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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…
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…