In case you hadn’t spotted it already, a major new release of ggplot2 hit CRAN last week. Among the many new features, the one that caught my attention was support for simple features. Or in other words, it’s now really easy to plot spatial data in ggplot2. On ...

For the last week we’ve been talking on the blog and Twitter about some of the functionality in Shiny and how you can learn it. But, if you haven’t already made the leap and started using Shiny, why should you? What is the challenge to be solved? At ...

Back in the summer of 2012 I was meant to be focusing on one thing: finishing my thesis. But, unfortunately for me, a friend and former colleague came back from a conference (JSM) and told me all about a new package that she had seen demoed. “You should sign up for ...