I’m going to (eventually) write a full post on the package I’m mentioning in this one : osqueryr🔗. The TLDR on osqueryr is that it is an R DBI wrapper (that has just enough glue to also be plugged into dbplyr) for osquery🔗. The TLDR on osquery is that ...

R is a great program for generating top-notch graphics. But to get the best out of it, you need to put in a little more work. Here are a few tips for adapting your R graphics to make them look a little better. 1) Dont use the “File/Save as…/” menu. ...

Nina Zumel and I have been working on packaging our favorite graphing techniques in a more reusable way that emphasizes the analysis task at hand over the steps needed to produce a good visualization. We are excited to announce the WVPlots is now at version 1.0.0 on CRAN! The idea is: ...

I try to at least scan the R-bloggers feed everyday. Not every article is of interest to me, but I often have one of two different reactions to at least one article. Sometimes it is an “ah ha” moment because the article is right on point for a problem I ...

Making Calendar with ggplot2 I recently discovered font called Moon Phase. I also recently discovered R package, suncalc, and I can get Moon Illumination data by day, so I thought I’d use both to create a simple calendar using ggplot2. Prepping The Data To make calendar, I need to ...

My previous Jeopardy analyzer was built using a base of about 30 daily Coryat scores. This one has more than 1600 scores that were either recorded directly, e-mailed to me, or scraped from the forum at jboard.tv . Here we look at the consistency of tou...

If you work with datasets that are big enough in R you will eventually encounter situations where your plots are so complex that they do things like crash Preview.app on macOS. For me this happens a lot when I generate huge scatterplots with very dense overplotting. These don’t ...

In the age of Rmarkdown and Shiny, or when making any custom output from your data you want your output to look consistent and neat. Also, when writing your output you often want it to obtain a specific (decorative) format defined by the html or LaTeX engine. These exercises are ...

Following a very interesting post I’d found on twitter by Paul Campbell, I was curious to try to recreate the plots involved myself. Plotting a coloured point as a representation of 100 votes in each ward is interesting, it gives a surprising feel for the sense of party proportions in ...

One of the best things about the online R community is there are lots and lots of great people to follow online especially. One person I follow dataandme consistently links great how to do things on R tutorials. Recently I saw this post where she linked a post by drsimonj ...

Abstract Unexploded WWII bombs are ticking threats despite being dropped more than 70 years ago. In this post we explain how statistical methods are used to plan the search and disposal of unexploded WWII bombs. In particular we consider and exemplify the non-parametric nearest neighbour distance (NND) method implemented in the ...