Dotplots are useful for the graphical visualization of small to medium-sized datasets. These simple plots provide an overview of how the data is distributed, whilst also showing the individual observations. It is however possible to make the simple dotplots more informative by overlaying them with data summaries and/or smooth ...

TL;DR: Check out the vignette or the development version of httr. The package I put most time and effort in this year is curl. Last week version 0.8 was published on CRAN which fixes the last outstanding bug for Solaris. The package is pretty much done at this point: stable, ...

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                                                                                                                                                                                            “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than other.”                                     “Four legs good, two legs bad.” from Animal Farm by George Orwell Note: This post is largely intended for those who are embarking on their journey into the world of programming. […]

One of the foundational principles of the web, though I suspect ever fewer people know it, is that you can “View Source” on a web page to see what bits of HTML, Javascript and CSS are used to create it. In the WordPress editor I’m currently writing in, I’...