Category Archives: reports

Easily Make Multi-tabbed .xlsx Files with openxlsx

Posted on February 14, 2018 by tylerrinker

This is a quick script showing how to make multi-tabbed .xlsx files. I recently had the need to do this and used the flexible openxlsx package maintained by : Alexander Walker. The package is described by the author like this: … Continue reading →

Posted in r, reports, work flow | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

rmarkdown: Alter Action Depending on Document

Posted on November 18, 2014 by tylerrinker

Can I see a show of hands for those who love rmarkdown? Yeah me too. One nifty feature is the ability to specify various document prettifications in the YAML of a .Rmd document and then use: The Problem Have you … Continue reading →

Posted in knitr, r, reports, Uncategorized, work flow | Tagged , , | 6 Comments

GitHub Package Ideas I Stole

Posted on August 31, 2013 by tylerrinker

One of my favorite sources of good ideas is looking at the GitHub repositories of others and modeling my repos after the good ideas I see others doing. Here's Steve Jobs on stealing ideas: In the past few weeks I've … Continue reading →

Posted in knitr, package creation, reports, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

ggplot2 Choropleth of Supreme Court Decisions: A Tutorial

Posted on July 5, 2013 by tylerrinker

I don't do much GIS but I like to. It's rather enjoyable and involves a tremendous skill set. Often you will find your self grabbing data sets from some site, scraping, data cleaning and reshaping, and graphing. On the ride … Continue reading →

Posted in data, ggplot2, reports, Uncategorized, visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 31 Comments

The Mechanics of Data Visualization

Posted on July 2, 2013 by tylerrinker

I recently presented about the mechanics of data visualization at the CLaRI Literacy Conference to a group of researchers, teachers and school administrators. The presentation is based on the work of Few (2012; 2009). While the presentation itself is not about … Continue reading →

Posted in ggplot2, reports, slidify, Uncategorized, visualization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Animations Understood

Posted on May 11, 2013 by tylerrinker

When I first saw a graphic made from Yihui’s animation package (Xie, 2013) I was amazed at the magic and thought “I could never do that”. Passage of time… One night I found myself bored and as usual avoiding work. … Continue reading →

Posted in animation, reports, Uncategorized, visualization | Tagged , , , , , , | 7 Comments

reports 0.1.2 Released

Posted on March 12, 2013 by tylerrinker

I’m very pleased to announce the release of reports : An R package to assist in the workflow of writing academic articles and other reports. This is the first CRAN release of reports: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reports/index.html The reports package assists in writing … Continue reading →

Posted in reports, work flow | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments