Patchwork, the R package that lets you combine multiple figures made by ggplot2, got a big update late last year and it is on CRAN now. If you have not heard of Patchwork, it is an R package made by the awesome Thomas Lin Pedersen. Patchwork lets you combine separate plots made by ggplot to […]
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31 Days of #rstats Resources Advent
R community is amazing with sharing excellent learning resources for free. And it seems never ending!. If you are like me, you might have missed a lot of “#rstats resource advent” daily tweets containing fantastic R resources from RStudio’s Mara Averick (@dataandme). Not to worry, you have all the #rstats resource advent tweets from Day […]
10 Tricks for tidyverse in R
Just happened to come across this tweet about David Robinson’s talk on “Ten Tremendous Tricks for Tidyverse”. It looked like a fantastic and useful talk. These ten tricks involve tidyverse functions one may not have heard of or thought of using in a scenario. The first four tidyverse tips is about counting and summarizing, next […]
9 Tips to Make Better Scatter Plots with ggplot2 in R
Scatter plot is one of the common data visualization method used to understand the relationship between two quantitative variables. When there is strong association between two variables you would easily see the relationship with scatterplot. However, when the relationship is subtle it may be tricky to see it. In this post we will see 9 […]
8 tips to make better barplots with ggplot2 in R
Barplots or barcharts are extremely handy visualization technique for a variety of situations. It is of great use when you have multiple of categories and quickly visualize the counts of each category. In this post, we will start with how to make simple barplots using ggplot2 in R. Then we will see many examples of […]