Publications by tylerrinker
Workflow w/ reports package
NOTE: THIS IS NOW A PACKAGE SEE THIS LINK FOR DETAILS Let me start with a video for people who just want to see what I’m demo-ing first: I’ve been interested in speeding up workflow lately and spending a lot of time doing so. I’ve seen people already try to tackle this in R in the past. This blog post covers many aspects of workflow and...
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reports 0.1.2 Released
I’m very pleased to announce the release of reports : An R package to assist in the workflow of writing academic articles and other reports. This is the first CRAN release of reports: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reports/index.html The reports package assists in writing reports and presentations by providing a frame work that brings t...
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qdap 0.2.1 Released
I’m very pleased to announce the release of qdap 0.2.1 This is the second installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. The qdap package automates many of the tasks associated with quantitative discourse analysis of transcripts containing discourse, including frequency counts of sentence types, words, sentence, turns of talk, syllable cou...
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knitr2wordpress and gradient_cloud Revisited
This post serves three function: It allows me to revisit an old blogpost It let's me test out the new-ish knitr function knti2wp and RWordPress It enables me to avoid the massive ammount of reading I need to do and still feel like I'm doing “work” The follwoing packages are needed to run the code: install.packages(c("knitr", "qdap")) instal...
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Animations Understood
When I first saw a graphic made from Yihui’s animation package (Xie, 2013) I was amazed at the magic and thought “I could never do that”. Passage of time… One night I found myself bored and as usual avoiding work. I decided to try learning how to make an animation and an epiphany hit me in the head. Figure 1: Animated gif of guy getting ...
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Sharing my R notes
I started working with R 2 1/2 years ago. I remember opening R closing it and thinking it was the dumbest thing ever (command line to a non programmer is not inviting). Now it’s my constant friend. From the beginning I took notes to remind myself all of the things I learned and relearned. They’ve been invaluable to me in learning. They are no...
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qdap 0.2.2 released
I’m very pleased to announce the release of qdap 0.2.2 This is the third installment of the qdap package available at CRAN. The qdap package automates many of the tasks associated with quantitative discourse analysis of transcripts containing discourse, including frequency counts of sentence types, words, sentence, turns of talk, syllable coun...
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The Mechanics of Data Visualization
I recently presented about the mechanics of data visualization at the CLaRI Literacy Conference to a group of researchers, teachers and school administrators. The presentation is based on the work of Few (2012; 2009). While the presentation itself is not about R directly, the slides were created by reports(Rinker, 2013)/slidify (Vaidyanathan, 2...
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ggplot2 Chloropleth of Supreme Court Decisions: A Tutorial
I don't do much GIS but I like to. It's rather enjoyable and involves a tremendous skill set. Often you will find your self grabbing data sets from some site, scraping, data cleaning and reshaping, and graphing. On the ride home from work yesterday I heard an NPR talk about the Supreme Court decisions being very close with this court. This go...
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How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot revisited
Back in October of last year I wrote a blog post about reordering/rearanging plots. This was, and continues to be, a frequent question on list serves and R help sites. In light of my recent studies/presenting on The Mechanics of Data Visualization, based on the work of Stephen Few (2012, 2009), I realized I was remiss in explaining the orderin...
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