Publications by tylerrinker
pacman 0.2.0: Initial CRAN Release
We’re please to announce the first CRAN release of pacman v. 0.2.0. pacman is the combined work of Dason Kurkiewicz & Tyler Rinker. pacman is an R package management tool that combines the functionality of base library related functions into intuitively named functions. This package is ideally added to .Rprofile to increase workflow by reduci...
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Random Data Sets Quickly
This post will discuss a recent GitHub package I’m working on, wakefield to generate random data sets. The post is broken into the following sections: Demo 1.1 Random Variable Functions 1.2 Random Data Frames 1.3 Missing Values 1.4 Default Data Set Future Direction Getting Involved You can view just the R code HERE or PDF version HERE One o...
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Wakefield: Random Data Set (Part II)
This post is part II of a series detailing the GitHub package, wakefield, for generating random data sets. The First Post (part I) was a test run to gauge user interest. I received positive feedback and some ideas for improvements, which I’ll share below. The post is broken into the following sections: 1 Brief Package Descriptio...
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Cracking Safe Cracker with R
My wife got me a Safe Cracker 40 puzzle a while back. I believe I misplaced the solution some time back. The company, Creative Crafthouse, stands behind their products. They had amazing customer service and promptly supplied me with a solution. I’d supply the actual wheels as a cutout paper version but this is their property so this blog will b...
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How do I re-arrange??: Ordering a plot re-revisited
Several years back I wrote a two part blog series in response to seeing questions about plotting and reordering on list serves, talkstats.com, and stackoverflow. Part I discussed the basics of reordering plots by reordering factor levels. The essential gist was: So if you catch yourself using “re-arrange”/”re-order” and “plot” in...
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pacman Ver 0.4.1 Release
It was just over a year ago that Dason Kurkiewicz and I released pacman to CRAN. We have been developing the package on GitHub in the past 14 months and are pleased to announce these changes have made their way to CRAN in version 0.4.1. What Does pacman Do? pacman is an R package management tool that combines the functionality of base library ...
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googleformr at Work: Pneumatic Road Tube Allegory
Steve Simpson (@data_steve) created the googleformr package to enable users to easily send information to a Google Form. It’s a nice way to send and securely store data via R and the price is great…FREE! A Pneumatic Road Tube Allegory…Kinda My team has been working on a data validation task at work and we’ve built a couple of interna...
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Ordering Categories within ggplot2 Facets (followup)
I saw Simon Jackson’s recent blog post regarding ordering categories within facets. He proposed a way of dealing with the problem of ordering variables shared across facets within facets. This problem becomes apparent in text analysis where words are shared across facets but differ in frequency/magnitude ordering within each facet. ...
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Easily Make Multi-tabbed .xlsx Files with openxlsx
This is a quick script showing how to make multi-tabbed .xlsx files. I recently had the need to do this and used the flexible openxlsx package maintained by : Alexander Walker. The package is described by the author like this: openxlsx: Read, Write and Edit XLSX Files Simplifies the creation of Excel .xlsx files by providing a high level interfac...
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Minimal, Explicit, Python Style Package Loading for R
About a year and a half back I was working in Python a bit and became accustomed to the explicit importing of modules (akin to R packages) and functions. Python imports packages like this: import tidyr import dplyr as dp from plyr import l_ply, rbind.fill If these R packages were in Python, the first line imports tidyr, the second imports dp...
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