Publications by HighlandR

More tidy evaluation with ggplot2

03.07.2018

Following up the follow up – After my previous post, my good friend David Henderson asked a good question on Twitter ( it happens :)) To be honest, I hadn’t even noticed there was no tilde (the ‘~’ ) in my call to facet_wrap. So I did a little experiment : library(dplyr) library(ggplot2) library(tidyr) library(tibble) data ...

1548 sym R (1293 sym/3 pcs) 4 img

Mid Table Mediocrity

10.08.2018

Visualising potential winners in the Scottish Championship – Last August, I was given a surprise gift of a season ticket to watch my local football team, Inverness Caledonian Thistle. They’d been relegated from the top league in Scotland the season before, and needed all the local support they could get. In truth, the gift ( from my ...

5092 sym R (1999 sym/5 pcs) 18 img

Mid Table Mediocrity

10.08.2018

Visualising potential winners in the Scottish Championship – Last August, I was given a surprise gift of a season ticket to watch my local football team, Inverness Caledonian Thistle. They’d been relegated from the top league in Scotland the season before, and needed all the local support they could get. In truth, the gift ( from my ...

4890 sym R (1999 sym/5 pcs) 18 img

Where am I?

22.09.2018

Notes on the here package – The here package is pretty simple ( only 3 functions), but I keep messing things up when I try to create paths with it, so this is my aide-memoire. It might be useful for others too. Here finds the root of your current folder / working directory. If you use Projects in RStudio, that will usually be the root ...

2028 sym R (122 sym/8 pcs)

Where am I?

22.09.2018

Notes on the here package – The here package is pretty simple ( only 3 functions), but I cannot remember how to use it to navigate folders, so this is my aide-memoire. It might be useful for others too. Here finds the root of your current folder / working directory. If you use Projects in RStudio, that will usually be the root of your ...

971 sym R (524 sym/1 pcs)

Thoughts on the NHS-R conference

30.10.2018

It’s been a few weeks since the first NHS-R conference was held in Birmingham. I co-presented a couple of workshops with Neil Pettinger on visualising patient flow, covering the following importing from Excel (and connecting to SQL Server) dplyr ggplot2 & plotly gifski for basic animation automating reports with officer gganimate demo ti...

2887 sym

Thoughts on the NHS-R conference

30.10.2018

It’s been a few weeks since the first NHS-R conference was held in Birmingham. I co-presented a couple of workshops with Neil Pettinger on visualising patient flow, covering the following importing from Excel (and connecting to SQL Server) dplyr ggplot2 & plotly gifski for basic animation automating reports with officer gganimate demo ti...

2887 sym

Automatic (slides) for the people

29.11.2018

Creating and saving multiple plots to Powerpoint At the NHS R conference we delivered a session on animating patient flow. This started with a single plot showing all patient movements, and then I demonstrated the ability to create a faceted plot. But, with many different areas, and a small plot space, the faceted plot was a bit meh really. So wh...

1429 sym R (4976 sym/1 pcs)

Automatic (slides) for the people

29.11.2018

Creating and saving multiple plots to Powerpoint At the NHS R conference we delivered a session on animating patient flow. This started with a single plot showing all patient movements, and then I demonstrated the ability to create a faceted plot. But, with many different areas, and a small plot space, the faceted plot was a bit meh really. So wh...

1429 sym R (4976 sym/1 pcs)

Creating and saving multiple plots to Powerpoint

29.11.2018

At the NHS R conference we delivered a session on animating patient flow. This started with a single plot showing all patient movements, and then I demonstrated the ability to create a faceted plot. But, with many different areas, and a small plot space, the faceted plot was a bit meh really. So what else could we do? How about creating individua...

1380 sym R (4976 sym/1 pcs)