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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Three New Interesting Books on Data Science/Machine Learning
Three new practical books on Data Science/Machine Learning have got published recently. All three are introductory level books taking Hands-on approaches to teach Machine Learning and Data Science toolbox. All three books are great additions to learn Machine Learning with minimal math. Hands-on Machine Learning with R Hands-on Machine Learning with R by Brad Boehmke […]
How To Change Axis Tick Marks in R?
One of most common things one might do while making plots is to change tiny details of the plot to make them better. Often, one of such adjustments are changing x-axis tick mark label/text on a plot made with ggplot2 in R. Let us use ggplot2 to make plot first and then fix its x-axis […]
Book Review – Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Duke University Professor Kieran Healy is a great introduction Data Visualization. If you have not heard of the book before, here is a little back story. The author, Kieran Healy developed the book using R Bookdown and made the whole book available online for free. Yes, it is available […]
How To Install a R Package Locally and Load it Easily?
R has been one of the popular languages for anything to do with large amount of data. There are loads of useful packages that let you get started immediately in using a wide realm of statistical/computational tools. Installing an R package is easy. Typically, R Packages can be downloaded as “tar.gz” file for Mac OS […]