Ever since I started working on my book R Without Statistics people have asked me for details on how I’m writing it. If your mental model for how a book gets written involves dozens of Word documents, you may be in for a surprise (my father certainly was). In writing R
n early 2020, I started to have conversations with publishers about doing a book on R. I was excited about the possibility, but wasn’t exactly sure what the book would be about. Then COVID came and, with two young kids at home, writing a book was not going to happen. In the
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak to some folks at Western Michigan University. I called my talk Why R is Magic. Because, well, it is. I busted out my favorite R party trick: doing a survey and immediately generating a report with RMarkdown. I even tried
Ever been using R and gotten this message? `summarise()` ungrouping output (override with `.groups` argument) What the heck does it mean? This is not an error. It’s just R’s way (the dplyr package specifically) of telling you what is happening with your data.
Tidy data is one of the most complex concepts for participants in R in 3 Months. Even before they get to the actual coding involved in data tidying, many struggle with what tidy data is exactly. I introduce tidy data to R in 3 Months participants through this lesson (which comes from
As 2021 comes to a close, I wanted to share what R for the Rest of Us has been up to this year. It’s been a busy year and just trying to remember everything we did has been a challenge! You’ll notice first of all that I said we. I’ve always used
