In the R programming language, the de facto standard framework for drawing rectangular coordinates is ggplot2. The most important feature of ggplot2 is that it is object-oriented and uses the plus ...

Labeling all or some of your data with text can help tell a story — even when your graph is using other cues like color and size. ggplot has a couple of built-in ways of doing this, and the ggrepel ...

Note the column name, mpg, is unquoted. That feature hasn’t been handy, though, if you want to write your own R functions using the tidyverse. That’s because base R functions usually need quoted ...

The CBC covered the recent (as of the original post-time on this blog entry) Quebec elections and used a well-crafted hex grid map to display results: They have a ...

This is commonly needed in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), there may be other uses too. Briefly mentioned this to @pzwang and @bryevdv and it was thought to be a good idea. Coordinates of a ...

ogrInfo("data\\Pedway_Rou.json", layer="OGRGeoJSON") # Checks projection type for readOGR(), number of rows (55747) and fields (44). Replace PATH\\TO with actual file ...