1215 search results for "ggplot2"

Top 10 tips to get started with R

April 2, 2013
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Be motivated. R has a steep learning curve. Find a problem you can't solve otherwise. E.g. plotting multivariate data, a statistical analysis for which an R function exists already. Download and install R. Get to know the R console. Learn how to instal...

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R Tackles Big Garbage

April 1, 2013
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R Tackles Big Garbage

April 1, 2013 – Although the capabilities of the R system for data analytics have been expanding with impressive speed, it has heretofore been missing important fundamental methods. A new function works with the popular plyr package to provide these missing … Continue reading

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The R-Podcast Episode 12: Using Version Control with R

April 1, 2013
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This is not an April Fool’s joke … The R-Podcast is back once again! In this episode, I discuss the concept of version control and how you can get started with using the Git VCS right now with your R projects. Also I discuss a big batch of listener feedback, and highlight a couple of

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Creating a Business Dashboard in R

March 28, 2013
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Creating a Business Dashboard in R

Business dashboards are available in many shapes and sizes. Business dashboards are useful to create an overview of key performance indicators (KPIs) important for the business strategy and/or operations. There are many flavours of dashboard frameworks and apps available, ranging in price from thousands of dollars to open-source implementations. Apparently  Read more »

Moving to R 3.0.0 on Ubuntu

March 27, 2013
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As you may (or may not) be aware of, R 3.0.0 is scheduled to be released on April 3rd. Since this is a major release and there may be some growing pains (but I hope not) in the move 3.0.0, here is some information about how I will handle R 3.0.0 on CR...

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i Before e Except After c

March 26, 2013
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i Before e Except After c

When I went to school we were always taught the “i before e, except after c” rule for spelling. But how accurate is this rule? Kevin Marks tweeted today the following:

»@uberfacts: There are 923 words in the English language that break the “I before E” rule. Only 44 words actually follow that rule.« Science

— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks)

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Introduction to Simulation using R

March 23, 2013
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Introduction to Simulation using R

We had a great turnout yesterday for our Zero to R Hero workshop at the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science. We went from the absolute basics of the command line, to the intricacies of importing data, and finally we had a look at plotting using ggplot2. We didn’t have time to get to this extra module

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Plotting lm and glm models with ggplot #rstats

March 22, 2013
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Plotting lm and glm models with ggplot #rstats

Update I followed the advice from Tim’s comment and changed the scaling in the sjPlotOdds-function to logarithmic scaling. The screenshots below showing the plotted glm’s have been updated. Summary In this posting I will show how to plot results from … Weiterlesen 

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Data visualisation talk: Presentation using reports package

March 21, 2013
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Data visualisation talk: Presentation using reports package

Why I used html5 for my today’s talk?   My last presentation was in html5. This time I wanted to do my slides in something new.  I prepared  first few slides in Jessyink. Then I got to know that my friend … Continue reading

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Using R: Correlation heatmap with ggplot2

March 21, 2013
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Using R: Correlation heatmap with ggplot2

Just a short post to celebrate that I learned today how incredibly easy it is to make a heatmap of correlations with ggplot2 (and reshape2, of course). So, what is going on in that short passage? cor makes a correlation matrix with all the pairwise correlations between variables (twice; plus a diagonal of ones). melt

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