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ggplot2: How Geoms & Aesthetics ≈ Whipped Cream

Posted on March 21, 2018 by tylerrinker

In this post I have a few goals: 1. Become (re-)familiar with available geoms 2. Become (re-)familiar with aesthetic mappings in geoms (stroke who knew?) 3. Answer these questions: How often do various geoms appear and how often do they … Continue reading →

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Minimal, Explicit, Python Style Package Loading for R

Posted on February 22, 2018 by tylerrinker

About a year and a half back I was working in Python a bit and became accustomed to the explicit importing of modules (akin to R packages) and functions. Python imports packages like this: import tidyr import dplyr as dp … Continue reading →

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pacman Ver 0.4.1 Release

Posted on March 31, 2016 by tylerrinker

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 →

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Random Data Sets Quickly

Posted on April 25, 2015 by tylerrinker

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 →

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pacman 0.2.0: Initial CRAN Release

Posted on February 16, 2015 by tylerrinker

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 →

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Scheduling R Tasks via Windows Task Scheduler

Posted on February 11, 2015 by tylerrinker

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 →

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LRA 2014- Communication Nomads: Blogging to Reclaim Our Academic Birthright

Posted on December 4, 2014 by tylerrinker

I have been asked to speak at the 2014 LRA Conference on the topic of Academic Blogging. Time: 1:15-2:15 Location: Islands Ballroom Salon B – Lobby Level My Slides: http://clari.buffalo.edu/blog My Précis: http://clari.buffalo.edu/blog/materials/precis.pdf The talk is part of a larger … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Canned Regular Expressions: qdapRegex 0.1.2 on CRAN

Posted on September 27, 2014 by tylerrinker

We’re pleased to announce first CRAN release of qdapRegex! You can read about qdapRegex or skip right to the examples. qdapRegex is a collection of regular expression tools associated with the qdap package that may be useful outside of the context … Continue reading →

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Spell Checker for R…qdap::check_spelling

Posted on September 4, 2014 by tylerrinker

I often have had requests for a spell checker for R character vectors. The utils::aspell function can be used to check spelling but many Windows users have reported difficulty with the function. I came across an article on spelling in … Continue reading →

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