Publications by HighlandR
let there be progress
The ‘wrapr’ package for use with dplyr programming – UPDATED POST I’m the first to admit I’m not an R expert, (even duffers can blog about it though), but when I began thinking about writing some dplyr functions to help me create and analyse run charts, I had no idea that I was going to struggle quite so much getting to grips w...
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let there be progress
The ‘wrapr’package for use with dplyr programming – UPDATED POST I’m the first to admit I’m not an R expert, (even duffers can blog about it though), but when I began thinking about writing some dplyr functions to help me create and analyse run charts, I had no idea that I was going to struggle quite so much getting to grips wi...
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July(ish) Update
A belated review of things I ‘ve been up to but not blogged about until now – So, merely days (ok, weeks) after I suggest that I never have problems coming up with snazzy blog post titles, here I am with what has to be the most uninspired post title ever. And yet, it will have to do, as this is a sneaky way of getting a post in befor...
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Simply Mapping
Easy mapping with Simple Features – First attempts with simple features The latest edition of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) was released last year, and has been getting a bit more promotion recently as part of Scotland’s open data – for example, an R package has been made available to calculate the SIMD rankings...
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Simply Mapping
Give me fuel, give me fire, reduced deprivation’s my desire – First attempts with simple features The latest edition of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) was released last year, and has been getting a bit more promotion recently as part of Scotland’s open data – for example, an R package has been made available to...
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Mapping to a ‘t'(map)
tmap More maps of the Highlands? Yep, same as last time, but no need to install dev versions of anything, we can get awesome maps courtesy of the tmap package. Get the shapefile from the last post library(tmap) library(tmaptools) library(viridis) scot <- read_shape("SG_SIMD_2016.shp", as.sf = TRUE) highland <- (scot[scot$LAName=="Highland",...
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Mapping to a ‘t'(map)
tmap More maps of the Highlands? Yep, same as last time, but no need to install dev versions of anything, we can get awesome maps courtesy of the tmap package. Get the shapefile from the last post library(tmap) library(tmaptools) library(viridis) scot <- read_shape("SG_SIMD_2016.shp", as.sf = TRUE) highland <- (scot[scot$LAName=="Highland",...
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It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..
A tidytext analysis of Faith No More lyrics – Is this a midlife crisis? I wanted to ease myself back into text mining, specifically using the tidytext package as I haven’t had to do any at work for well over a year. I’ve been thinking about some of the old bands of the 90’s, some of whom split up, and then reformed. I was interes...
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It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..
A tidytext analysis of Faith No More lyrics – Is this a midlife crisis? I wanted to ease myself back into text mining,specifically using the tidytext package as I haven’t had to do any at work for well over a year. I’ve been thinking about some of the old bands of the 90’s, some of whom split up, and then reformed. I was interest...
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It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it..
A tidytext analysis of Faith No More lyrics – Is this a midlife crisis? I wanted to ease myself back into text mining,specifically using the tidytext package as I haven’t had to do any at work for well over a year. I’ve been thinking about some of the old bands of the 90’s, some of whom split up, and then reformed. I was interest...
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