A few months ago, I published a post where I was trying to map the dependencies relationships between R packages. Today I want to do something similar with package contributors. My idea is to reconstruct a social graph where each node would be a person (presumably a developer), and two ... [Read more...]

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The idea of this post is to create a kind of map of the R ecosystem showing dependencies relationships between packages. This is actually quite simple to quickly generate a graph object like that, since all the data we need … Lire la suite → [Read more...]

This is the second « big » feature coming with branch 0.2 of rleafmap (now on CRAN!). With this new version you can write popups content in R Markdown which will be processed when you generate the map. This can be useful … Lire la suite → [Read more...]

Do you know the Maucha diagram? If you are not an Hungarian limnologist, probably not! This diagram was proposed by Rezso Maucha in 1932 as a way to vizualise the relative ionic composition of water samples. However, as far I … Lire la suite → [Read more...]

This is a functionality I wanted to add for some time… and finally it’s here! I just pushed on GitHub a new version of rleafmap which brings the possibility to attach legends to data layers. You simply need to create … Lire la suite → [Read more...]

In February, I participated in a hackaton organized by Thibaut Jombart at Imperial College, London, to work on visualization tools for outbreak data. This was a great time spent with great people! Thanks again, Thibaut, for organizing. I took part … Lire la suite → [Read more...]

Obviously, I am late… I released rleafmap about 1 year ago and I am just writing this blog post today. During this time, I presented the package to the french R-users community at the 3eme Rencontres R in Montpellier and … Lire la suite → [Read more...]