Several R packages provide an interface to query map services (Google Maps, Stamen Maps or OpenStreetMap) to obtain raster images …

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As data analytics consulting firm, we think we are fortunate that we keep finding problems to find. Recently my team mate found a glaring problem of not having any connector for R with Google. With the inspiration from Michael, Ajay O, it soon become a worth problem to solve. With RGoogleAnalytics package now, we have

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As data analytics consulting firm, we think we are fortunate that we keep finding problems to find. Recently my team mate found a glaring problem of not having any connector for R with Google. With the inspiration from Michael, Ajay O, it soon become a worth problem to solve. With RGoogleAnalytics package now, we have

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We (rOpenSci) have been writing code for R packages for a couple years, so it is time to take a look back at the data. What data you ask? The commits data from GitHub ~ data that records who did what and when.

Using the Github commits API we can gather data on who commited code to a...

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We (rOpenSci) have been writing code for R packages for a couple years, so it is time to take a look back at the data. What data you ask? The commits data from GitHub ~ data that records who did what and when.

Using the Github commits API we can gather data on who commited code to a...

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A blend between a basic scatterplot, lattice scatterplot and a ggplot In a recent post I compared the Cairo packages with the base package for exporting graphs. Matt Neilson was kind enough to share in...

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Installing and changing fonts in your plots comes now easy with the extrafonts-package. There is a excellent tutorial on the extrafonts github site, still I will shortly demonstrate how it worked for me. First, install the package and load it. You can now install the desired system fonts (at the moment only TrueType fonts): The

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Using R and ggplot2 to draw a scatterplot with the two marginal boxplots

Drawing a scatterplot with the marginal boxplots (or marginal histograms or marginal density plots) has always been a bit tricky (well for me anyway). The approach I take here is, first, to draw the three separate plots using ggplot2:

• the scatterplot;
• the horizontal boxplot to appear in the...

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Last week on the radio I heard a story of southern Europeans and Irish looking for better times in northern Europe. I heard the tale of an Italian academic who left Italy to end up waiting tables in an Italian restaurant in the Netherlands. Obviously t...

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I updated the code to use ggsave and tweaked some of the font & line size values for more consistent (and pretty) output. This also means that I really need to get this up on github. If you even remotely follow this blog, you’ll see that I’m kinda obsessed with slopegraphs. While I’m pretty happy

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