ggplot2, the R package that lets you create graphics using the Grammar of Graphics has a new version. The new version of ggplot2; version 3.3.0 has lots of changes and it available on CRAN. Introducing ggplot2 v 3.3.0 Thomas Lin Pedersen says that the new version “is packed with features, big and small” and a […]
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Introduction to the new lumping functions in forcats version 0.5.0
forcats, one of the key tidyverse R packages, for dealing with factors in R has a new version 0.5.0 on CRAN with a lot of new changes. If you have not heard of forcats before, it is a R package part of tidyverse that provides “a suite of tools that solve common problems with factors, […]
Faceting and Reordering with ggplot2
Faceting is a great data visualization technique that uses “small multiples” i.e. the use of same type of plots multiple times in a panel. Each “small multiple” is a same type of plot but for a different group or category in the data. ggplot2 makes it really easy to make such “small multiples” with faceting. […]
R For Data Science Book Gets tidyr 1.0.0 Friendly
R for Data Science book by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham is the best book for doing data science with tidyverse. tidyverse, the meta-package, has loads of useful packages like tidyr, dplyr, and ggplot2 to make your life as data scientist easy. Last fall, tidyr package got a big update with version 1.0.0. Until now, […]
Slides from RStudio Conference 2020 #rstudioconf
RStudio Conference 2020, one of the biggest R/data science conferences ended this week. Among many interesting things at the conference, one of the biggest announcements was that “RStudio has become a Public Benefit Corporation“. This year’s RStudio conference was at San Francisco and next year RStudio conference 2021 will be at Orlando, Florida. For all […]