“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – W. Edwards Deming In a previous post, I had discussed how Rperform uses the grammar of graphics approach to visualize an R package’s performance in terms of runtime and memory usage. The visualizations contribute significantly towards Rperform’s mission to ...

Introducing Badgecreatr, a package to create and place badges in your readme.Rmd file on Github. Badgecreatr will create the following badges (aka shields): Installation Install the package with install.packages("badgecreatr") How do...

Introducing Badgecreatr, a package to create and place badges in your readme.Rmd file on Github. Badgecreatr will create the following badges (aka shields): Installation Install the package with install.packages("badgecreatr") How do you use badgecreatr? Badgecreatr has one main function: badgeplacer(). The most simple command is:

<span>badgecreatr</span><span>::</span><span>badgeplacer</span><span>(</span><span> </span><span>githubaccount</span><span> </span><span>=</span><span> </span><span>"yourgithubname"</span><span>,</span><span>githubrepo</span><span> </span><span>=</span><span> </span><span>"yourpackagename"</span><span>,</span><span> </span><span>branch</span><span> </span><span>=</span><span> </span><span>"master"</span><span>)</span><span>
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My title here is in the sense of “Bad dog, bad dog!”, a scolding I sometimes see dog owners use to tame their pets, and is also an allusion to Bad Reporter, a sometimes hilarious and always irreverent political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle. And my title is ...

This is Part II of the “Express dplyr” posting. If you haven’t already you might want to review Part I of this topic before proceeding although if you have some knowledge of dplyr then by all means proceed. Don’t worry – there are no tests ! In this second part ...

The @pewresearch folks have been collecting political survey data for quite a while, and I noticed the visualization below referenced in a Tableau vis contest entry: Those are filled frequency polygons, which are super-easy to replicate in ggplot2, especially since Pew even kind of made the data available via their ...

As is the case with most quant software, it’s a bit different from run-of-the-mill software. The somewhat prosaic world of …Continue reading →

I love user groups and I always want there to be more. I’m not a perfect organiser but I run reasonable groups. When I see organisers doing it badly, it makes me sad. There’s lots of great ways to run a user group, but I thought I’d ...