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September 2019 Democratic Debates Added to {ggchicklet}
The latest round of the 2020 Democratic debates is over and the data from all the 2019 editions of the debates have been added to {ggchicklet} . The structure of the debates2019 built-in dataset has changed a…
RSwitch 1.4.1 Released
A minor update to RSwitch has been released. Apart from some internal code reorganization there are three user-facing…
RSwitch 1.4.0 Released
Swift 5 has been so much fun to hack on that there's a new update to macOS R-focused mebubar utility RSwitch available. Along with the app comes a new dedicated RSwitch landing page and a new user's guide since it has enough features to…
Improvements to RSwitch in v1.3.0
It's only been a couple days since the initial version of my revamped take on RSwitch but there have been numerous improvements since then worth…
Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: "Why Can't Johnny Code?")
I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can’t Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same subject and you should read both before…
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…