I saw an interesting “challenge” on StackOverflow last night to create an XKCD style chart in R. A couple of hours later & going in a very similar direction to a couple of the answers on SO, I got to something that looked pretty good, using the sin and cos curves ... [Read more...]

I’ve been writing a fair amount of R recently and have been going through a good learning period, here are some functions that I’ve discovered (mainly plyr and reshape related) and thought I would share: merge_all is a good way to merge multiple different data frames, rather ... [Read more...]

Quite a handy couple of lines of code to subset a list in R to just those elements which meet a certain condition. Here’s an example to return only those elements of a list which are a certain class. Thanks to this StackOverflow answer. [Read more...]

I’ve been writing functions in R for a while to do various things like talking to APIs, web scraping, model testing and data visualisation (basically thing which can get a bit repetitive!), but have always been slightly intimidated about turning those functions into a package, which I could then ... [Read more...]