Let’s say we’ve managed to find an interesting dataset 1 on heights for given countries since 1550 (yup!): country year height_cm continent Afghanistan 1870 168.40 Asia Afghanistan 1880 165.69 Asia Afghanistan 1930 166.80 Asia Afghanistan 1990 167.10 Asia Afghanistan 2000 161.40 Asia Albania 1880 170.10 Europe We’ve got country, year, height (in centimetres), and continent. Neat! Now, let’s look ...

I’ve recently asked on the Rstudio community page how to make code chunks appear verbatim. Not sure what I mean by this? Well, showing your entire code chunk is something taht comes up when you are teaching people about rmarkdown. One of the issues is that you want to ...

I recently had a question from a colleague, and thanks to the awesome recent work on rlang this is now super straightforward. I thought I’d share a bit about that. I still remember when I had just learnt how to write a function in R, and I wanted to ...

A little while ago I showed Karthik Ram the percent function from scales, and he said something along the lines of: There should be a high quality screencase where someone shows a couple of rstats tricks and thats it. So this is it! I just uploaded a screencast to youtube ...