…
U.S. Drought Monitoring With Hexbin State Maps in R
On the news, today, of the early stages of drought hitting the U.S. northeast states I decided to springboard off of yesterday's post and show a more practical use of hexbin state maps than the built-in (and still purpose unknown to me)…
GeoJSON Hexagonal "Statebins" in R
There's been lots of buzz about "statebin" maps of late. A recent tweet by @andrewxhill referencing work by @dannydb pointed to a nice shapefile ( alternate link ) that ends up being a really great way to handle statebin maps (and I feel…
More Airline Crashes via the Hadleyverse
I saw a fly-by \#rstats\ mention of more airplane accident data on -- of all places -- LinkedIn (email) today which took me to a \GitHub repo\ by @philjette. It seems there's a \web site\ (run by what seems to be a single human) that…