Publications by Homer White
Pander/Pandoc for Pretty Conversion on the R Studio Server
Eventually we get around to teaching our students to turn in Homework assignments as R Markdown documents, and towards the end of the semester many of them will do a data analysis project, complete with a report generated as an HTML file. But frankly the HTML output is a bit ugly. What if students want something that looks a bit better? What if...
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Five Reasons to Teach Elementary Statistics With R: #1
Introduction Reason #1: Package mosaic Keeping Simple Things Simple Flow-Control for the Masses There is Much More References Introduction This is is first in a projected five-part series of posts aimed at colleagues who teach elementary statistics. I can’t remember exactly how I first made acquaintance with R, but it’s been an important ...
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Five Reasons to Teach Elementary Statistics With R: #2
Introduction Reason #2: RStudio’s manipulate Do It Yourself Next Time Introduction This is is second in a projected five-part series of posts aimed at colleagues who teach elementary statistics. If you teach with R but hesitate to spring such a powerful and complex tool on unsuspecting introductory students—many of whom whom will have had...
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Five Reasons to Teach Elementary Statistics With R: #3
Introduction Reason #3: RStudio’s shiny Examples “Slow” Simulation Understanding Model Assumptions Types of Error Illustrating Fine Points Playing Games Shiny vs. manipulate Instructional Apps Gallery? Introduction This is the third in a projected five-part series of posts aimed at colleagues who teach elementary statistics. If you tea...
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New Wine in an Old Bottle: R Markdown v2 and R Studio on the Cent OS Server
Introduction New Pandoc Installing LaTeX Packages Introduction R Markdown Version 2 is a boon to students: with a single click one can convert an R Markdown file to either HTML, PDF or Word format. However, getting this feature to work fully in the R Studio server environment may require a bit of work, especially if you running the Server on a...
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Google Charts in R Markdown
Introduction Extrapolation Introduction An excellent little post (Zoom, zoom googleVis) showed up recently on R-Bloggers. The author Markus Gesmann is the maintainer of the googleVis package that links R to the Google Charts API. My first thought was: could I embed charts like those in R Markdown documents that could knit to ioslides or other...
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A Tutorial on Writing Simulation Apps in Shiny
I stand in awe of the R wizards who post their latest and greatest Shiny feats on R-Bloggers. It’s taken me a while to find my way around Shiny, but at last I feel ready to fill in a few gaps for others who may be just starting out and who aspire to write reasonably involved, user-friendly simulation apps. To make it a bit more fun I’ve wri...
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