Publications by R with White Dwarf
Map any region in the world with R – Part IV: Object Oriented Programming in R with S3
You can find all the posts on this series under the tag maps-app (including the Spanish versions). You can also find the current state of the project under my GitHub repo mapic. Scope of this post We are creating maps of data showing changes over a span of time for different countries and pointing at all kinds of cities. That basically means that w...
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Adding a website next to your Shiny server
I have been off from the blog lately due to a big load of personal projects. Just lately I got a few days off and found time to work on my personal website, to be ready soon. That made me get more into Nginx configuration, where I consider myself a total rookie. However, I was mainly adding a few domains that are intended for different purposes. Th...
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Map any region in the world with R – Part III: Programming with ggplot2
You can find all the posts on this series under the tag maps-app (including the Spanish versions). You can also find the current state of the project under my GitHub repo mapic. Scope of this post We are creating maps of data showing changes over a span of time for different countries and pointing at all kinds of cities. That basically means that w...
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Webscrap e iteraciones con R
Sobre este post Estamos creando mapas de datos que muestran los cambios durante un período de tiempo para diferentes países y orientado a todo tipo de ciudades. Esto básicamente significa que necesitamos mapear cualquier región del mundo con R. Hoy en día existen todo tipo de paquetes y técnicas para hacerlo. Quiero compartir la estrategia qu...
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Webscrap and iteration in R
About this post We are creating maps of data showing changes over a span of time for different countries and pointing at all kinds of cities. That basically means that we need to map any region of the world with R. Today there are all kinds of packages and techniques to do that. I will share the strategy I used with ggplot2 and maps packages, using...
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Reference: Dockerizing shinny apps
Andrew Couch has a nice video about deploying a shiny app using docker. He goes from the very basics, that asume no knowledge of docker whatsoever, which is the position of many R users like myself. I’ve been working in some shiny app lately, and although I’ve never needed docker so far, I decided to start learning it because I can already for...
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Referencia: Dockerizando shinny apps
Andrew Couch tiene un video genial sobre como poner una aplicación shiny en docker. El video está en inglés, pero bien vale la pena. Va desde lo más básico, sin asumir ningún conocimiento de docker, lo cual es la situación de muchos usuarios de R como yo mismo. Últimamente he estado trabajando en unas aplicaciones Shiny y a pesar de que nun...
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Deploy your own Shiny app server with debian
A few weeks ago I opened an account on Digital Ocean to start my own cloud server. Not long after that I took a workshop on Shiny and, although it was too technical with nothing new for me, I learn a couple of things unrelated to R. The speaker was talking about the importance of making your portfolio showing your apps instead of sharing the link...
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Mini tutorial: hacer tipo lógico cualquier texto
Acerca de este post. Este es mi primer post en español. Es en realidad la traducción de un post que escribí originalmente en inglés hace un par de meses. Pueden ver el post original aqui. Espero que sea útil para la comunidad hispanohablante de usuarios de R. Este post se basa en un trabajo reciente donde mi tarea fue la revisión y depuraci...
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Efficiency comparison of dplyr and tidyr functions vs base R
A couple of years ago I was interested in the efficiency of R when it comes to time processing and management of memory and I read a few blog posts about this topic, particularly pointing at the fact that R hasn’t been designed to be a very efficient language, especially when it comes to big data processing, and this could be its doom at some p...
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