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Johannes Vermeer, The Allegory of Painting, a woman holding an instrument at a window and a man turned away from us painting her

Three packages that port the tidyverse to Python

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Working in Python but miss tidyverse syntax? These packages can help.

May 9, 2022

Henri-Edmond Cross, Landscape with Stars, a painting of blue and yellow dots making up the night sky

Understanding the native R pipe |>

explanation

Or, why mtcars |> plot(hp, mpg) doesn’t work and what you can do about it.

Jan 18, 2022

Henri Rousseau, Virgin Forest with Sunset of a jungle with green trees and a red sun.

Creating a dataset from an image using reticulate in R Markdown

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I ran into a cool paper where the authors create a dataset from an image with a Python package and then plot it with ggplot2. We can do that in a single R Markdown file thanks to the reticulate package.

Sep 28, 2021

Vincent van Gogh, The Olive Trees showing olive trees against a blue background and a bright sun

Why I’m excited to join RStudio, told through a blogdown metadata project

tutorial

I am now a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at RStudio!

Sep 13, 2021

Pauline Powell Williams, Violets showing bunches of purple violets with a white background

Politely scraping Wikipedia tables

tutorial

Wikipedia has a lot of wonderful data stored in tables. Here’s how to pull them into R.

Jul 27, 2021

E. A. Séguy, Vintage flower patterns showing abstract pink flowers with red centers on a background of an orange spiral with brown background

Getting started in #rtistry

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Generative art mixes randomness and order to create beautiful images. The #rtistry package helps find work from other Rtists.

May 9, 2021

Vincent Van Gogh, Flower Beds in Holland showing a person working in fields of colorful tulips with houses in the background

Exploring other ggplot2 geoms

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Let’s explore some cool charts we can make in {ggplot2}.

Mar 28, 2021

Winslow Homer, Maine Coast, a painting of rough ocean waves crashing at a rock

Preparing a manuscript for publication using bookdown

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Lessons learned when we used {bookdown} to prepare a manuscript to submit for publishing.

Mar 8, 2021

Edgar Degas, Dancers Practicing at the Barre, a painting of two ballerina dancers at the barre, one with her leg in the air

Remote pair programming in R using Visual Studio Code and Live Share

how-to

Setting up a Google Docs-like coding environment in VS Code.

Feb 3, 2021
Isabella Velásquez, Gustavo E. Velásquez

From the Rijksmuseum, pigeons in white and blue.

Browse and search liked Tweets using R

tutorial

Tired of trying to search all your liked Tweets on your timeline? Pull them into R instead!

Nov 10, 2020

Piet Mondrian, Tableau No. 2, an abstract painting of black rectangles on a yellow background

An even easier-to-use R package for school district shapefiles

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reference

Thanks to contributions from Daniel Anderson, {leaidr} is even easier to use.

Aug 30, 2020

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in Chilpéric showing a dancer with a large skirt dancing at a dance hall with a crowd behind her

Party with R: How the community enabled us to write a book

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Celebrating the R community. Originally posted on RViews.

Jul 13, 2020

Hendrick Avercamp, Ice-skating in a Village showing a town of people skating on a frozen lake

What it takes to tidy Census data

tutorial

Census data is valuable, but can be stored in messy Excel spreadsheets.

May 28, 2020

Abraham Mignon, Still Life with Flowers and a Watch showing colorful flowers in a pot with a black background.

Introducing an R package for school district shapefiles

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The {leaidr} package helps us easily create maps of U.S. school districts.

May 3, 2020

J. Howard Miller, We Can Do It, a painting of Rosie the Riveter with a red spotted bandana and a blue shirt holding her arm

You CRAN do it

how-to

Recommendations for when you want to submit a package to CRAN.

Feb 25, 2020
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Henri Edmond Cross, Two Women by the Shore, Mediterranean, a painting of colorful dots making up a painting of a garden with two women

Six things I always Google when using ggplot2

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My frequently-used reference for styling {ggplot2} charts.

Jan 27, 2020

Village by the River, fourth quarter 19th century painting of a town showing green and yellow houses and a white church and trees

Finding the modal school district

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What’s the most common type of district in the U.S.? Let’s find out using R.

Sep 11, 2019

Thomas Moran, Winter in the Rockies, painting of a horizon of snow-capped mountains

Taking a peek into my hiking data

tutorial

I got my hands on a bunch of GPX files.

Apr 6, 2019

Joseph Decker, Green Plums showing several green plums on a brown table

Transforming PDFs into useful tables

tutorial

Most of the time, data doesn’t come in tidy spreadsheets. With R, though, you can pull data from PDFs to use in analyses.

Dec 16, 2018

Samuel Colman, The Rock of Salvation showing a sunset with dark clouds at a beach

Disaggregating school district data

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Exploring why disaggregation of data is important by looking at district demographics.

Sep 21, 2018

Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life with the Spinario showing a still life with a book, statue, violin, skull, and other items arranged in a room

So you’re getting a Masters in Analytics

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My advice to aspiring data scientists and analysts entering these programs.

Aug 4, 2018
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