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A Tale of Two Charting Paradigms: Vega-Lite vs R+ggplot2
This post comes hot off the heels of the nigh-feature-complete release of vegalite (virtually all the components of Vega-Lite are now implemented and just need real-world user testing). I've had a few and seen a few questions about "why…
Create Vega-Lite specs & widgets with the vegalite package
Vega-Lite 1.0 was released this past week. I had been meaning to play with it for a while but I've been burned before by working with unstable APIs and was waiting for this to bake to a stable release. Thankfully, there were no new shows…
Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R (Part 1: Graphs)
I put this together after experimenting with ggplot2 and ggnetwork earlier this week. The changes I made added svgPanZoom into the mix. Consequently, it has a widget in it, so it was just easier to embed the full R markdown HTML into an…
Thai Curry Puffs (Karipap • กะหรี่ปั๊บ)
I made Thai curry puffs for @mrshrbrmstr for Valentine's Day (paired with Thai crispy duck red curry) and was asked to post the recipe. There are two versions, one with lard pie dough (#3, #4 & I are dairy sensitive) and one with puff…
Making Faceted Heatmaps with ggplot2
We were doing some exploratory data analysis on some attacker data at work and one of the things I was interested is what were "working hours" by country. Now, I don't put a great deal of faith in the precision of geolocated IP addresses…
Dairy-free Parker House Rolls
Here's a quick/easy recipe for soft roll dough that you can use to make dairy-free Parker House rolls, knot rolls or just plain…
Plot the new SVG R logo with ggplot2
High resolution and SVG versions of the new R logo are finally available…
Craft httr calls cleverly with curlconverter
When you visit a site like the LA Times' NH Primary Live Results site and wish you had the data that they used to make the tables & visualizations on the…
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…