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Introducing reqres

August 12, 2017 | Data Imaginist - R posts

I’m very happy to announce that reqres has been released on CRAN. reqres is a new (in R context) approach to working with HTTP messages, that is, the requests you send to a server and the respons it returns. The uunderlying mechanics of a web ser... [Read more...]

Beneath the canvas

July 23, 2017 | Data Imaginist - R posts

Recently a blog post made its rounds on the internet describing how it is possible to speed up plot creation in ggplot2 by first creating a blank canvas and then later adding the plot elements on top of it. The main takeaway plot is reproduced below: ...
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Introducing tidygraph

July 6, 2017 | Data Imaginist - R posts

I’m very pleased to announce that my new package tidygraph is now available on CRAN. As the name suggests, tidygraph is an entry into the tidyverse that provides a tidy framework for all things relational (networks/graphs, trees, etc.). tidygraph ... [Read more...]

Introduction to ggraph: Edges

February 15, 2017 | Data Imaginist - R posts

This is the third post in my series of ggraph introductions. The first post introduced the concept of layouts, which is simply a specification on how nodes should be placed on a plane. The second explained how to draw nodes using the geom_node_*() fam... [Read more...]

Introduction to ggraph: Nodes

February 5, 2017 | Data Imaginist - R posts

This is the second post in my series of ggraph introductions. The first post introduced the concept of layouts, which is simply a specification on how nodes should be placed on a plane. This post will dive into how the nodes are drawn, once a layout ... [Read more...]

Introduction to ggraph: Layouts

February 5, 2017 | Data Imaginist - R posts

I will soon submit ggraph to CRAN - I swear! But in the meantime I’ve decided to build up anticipation for the great event by publishing a range of blog posts describing the central parts of ggraph: Layouts, Nodes, Edges, and Connections. All of th... [Read more...]

Becoming The Intern

October 30, 2016 | Data Imaginist - R posts

I was not always this famous… And with this I mean that a year ago only my colleagues knew I did stuff in R and now I’m reaching a slightly wider audience. Some of this is definitely due to me interning for Hadley Wickham and helping prepare the ne... [Read more...]

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