Author Archives: tylerrinker

About tylerrinker

I am Literacy PhD student with a bent for the quantitative and a passion for R.

Ordering Categories within ggplot2 Facets

Posted on December 23, 2016

I saw Simon Jackson’s recent blog post regarding ordering categories within facets. He proposed a way of dealing with the problem of ordering variables shared across facets within facets. This problem becomes apparent in text analysis where words are shared … Continue reading →

Posted in ggplot2, r, text, tidytext, tidyverse, tylerrinker, visualization | Tagged , , , , , | 14 Comments

googleformr at Work: Pneumatic Road Tube Allegory

Posted on May 12, 2016

Steve Simpson (@data_steve) created the googleformr package to enable users to easily send information to a Google Form.  It’s a nice way to send and securely store data via R and the price is great…FREE! A Pneumatic Road Tube Allegory…Kinda … Continue reading →

Posted in analysis, r, work flow | Tagged , , , , , , | 8 Comments

pacman Ver 0.4.1 Release

Posted on March 31, 2016

It was just over a year ago that Dason Kurkiewicz and I released pacman to CRAN.  We have been developing the package on GitHub in the past 14 months and are pleased to announce these changes have made their way … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized, work flow | Tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot re-revisited

Posted on March 3, 2016

Several years back I wrote a two part blog series in response to seeing questions about plotting and reordering on list serves, talkstats.com, and stackoverflow.  Part I discussed the basics of reordering plots by reordering factor levels.  The essential gist was: … Continue reading →

Posted in factor, ggplot2, r, visualization | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Cracking Safe Cracker with R

Posted on May 30, 2015

My wife got me a Safe Cracker 40 puzzle a while back. I believe I misplaced the solution some time back. The company, Creative Crafthouse, stands behind their products. They had amazing customer service and promptly supplied me with a … Continue reading →

Posted in games, r | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Wakefield: Random Data Set (Part II)

Posted on April 30, 2015

This post is part II of a series detailing the GitHub package, wakefield, for generating random data sets. The First Post (part I) was a test run to gauge user interest. I received positive feedback and some ideas for improvements, … Continue reading →

Posted in data, data generation, r, random, trinker, tylerrinker, wakefield | Tagged , | 12 Comments

Random Data Sets Quickly

Posted on April 25, 2015

This post will discuss a recent GitHub package I’m working on, wakefield to generate random data sets. The post is broken into the following sections: Demo 1.1 Random Variable Functions 1.2 Random Data Frames 1.3 Missing Values 1.4 Default Data … Continue reading →

Posted in data, data generation, r, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 7 Comments

pacman 0.2.0: Initial CRAN Release

Posted on February 16, 2015

We’re please to announce the first CRAN release of pacman v. 0.2.0. pacman is the combined work of Dason Kurkiewicz & Tyler Rinker. pacman is an R package management tool that combines the functionality of base library related functions into intuitively … Continue reading →

Posted in r, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Scheduling R Tasks via Windows Task Scheduler

Posted on February 11, 2015

This post will allow you to impress your boss with your strong work ethic by enabling Windows R users to schedule late night tasks.  Picture it, your boss gets an email at 1:30 in the morning with the latest company … Continue reading →

Posted in r, Uncategorized, work flow | Tagged , , , , , , | 44 Comments

Visualizing APA 6 Citations: qdapRegex 0.2.0 & qdapTools 1.1.0

Posted on December 24, 2014

qdapRegex 0.2.0 & qdapTools 1.1.0 have been released to CRAN.  This post will provide some of the packages’ updates/features and provide an integrate demonstration of extracting and viewing in-text APA 6 style citations from an MS Word (.docx) document. qdapRegex … Continue reading →

Posted in ggplot2, qdap, r, regular expression | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments