Canadamaps 0.3.0

March 23, 2024 | pacha.dev/blog

Motivation The creation of Canadamaps is deeply rooted in a journey from adversity to contribution. Following a challenging period marked by the “social explosion” in Chile, which led to multiple casualties, wounded people, the destruction of my ...
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Creating upset charts with ggplot2

March 23, 2024 | Albert Rapp

I recently saw this cool chart on a Storytelling with data community post. It shows you how many schools are below average in maths, reading, and writing. Notice that a school can be below average in more than one subject and the dots between th...
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Modeling my pinball scores

March 23, 2024 | R on Publishable Stuff

Upon discovering that the tiny town I live in has a pinball arcade with over 40 tables (!), I got a bout of pinball fever. I fancy myself a fairly accomplished video game player, but was disappointed to discover that my ability to keep Mario alive didn’t translate to preventing the ...
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I Made R Text For Me

March 22, 2024 | Brenden Smith

Introduction Up front, I have problems with procrastination. The last few years in graduate school have made me prioritize certain things MUCH better. However, in my personal life, I still struggle. I continue to put off things that I would rat... [Read more...]

ggbrick is now on CRAN

March 21, 2024 | Daniel Oehm

If you’re looking for something a little different, ggbrick creates a ‘waffle’ style chart with the aesthetic of a brick […] The post ggbrick is now on CRAN appeared first on Dan Oehm | Gradient Descending. [Read more...]

How to interpret and report nonlinear effects from Generalized Additive Models

March 20, 2024 | GAMbler

What are Generalized Additive Models (GAMs)? Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) are flexible tools that replace one or more predictors in a Generalized Linear Model (GLM) with smooth functions of predictors. These are helpful for learning arbitrarily complex, nonlinear relationships between predictors and conditional responses without needing a priori expectations about ... [Read more...]

Update on mocking for testing R packages

March 20, 2024 | Posts on R-hub blog

This blog featured a post on mocking, the art of replacing a function with whatever fake we need for testing, years ago. Since then, we’ve entered a new decade, the second edition of Hadley Wickham’s and Jenny Bryan’s R packages book was published, and mocking returned to ... [Read more...]

WebDev4R: Flexbox

March 20, 2024 | Albert Rapp

There are two major systems to align things in CSS. These are flexbox and grid layout. Both of them are really useful to know to have any chance to make nice websites or apps. And today we’re going to focus on flexbox. And as always, if you want...
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