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Roll Your Own Stats and Geoms in ggplot2 (Part 1: Splines!)
A huge change is coming to ggplot2 and you can get a preview of it over at Hadley's github repo . I've been keenly interested in this as I will be fixing, finishing & porting coordproj to it once it's…
Three New #rstats Twitter Bots To Follow
I engage with the Stack[Overflow|Exchange] community quite a bit and was super-happy @treycausey made the Stack Overflow #rstats bot (@StackOverflowR) since I'm also on Twitter alot (mostly hanging out in #rstats these…
Coloring (and Drawing) Outside the Lines in ggplot
Time for another Twitter-inspired blog post this week, this time from a tweet by…
New Pacakge "docxtractr" - Easily Extract Tables From Microsoft Word Docs
This is more of a follow-up from yesterday's post. The hack and function in said post was fine, but it was limited to uniform tables and made you do more work than you had to. So, there's now a devtools-installable package on github that…
Using R To Get Data *Out Of* Word Docs
NOTE: after reading this post head on over to this new one as it has wrapped this functionality (and more!) into a…
Doh! I Could Have Had Just Used V8!
An R user recently had the need to split a "full, human name" into component parts to retrieve first & last names. The full names could be anything from something simple like "David Regan" to more complex & diverse such as "John Smith…
Track Hurricane Danny (Interactively) with R + leaflet
Danny became the first hurricane of the 2015 Season, so it's a good time to revisit how one might be able to track them with…
cdcfluview - On The Way to "CRAN 7K"
I like to turn coincidence into convergence whenever possible. This weekend, a user of \cdcfluview\ had a question that caused me to notice a difference in behaviour between the package was interacting with CDC FluView API, so I updated…
Adding a CRAN Search Engine to Chrome
Riffing off of the previous post, here's a way to quickly search CRAN (the @RStudio flavor) from the Chrome search…
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…