docxtools is an R package for helping me create classroom and workshop handouts as well as to practice creating and maintaining an R package. In the update just completed, I …
Another look at a misleading graph. Part 1: Critique
On 2015-09-29 in a televised Congressional hearing, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Chairman of the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, challenged Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of …
Continuing experimenting with the reach package
Continuing my experimenting with the reach package (by Christoph Schmidt) for R, I’ve begun developing tools for using R Markdown to create course materials that include MATLAB syntax and output. My goal is …
Improving the reproducibilty of MATLAB computing with R, RStudio, and reach
Why run MATLAB from R? My engineering students use MATLAB for a lot of their computational work, so I have quite a number of labs, tutorials, homework sets, etc. that …
Using Rmd to write about using Rmd
In reproducing Jenny Bryan’s article on including verbatim R chunks in R Markdown (Rmd) scripts, I initially forgot John Gruber’s markdown basics for verbatim code output: To specify an entire …
Fixing one graph at a time
In August 2007, Science published a bar graph that illustrates how design decisions made to attract a reader’s eye can also distort and conceal meaning. While the distortions were surely unintentional, the …
Rmd to docx collaboration superpowers!
Introduction: who, why, and how? Who this post is for. This post is for RStudio users who want to use R Markdown (Rmd) scripts to create Word (docx) documents and …
First steps towards reproducible research
Credibility in computational science Scientific credibility, especially in computation, turns largely on the success or failure of attempts to reproduce findings. Reproducibility has become a topic of discussion in many disciplines …
Readings on graph design
Workshop attendees have asked what readings I recommend on graph design. If you were to read just one book on creating effective graphs, I recommend N. Robbins. Creating more effective graphs. …
Short review: 3 books on reproducible research with R
Reproducible research can be defined in a number of ways. My personal, practical definition is the tying together of code and text such that the provenance of the work—from gathering …