100 search results for "googlevis"

An R-based Research Notebook – Test

September 30, 2012
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The following are from Tom Torsney-Weir’s blog (here’s the repo).

  • Simple MathJax and R example
  • A more complex example with caching
<!--begin.rcode test2,cache=TRUE x.vals <- runif(10) y.vals
  • Another plotting example using ggplot
<!--begin.rcode test3,cache=TRUE, message=FALSE library(ggplot2) c <!--begin.rcode test4,cache=TRUE, message=FALSE, results='asis' suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(googleVis)) ## Table with embedded links PopTable

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Plot R Data With googleVis

September 30, 2012
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Here is a little code snippet that shows how to do two things

  1. Use the Google Maps API to resolve place names into lat-long coordinate pairs.
  2. Plot R dataframes that contain lat-long data (for example from #1) onto Google Maps for quick visualization using the googleVis package.  The embedded map looks a little wonky here but it looks...

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Use GBIF and googleVis to Make Maps with Species Occurrence Data

September 24, 2012
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Use GBIF and googleVis to Make Maps with Species Occurrence Data

This is a short follow up on THIS posting.. I will briefly show how to use the dismo- and the googeVis package to plot species occurrences on an interactive Google map, like the one below (HERE is the R-script)






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Religious restrictions index: how do countries compare?

September 21, 2012
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The Guardian DataBlog published yesterday an interesting article exploring graphically the religious intolerance across the world. The data are coming from a report published by Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life. I like the philosophy DataBlog a lot, providing the raw data for everyone to look at.
However, I felt that the visualization could be...

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googleVis — Diaoyu Islands

September 14, 2012
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googleVis — Diaoyu Islands

China just announced the Diaoyu Islands baselines yesterday (US EST). Take a look at their locations (Clike here for the google map).

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R Package Vignettes with Markdown

September 10, 2012
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What is the best resource to learn an R package? Many R users know the almighty question mark ? in R. For example, type ?lm and you will see the documentation of the function lm. If you know nothing about a package, you can take a look at the HTML help...

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Interactive web graphs with R – Overview and googleVis tutorial

September 5, 2012
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Interactive web graphs with R – Overview and googleVis tutorial

Today I feel very lucky, as I have been invited to the Royal Statistical Society conference to give a tutorial on interactive web graphs with R and googleVis. I prepared my slides with RStudio, knitr, pandoc and slidy, similar to my Cambridge R talk. ...

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Facts About R Packages (2)

August 29, 2012
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R Packages All Well maintained? There are so many R packages, can they all be trusted? or are they well maintained? To answer this question, we just need to take a look of their archive histories. If a package has many versions, we can take that as th...

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Facts About R Packages (1)

August 29, 2012
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R Packages growth Curve Why R is so popular? There are a lot of reasons, such as: easy to learn and convenient to use, active community, open source, etc. Another important reason is the numerous contributed packages. Up to yesterday, there are 4033 R...

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googleVis — NASA’s exploration of Mars

August 29, 2012
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googleVis — NASA’s exploration of Mars

After generating a few interactive charts with googleVis, I realized that it’s a great way to visualize numeric data, especially multi-dimentional data. Days ago, my colleague sent me a picture taken by Curiosity from Mars. He was crazy about it … Continue reading

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