"I would argue that the most important tool for reproducible research is not Sweave or knitr but GNU make."-Karl Broman, "minimal make." kbroman.org. Karl also has tutorials on git/github, knitr, R packages, making a web site with GitHub Pages, data organization, and reproducible research.
Tag: R
A Community is Defined By Its Center and Not Its Periphery
"My sense is that you need to build up a nucleus of people who know each other and who can network and support each other [in developing a proficiency in a technology with the complexity of R.]"—Hadley Wickham in an interview with Dan Kopf, "What’s next for the popular programming language R?" Quartz. August 17, … Continue reading A Community is Defined By Its Center and Not Its Periphery
The tidyverse style guide
All style guides are fundamentally opinionated. Some decisions genuinely do make code easier to use (especially matching indenting to programming structure), but many decisions are arbitrary. The most important thing about a style guide is that it provides consistency, making code easier to write because you need to make fewer decisions."-Hadley Wickham, "The tidyverse style … Continue reading The tidyverse style guide
The Stages of Relationships, Distributed | FlowingData
Bubble animation showing the stages of a relationship, i.e., first met, romantic, living together, and married, over time with two halves showing the differences between the 1970s and 2010s. Key insight, living together is much more prevalent now. https://flowingdata.com/2019/03/26/relationship-stages/
Two Computing Revolutions, Exhibit R: Manipulating & Visualizing MASIE Sea Ice Data
Back in April 2018, I mentioned the idea of two computing revolutions: "There are two computer revolutions. One revolution is trying to abstract out the technology and present people with an easy, touch interface to accomplish specific tasks. Using your phone to take a picture, send a text message, post to social media, play YouTube … Continue reading Two Computing Revolutions, Exhibit R: Manipulating & Visualizing MASIE Sea Ice Data
How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism Team Works With Graphics in R
"Over the past year, data journalists on the BBC Visual and Data Journalism team have fundamentally changed how they produce graphics for publication on the BBC News website. In this post, we explain how and why we have used R’s ggplot2 package to create production-ready charts, document our process and code and share what we … Continue reading How the BBC Visual and Data Journalism Team Works With Graphics in R
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