Articles by Data Imaginist

Moving to Blogdown

October 28, 2017 | Data Imaginist

As I announced last friday on Twitter I have moved Data Imaginist to Blogdown from Jekyll. This is going to be a short post about why I did it. There’s not going to be much tutorial about this; the migration is as painless as can be expected and besides, ...
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Introducing reqres

August 12, 2017 | Data Imaginist

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 server is seldom something ...
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Beneath the canvas

July 23, 2017 | Data Imaginist

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: The blog post is ...
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