Publications by hrbrmstr
Introducing the {ethercalc} package
I mentioned EtherCalc in a previous post and managed to scrounge some time to put together a fledgling {ethercalc} package (it’s also on GitLab, SourceHut, Bitbucket and GitUgh, just sub out the appropriate URL prefix). I’m creating a package-specific Docker image (there are a couple out there but I’m not supporting their use with the packa...
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Quick hit: Some ggplot2 Stat ???? for {logspline}
I’ve become a big fan of the {logspline} package over the past ~6 months and decided to wrap up a manual ggplot2 plotting process (well, it was at least in an RStudio snippet) into a small {ggplot2} Stat to make it easier to visualize various components of the fitted model. If you’re new to logspline density estimation this paper by Stone, Ha...
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Quick Hit: Above the Fold; Hard wrapping text at ‘n’ characters
Despite being on holiday I’m getting in a bit of non-work R coding since the fam has a greater ability to sleep late than I do. Apart from other things I’ve been working on a PR into {lutz}, a package by @andyteucher that turns lat/lng pairs into timezone strings. The package is super neat and has two modes: “fast” (originally based on a ...
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Quick hit: ‘dig’-ging Into r-project.org DNS Records with {processx}
The r-project.org domain had some temporary technical difficulties this week (2019-29) that made reaching R-related resources problematic for a bunch of folks for a period of time. Incidents like this underscore the need for regional and network diversity when it comes to ensuring the availability of DNS services. That is, it does no good if you ...
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Make Refreshing Segmented Column Charts with {ggchicklet}
The first U.S. Democratic debates of the 2020 election season were held over two nights this past week due to the daft number of candidates running for POTUS. The spiffy @NYTgraphics folks took the tallies of time spent blathering by each speaker/topic and made rounded rectangle segmented bar charts ordered by the time the blathering was performe...
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Quick Hit: {waffle} 1.0 Font Awesome 5 Pictograms and More
The {waffle} package got some this week and now has a substantially improved geom_waffle() along with a brand new sibling function geom_pictogram() which has all the powerful new features of geom_waffle() but lets you use Font Awesome 5 brand and solid glyphs to make isotype pictograms. Click to view slideshow. A major new feature is that stat_w...
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Quick Hit: A Different (Diminutive) Look At Distributions With {ggeconodist}
Despite being a full-on denizen of all things digital I receive a fair number of dead-tree print magazines as there’s nothing quite like seeing an amazing, large, full-color print data-driven visualization up close and personal. I also like supporting data journalism through the subscriptions since without cash we will only have insane, extreme...
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Two New Testing-themed Addins + One New and One Updated CRAN Package
It’s been yet-another weirdly busy summer but I’m finally catching up on noting some recent-ish developments in the blog. First up is a full rewrite of the {wand} pacakge which still uses magic but is 100% R code (vs a mix of compiled C and R code) and now works on Windows. A newer version will be up on CRAN in a bit that has additional MIME ...
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Quick Hit: A new 64-bit Swift 5 RSwitch App
At the bottom of the R for macOS Developer’s Page there’s mention of an “other binary” called “RSwitch” that is “a small GUI that allows you to switch between R versions quickly (if you have multiple versions of R framework installed).” Said switching requires you to use the “tar.gz” versions of R from the R for macOS Develope...
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Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: “Why Can’t Johnny Code?”)
I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can’t Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same subject and you should read both before continuing. Back? Great! Let’s dig in. Why does hrbrmstr care about this? Offspring #3 completed his Freshman year at UMaine Orono last yea...
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