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Supplementing your R package with a Shiny app

Posted on April 22, 2015

The R community is generally very fond of open-source-ness and the idea of releasing all code to the public. Writing packages has become such an easy experience now that Hadley’s devtools is so powerful, and as a result there are new packages being released by useRs every single day. [Read More]

Tags: rstats shiny packages tutorial

Flake it till you make it

It's not always cowardly to walk away; it can be very difficult, yet enlightening, to not be afraid to step off a path, regardless of how much you've already walked it

Posted on April 2, 2015

My mom recently showed me a very interesting bit from a book she was reading called ‘Soulshaping’ by Jeff Brown. I’ll discuss it later, but first, here is the excerpt: [Read More]

Tags: personal

ggExtra: R package for adding marginal histograms to ggplot2

Posted on March 29, 2015

My first CRAN package, ggExtra, contains several functions to enhance ggplot2, with the most important one being ggExtra::ggMarginal() - a function that finally allows easily adding marginal density plots or histograms to scatterplots. [Read More]

Tags: rstats ggplot2 packages ggExtra

Knitr's best hidden gem: spin

Stop knitting & start spinning - spin can help you write reports much faster and avoid repeating yourself

Posted on March 24, 2015

Anyone who loves the idea of dynamic report generation with R is probably a big fan of knitr and its flagship function - knit. But not many people seem to know about knit’s awesome cousin - spin. [Read More]

Tags: rstats knitr

Beautiful Jekyll - how to build a site in minutes

A plug-n-play template to easily get anyone a free nice looking site (same theme as this one) quickly

Posted on March 12, 2015

Since this site went live a few days ago, I had many people ask me how I made it. Like a great politician, I will avoid that question almost entirely with a completely different answer: The core template that runs this website is available for anyone to use. I called... [Read More]

Tags: personal jekyll github blog popular beautifuljekyll