Vincent van Gogh, The Olive Trees (1889) I am excited to announce that I’ve joined the RStudio Marketing team! I will be creating content on the RStudio Blog that will announce news and share stories from the company, users, and partners. I j...

Wikipedia is such an amazing website, and also a fantastic source of data for analysis projects. I often find myself scraping Wikipedia’s tables for information and then cleaning and using the data for whatever I am working on. However, scrapi...

Artists in the R community have been using the #rtistry hashtag to demonstrate their gorgeous, dynamic art using only the R programming language. Their creations are amazing and they inspired me to try out generative art this dreary Sunday. I ...

Getting started in #rtistry Artists in the R community have been using the #rtistry hashtag to demonstrate their gorgeous, dynamic art using only the R programming language. Their creations are amazing and they inspired me to try out generative art ...

R users are incredibly fortunate to work in an open-source community that creates and shares resources that make our work even better. The {ggplot2} package comes with incredibly useful geoms (geometric objects) to create visualizations. A ful...

R users are incredibly fortunate to work in an open source community that creates and shares resources that make our work even better. The {ggplot2} package comes with incredibly useful geoms (geometric objects) to create visualizations. A full list ...

My co-authors Ryan, Emily, Jesse, Josh, and I published our book last year, but Data Science in Education Using R is also available online as a bookdown on a website, available to all. {bookdown} is an R package that facilitates writing books ...

My co-authors Ryan, Emily, Jesse, Josh, and I published our book last year, but it had actually been around since the moment we started writing it. Data Science in Education Using R is available online as a bookdown on a website, available to all. {b...

The Problem State of the Code Editors Installation Configuration Writing an R Package Using VS Code Live Share Tutorial Final Thoughts The Problem Way back in the Before Time, my older brother and I worked together on an R package called {wizehiver}. To collaborate, we used many tools. We had ...

The other day, I was scrolling through my “liked” Tweets and got maybe 100 deep when I accidentally clicked a hyperlink and had to restart scrolling from the beginning. The experience made me so frustrated that I started looking up easier ways...

An update to leaidr A few months ago, I created {leaidr} for easier download of U.S. school district shapefiles. Daniel Anderson went through and greatly improved the package, making it even easier to download and use the shapefiles (thanks D...

leaidr Update A few months ago, I created {leaidr} for easier download of U.S. school district shapefiles. Daniel Anderson went through and greatly improved the package, making it even easier to download and use the shapefiles (thanks Dan!). Now, instead of having to run lea_prep(), you can download ...

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window. - Eleanor Clark Without the R community, Data Science in ...

Blogdown Bookdown Shiny Blogdown R-Ladies Seattle Website https://rladiesseattle.org/ Bookdown Data Science in Education Using R Open Version https://datascienceineducation.com/ Shiny Spurious COVID Correlation Creator https://ivel...

The U.S. Census releases aggregate data on their Household Pulse Survey. These data are valuable and cover a range of important topics, particularly those related to the COVID-19 pandemic. First of all, let me clarify that I think that the wor...

The U.S. Census releases aggregate data on their Household Pulse Survey. These data are super interesting and cover a range of important topics, particularly those related to the COVID-19 pandemic. First of all, let me clarify that I think that the wo...

wizehiver: R wrapper for WizeHive’s Zengine API dataedu: R Package Associated with the Data Science in Education Using R Book leaidr: R Package for U.S. School District Shapefiles edreportr: R Wrapper for EdReports API