1338 search results for "ggplot"

Lattice vs. ggplot2

October 28, 2010
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Both lattice and ggplot2 seem really interesting and worthy of learning. But I only have time to learn one of them, and the choice is not an easy one.Here is an awesome reference; this blog is generally very interesting; and here is something...

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Where People Share Links About NYC

October 27, 2010
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Where People Share Links About NYC

Last week I participated in bit.ly’s fourth hackabit hack-a-thon, which is a wonderful opportunity for NYC area hackers to get together, eat pizza, drink energy drinks, and stay up late hacking with some of the best data geeks around. I was lucky enough to saddle up next to Hilary Mason, bit.ly’s lead scientist, recently named

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how to speak ggplot2 like a native, and Predictive Analytics World

October 24, 2010
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I was recently given the opportunity to re-present my ggplot2 talk, which I originally gave to the NYC R Meetup, to the DC R Meetup group. The Meetup was held co-located with the Predictive Analytics World conference in Alexandria, VA. (More on my thoughts on PAW below…) Contentwise, I made only small changes, changing a

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Reader suggestions on alternative ways to create combination dotplot/boxplot

October 24, 2010
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Reader suggestions on alternative ways to create combination dotplot/boxplot

Kudos to several of our readers, who suggested simpler ways to craft the graphical display (combination dotplot/boxplot) from our most recent example.Yihui Xie combines a boxplot with a coarsened version of the PCS scores (using the round() function) u...

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Incremental improvements to Nightlights mapping thanks to R-Bloggers

October 22, 2010
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Incremental improvements to Nightlights mapping thanks to R-Bloggers

The R community is very generous and collaborative. This post walks through the suggestions left by commenters to my previous post on Steve Mosher's Nightlights work, and show the resulting much-improved output.

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upgrade R – F77 cause compilation error

October 20, 2010
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I try to compile the source code of R 2.12 on CentOS, but it throw an error when trying to install *cluster*. * installing *source* package ‘cluster’ ... Read More: 3800 Words Totally

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Monitoring Productivity Experiment

October 20, 2010
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Monitoring Productivity Experiment

For over a year now, i've been collecting how much time i spend in computer and how much of it is actually used in creative/productive activities. By productive activity i mean that the time spent in text editor(emacs), terminal, excel or a datab...

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Hadley on a Postage Stamp?

October 18, 2010
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Hadley on a Postage Stamp?

Yet another reason to check out the ggplot2 wiki!

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Hadley on a Postage Stamp?

October 18, 2010
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Hadley on a Postage Stamp?

Yet another reason to check out the ggplot2 wiki!

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More Graphics with Google earth

October 18, 2010
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More Graphics with Google earth

Dr. Paul, R graphics guru, blessed us with his rendition of transparent contour maps drawn on a google earth image: Cool stuff. I’ll be taking his code and turning it into a function and sharing it back: here is the picture his code creates: That is just plain slick.  While I was looking over his

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