forcats::fct_match
This journey started almost exactly a year ago, but it’s finally been sufficiently worked through and merged! Yay, I’ve officially contributed to the tidyverse (minor as it may be). It...continue reading.
Author: Jonathan Carroll
Even more images as x-axis labels
This is the last update to this strange saga… I hope. Easily two of the most popular posts on my blog are this one and this one describing a couple...continue reading.
Adding strings in R
This started out as a “hey, I wonder…” sort of thing, but as usual, they tend to end up as interesting voyages into the deepest depths of code, so I...continue reading.
Constricted development with reticulate
I’ve been using the reticulate package occasionally for a while now, so I was surprised to see that it had only just been officially released. reticulate: R interface to Python...continue reading.
JC and the Vignettes
If that’s not a great 1960’s band name then I don’t know what is (hint: I don’t know what is). At the start of the year I set out my...continue reading.
Thou shalt not compare numeric values (except when it works)
This was just going to be a few Tweets but it ended up being a bit of a rollercoaster of learning for me, and I haven’t blogged in far too...continue reading.
Data Munging With R Preview — Storing Values (Assigning)
Since about October last year, I’ve been writing an introduction to R book. It’s been quite the experience. I’ve finally started making time to document some of the interesting things...continue reading.
2016 Australian Federal Election Flexdashboard
Here in the land down under we’ve finally completed our Federal election. We complain that it seems to go on for too long, but it’s a brief distraction compared to...continue reading.
Images as x-axis labels (updated)
They say “if you want to find an answer on the internet, just present a wrong one as fact. Then wait.“ It didn’t take long, actually. Despite my searches while...continue reading.
Images as x-axis labels
Open-source software is awesome. If I found that a piece of closed-source software was missing a feature that I wanted, well, bad luck. I probably couldn’t even tell if was...continue reading.
From a (set.)seed grows a mighty dataset
Can you predict the output from this code? Okay, the first bit is straightforward; it’s a function that puts two string together into one. The next two lines appear to...continue reading.
Bad Neighbours (no, not the movie)
Another day, another compulsion to see if I can do any better than someone’s solution. This one also comes from the FiveThiryEight Puzzler challenge courtesy of Xi’an The original challenge...continue reading.
Solving Inequality (the math kind)
This neat approach showed up recently as an answer to a FiveThirtyEight puzzle and of course I couldn’t help but throw it at dplyr as soon as I could. Turns...continue reading.
