One of the great things about creating data viz with ggplot is that you can create color palettes that match your or your clients’ branding. We’ve written about how we do this in our consulting work. But the way we work is fairly complicated and I was asked recently for a simpler solution to making
For the past several years, I’ve worked on a report called Oregon by the Numbers. In this project, I use R to make every single plot in the report: over 250 plots each year. In the time I’ve worked on this project, I’ve become more and more
Every once in a while, I talk to tell someone about a project we’re working on at R for the Rest of Us and they say to me, “wow, I didn’t even know you did that type of work!” I, like nearly everyone, often get so busy that we forget to share what we’re so
Have you heard about ChatGPT? It’s the latest in a line of AI tools that may transform how we write and how we code. ChatGPT takes a question and returns an answer. And it does so in a very human-sounding way. You know Siri? It’s kind of like that, but actually good.
I recently gave a talk titled No Designer Needed: How to Create Beautiful Reports Using Only R at the CANSSI Ontario Statistical Software Conference. This talk showed how we at R for the Rest of Us use the pagedownpackage to make high-quality PDF reports for our clients. In the talk, I explained the two approaches
One of the most important tips we teach participants in R in 3 Months is to always use RStudio projects. There are a lot of resources out there that explain why this is useful (see, especially, Jenny Bryan’s article Project-Oriented Workflow). But many of these resources go a bit over the head of newcomers.
