Category Archives: work flow

Math Notation for R Plot Titles: expression, bquote, & Greek Letters

Posted on March 15, 2018 by tylerrinker

In this post you will learn: How to create expressions that have mixed (1) strings, (2) expressions, (3) variables & (4) Greek letters How to pass in values as variables to an expression I wanted to name this post “Ahhhhhhhhhhh #$@%&!!!!” … Continue reading →

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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 →

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googleformr at Work: Pneumatic Road Tube Allegory

Posted on May 12, 2016 by tylerrinker

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 →

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

Posted on August 14, 2013 by tylerrinker

Back in October of last year I wrote a blog post about reordering/rearanging plots. This was, and continues to be, a frequent question on list serves and R help sites. In light of my recent studies/presenting on The Mechanics of … Continue reading →

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qdap 0.2.1 Released

Posted on March 14, 2013 by tylerrinker

I’m very pleased to announce the release of qdap 0.2.1 This is the second installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. The qdap package automates many of the tasks associated with quantitative discourse analysis of transcripts containing discourse, including … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Workflow w/ reports package

Posted on February 24, 2013 by tylerrinker

NOTE: THIS IS NOW A PACKAGE SEE THIS LINK FOR DETAILS Let me start with a video for people who just want to see what I’m demo-ing first: I’ve been interested in speeding up workflow lately and spending a lot … Continue reading →

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