1225 search results for "ggplot2"

What’s for lunch? Private browsing.

August 23, 2010
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What’s for lunch? Private browsing.

Over at the Mozilla Metrics blog, Mozillan Hamilton Ulmer uses R and ggplot2 to look at when people (or at least, Firefox users that volunteered to share their usage data) enable private browsing. Turns out it isn't just "porn mode" after all: the main use turns out to be lunchtime browsing away from the employer's prying eyes: Follow the...

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Map of Upcoming Ruby Conferences

August 21, 2010
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Map of Upcoming Ruby Conferences

One of the top searches on rubyflow is “conference”.  A recent post showed how to create a map with the location of the 2010 R User Conference.  So why not expand on the subject and create a map with numerous conference locations thr...

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Programming Language Popularity: StackOverflow and Ohloh

August 17, 2010
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Programming Language Popularity: StackOverflow and Ohloh

In the following example, programming language popularity is measured based upon two data sets.  The first is the number of  contributors associated with a language on ohloh.net.  The second is tag usage at stackoverflow.c...

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Unit Testing in R: The Bare Minimum

August 17, 2010
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Introduction This week I decided to start unit testing my R code, so I taught myself the bare minimum about the RUnit and testthat packages to be able to use them. Here’s what I found necessary to get started writing tests with both packages. RUnit Basic Example I’m going to assume that you’ve got a

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Deducer: R and ggplot2 GUI

August 16, 2010
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Last Year I introduced you to R Commander, a nice graphical user interface (GUI) for R for those of you who are still hesitant to leave the clicky-box style research a la SPSS for the far more superior reproducible research using R. As most of you know...

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Rose plot using Deducers ggplot2 plot builder

August 16, 2010
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The (excellent!) LearnR blog had a post today about making a rose plot in ggplot2. Following today’s announcement, by Ian Fellows, regarding the release of the new version of Deducer (0.4) offering a strong support for ggplot2 using a GUI plot builder, Ian also sent an e-mail where he shows how to create a rose plot using the new...

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In case you missed it: July Roundup

August 16, 2010
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In case you missed them, here are some articles from July of particular interest to R users. We reviewed the updates to Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 and plyr packages. We linked to an article about R co-creator Ross Ihaka in New Zealand's Sunday Star Times. We noted that the presentations from the R/Finance 2010 conference are available for download. We...

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ggplot2 plot builder is now on CRAN! (through Deducer 0.4 GUI for R)

August 16, 2010
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Ian fellows, a hard working contributer to the R community (and a cool guy), has announced today the release of Deducer (0.4) to CRAN (scheduled to update in the next day or so). This major update also includes the release of a new plug-in package (DeducerExtras), containing additional dialogs and functionality. Following is the e-mail he sent out with...

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Gone Guerrill_ R on Our Data

August 16, 2010
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Here's a summary of some things we learnt about applying R to computer performance and capacity planning data in the GDAT Class last week.

  • Neural nets pkg nnet applied to CPU performance data in the Ripley and Venables book (see Section 8.10).
  • How to do stacked plots that Jim calls "spark plots."
  • Jim told...

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Gone Guerrill_ R on Our Data

August 16, 2010
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Here's a summary of some things we learnt about applying R to computer performance and capacity planning data in the GDAT Class last week.

  • Neural nets pkg nnet applied to CPU performance data in the Ripley and Venables book (see Section 8.10).
  • How to do stacked plots that Jim calls "spark plots."
  • Jim told...

    Read more »