Favourite Things

Each project closes with a table summarising the R tools used. By visualising my most frequently used packages and functions I get a sense of where I may most benefit from going deeper and keeping abreast of the latest package versions

I may also spot superseded functions e.g. spread and gather may now be replaced by pivot_wider and pivot_longer. Or an opportunity to switch a non-tidyverse package for a newer tidyverse (or ecosystem) alternative, e.g. for UpSetR I can now use ggupset which plays well with ggplot.

library(tidyverse)
library(tidytext)
library(rvest)
library(wesanderson)
library(janitor)
library(glue)
library(kableExtra)
library(ggwordcloud)
library(fpp3)
library(tidymodels)
library(patchwork)

theme_set(theme_bw())

(cols <- wes_palette(name = "IsleofDogs2"))

I’ll start by grabbing the url for every project.

urls <- "https://www.quantumjitter.com/project/" |> 
  read_html() |> 
  html_elements(".underline .db") |> 
  html_attr("href") |> 
  as_tibble() |> 
  transmute(str_c("https://www.quantumjitter.com/", value)) |> 
  pull()

This enables me to extract the usage table for each project.

table_df <- map_dfr(urls, function(x) {
  x |>
    read_html() |>
    html_elements("#r-toolbox , table") |>
    html_table()
}) |>
  clean_names(replace = c("io" = "")) |>
  select(package, functn) |>
  drop_na()

A little “spring cleaning” is needed, and separation of tidyverse and non-tidyverse packages.

• tidyverse
• tidymodels
• tidyverts

tidy <-
  c(
    tidyverse_packages(),
    fpp3_packages(),
    tidymodels_packages()
  ) |>
  unique()

tidy_df <- table_df |>
  separate_rows(functn, sep = ";") |>
  separate(functn, c("functn", "count"), "\\Q[\\E") |>
  mutate(
    count = str_remove(count, "]") |> as.integer(),
    functn = str_squish(functn)
  ) |>
  count(package, functn, wt = count) |>
  mutate(multiverse = case_when(
    package %in% tidy ~ "tidy",
    package %in% c("base", "graphics") ~ "base",
    TRUE ~ "special"
  ))

Then I can summarise usage and prepare for a faceted plot.

pack_df <- tidy_df |>
  count(package, multiverse, wt = n) |>
  mutate(name = "package")

fun_df <- tidy_df |>
  count(functn, multiverse, wt = n) |>
  mutate(name = "function")

n_url <- urls |> n_distinct()

packfun_df <- pack_df |>
  bind_rows(fun_df) |>
  group_by(name) |>
  arrange(desc(n)) |>
  mutate(
    packfun = coalesce(package, functn),
    name = fct_rev(name)
  )

Clearly dplyr reigns supreme driven by mutate and filter.

p1 <- packfun_df |>
  filter(name == "package") |> 
  ggplot(aes(fct_reorder(packfun, n), n, fill = multiverse)) +
  geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) +
  coord_flip() +
  geom_label(aes(label = n), hjust = "inward", size = 2, fill = "white") +
  scale_fill_manual(values = cols[c(2, 3, 1)]) +
  labs(
    title = glue("Favourite Things\nAcross {n_url} Projects"),
    subtitle = "Package Usage",
    x = NULL, y = NULL
  )

p2 <- packfun_df |>
  filter(name == "function", n >= 4) |> 
  ggplot(aes(fct_reorder(packfun, n), n, fill = multiverse)) +
  geom_col() +
  coord_flip() +
  geom_label(aes(label = n), hjust = "inward", size = 2, fill = "white") +
  scale_fill_manual(values = cols[c(2, 3, 1)]) +
  labs(x = NULL, y = NULL, 
       subtitle = "Function Usage >= 4")

p1 + p2

I’d also like a wordcloud. And thanks to blogdown, the updated visualisation is picked up as the new featured image for this project.

set.seed = 123

packfun_df |>
  mutate(angle = 45 * sample(-2:2, n(), 
                             replace = TRUE, 
                             prob = c(1, 1, 4, 1, 1))) |>
  ggplot(aes(
    label = packfun,
    size = n,
    colour = multiverse,
    angle = angle
  )) +
  geom_text_wordcloud(
    eccentricity = 1,
    seed = 789
  ) +
  scale_size_area(max_size = 20) +
  scale_colour_manual(values = cols[c(4, 2, 3)]) +
  theme_void() +
  theme(plot.background = element_rect(fill = cols[1]))

R Toolbox < svg class="anchor-symbol" aria-hidden="true" height="26" width="26" viewBox="0 0 22 22" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> < path d="M0 0h24v24H0z" fill="currentColor"> < path d="M3.9 12c0-1.71 1.39-3.1 3.1-3.1h4V7H7c-2.76.0-5 2.24-5 5s2.24 5 5 5h4v-1.9H7c-1.71.0-3.1-1.39-3.1-3.1zM8 13h8v-2H8v2zm9-6h-4v1.9h4c1.71.0 3.1 1.39 3.1 3.1s-1.39 3.1-3.1 3.1h-4V17h4c2.76.0 5-2.24 5-5s-2.24-5-5-5z">

A little bit circular I know, but I might as well include this code too in my “favourite things”.