While preparing a class exercise involving the use of overlaying of histogram, I searched Google on possible article or discussion on the said topic. Luckily, I found a blog where the author demonstrated an R function to create an overlapping histogram...
This was a revised version of my previous post about the NSCB article. With the suggestion from Tal Galili, below were the new pie charts and the R codes to produce these plots by directly scrapping the data from the webpage using XML and RColorBrewer ...
Recently, my friend posted on her Facebook account about the article published by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) about poverty and unemployment in the country. Looking at the report I saw a lot of tables, so I thought why not ...
The rainfall received by Quezon City, Philippines was almost double of what the city normally receive for the entire month of August, causing flooding and land slide to various villages in the area.
Majority of Metro Manila is affected by floods. Looking at the hourly data from PAGASA weather station located at Bicutan, Taguig, the graph below will gave the viewers of this blog on the rainfall situation in Manila from August 6 (12:00am)-7(11...
Preparing for a future conference on climate change, I downloaded and extracted average monthly rainfall in the Philippines from worldclim.org. Using maptools, raster, and animation package in R, I produced an animation of average monthly rainfall of t...
This blog demonstrates how to produce political/provincial boundary map (below) using R maptools and raster packages. ## Load required packageslibrary(maptools)library(raster) ## Download data from gadm.org adm <- getData('GADM', country='PHL',...
In my previous post, I showed how to make a 3D view of an area using the persp function. However, I felt this was not a complete representation, especially for digital elevation. While looking for some reference for my presentation on the use of R for...
Taken from a previous post in other website, maps below show the locations of epicenters and sequence of earthquakes that struck Negros last February 6, 2012. The bottom image is the animation these maps using animation package in R. Data was taken fr...
Talking about elevation, one can also plot a wire frame 3D view of an area using the persp function. Using the same data source from my previous post, 3D view of Marinduque, Philippines was produced using the following code below: ################...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
