Those of us who work with R dream of just one thing: getting clean data, ready for analysis. Rarely does this happen, of course. As Steve Lohr wrote in the New York Times in 2014, those working with data: spend from 50 percent to 80 percent of their time mired in this
I recently got a question about making interactive graphs in R. Sara Kidd of the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission asked me the following: I am wondering what is the easiest/most efficient way to create interactive graphs and then embed them into a web page. While I will have a need for
Using Git and GitHub alongside RStudio has the power to revolutionize how you work in R. But getting everything set up can be a challenge. Join me as I walk through everything you need to do in order to use Git and GitHub alongside RStudio. But first, some background …
tldr: Thomas Vroylandt and I have developed a package called pagedreport to help you make beautiful PDF reports from RMarkdown. Full documentation is available here. In a recent training, I showed the group I was working with various options for knitting RMarkdown documents. When I got to PDF, I showed the default
Have you ever had to make a set of reports that all look alike? Perhaps you’re making one report for each school in your district. Doing this manually is, I probably don’t need to tell you, a huge pain. Fortunately, R has a solution to this problem: parameterized reporting. Parameterized reporting is
A user who recently completed my Getting Started with R course sent me an email to ask a common question for those starting out with R: How do you keep your R software up to date? As far as I know, there are no automatic updates for R, RStudio and packages. And
