Tag Archives: ggplot2

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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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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Ordering Categories within ggplot2 Facets

Posted on December 23, 2016 by tylerrinker

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 →

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

Posted on March 3, 2016 by tylerrinker

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 →

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Visualizing APA 6 Citations: qdapRegex 0.2.0 & qdapTools 1.1.0

Posted on December 24, 2014 by tylerrinker

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 →

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GTrendsR package to Explore Google trending for Field Dependent Terms

Posted on November 24, 2014 by tylerrinker

My friend, Steve Simpson, introduced me to Philippe Massicotte and Dirk Eddelbuettel’s GTrendsR GitHub package this week. It’s a pretty nifty wrapper to the Google Trends API that enables one to search phrase trends over time. The trend indices that … Continue reading →

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Sochi Olympic Medals

Posted on February 9, 2014 by tylerrinker

For those who are addicted to R and haven’t the time to click the mouse on a web browser you too can still be informed about the results of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. I was inspired by a SO … Continue reading →

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Sentence Drawing: Function vs. Art

Posted on December 8, 2013 by tylerrinker

I recently was reading the book “Functional Art” and came across the work of Stefanie Posavec. Her Sentence Drawings (click here to see and click here to learn) caught my attention. Here is a ggplot2 rendition: From what I understand … Continue reading →

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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 →

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