data:mtcars

Recently one of my coworkers showed me a ggplot and although it is not wrong, it is also not ideal. Here is the TL:DR : Whenever you find yourself adding multiple geom_* to show different groups, reshape your data In software engineering there are things called antipatterns, ways of programming that lead you into potential trouble. This is one of them. I’m not saying it is incorrect, but it might lead you into trouble. [Read More]

A quick Random R thing I use a lot, recently learned, and I want you to know it too. In this post I’ll show you how to make a quick interactive plot with ggplot and plotly, so that values are displayed when you hover your mouse over it. Why would you want this? If you are exploring the data, you want some quick insights into which values are where. [Read More]

THIS POST IS NO LONGER ENTIRELY RELEVANT. DPLYR 0.7 HAS A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT (AND SLIGHTLY MORE INTUITIVE) WAY OF WORKING WITH NON-STANDARD EVALUATION. EDIT: IT IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NOW. AND I RECOMMEND https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/. I love the dplyr package with all of its functions, however if you use normal dplyr in functions in your package r-cmd-check will give you a warning: R CMD check NOTE: No visible binding for global variable NAME OF YOUR VARIABLE 1. [Read More]

In this post we will start with a build-in dataset and some basic ggplot graphics. In the next post we will combine dplyr and ggplot to do awesome stuff with the Dutch University student counts from the previous lessons. We will work with the build-in dataset mtcars. There are many datasets in r library(help = "datasets") but in many examples online you will see the iris and mtcars examples. Find more information about the dataset with ? [Read More]