2_Useful_blogposts.md

Useful links

With this page I intend to keep track of some useful tutorials or blogposts.

Webinars and videos

• Rstudio webinars and conference materials

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R-Weekly

Collection of blogs and tutorials - published weekly:

• Latest publication

• Archive

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Selected Blog Posts

Plots

• Visual vocabulary

• Beautiful highlight plots

• Other way to do highlight plots

• The ggplot extension gallery

• Fixing the bar chart issue when no data is present - Hadley's answer to me. Requires the latest dev version of ggplot2.

• Creating corporate colour palettes

• Compilation of ggplot color palettes

• Geofacet plots

• Take a sad plot and make it better

• Annotations

Spatial

• Drawing beautiful maps programmatically with R, sf and ggplot2

Dplyr advanced

• Dplyr Data Wrangling Part 1: Basic to Advanced Ways to Select Columns

• Dplyr Data Wrangling Part 2: Mutating your columns into the right shape

• Dplyr Data Wrangling Part 3: Basic and more advanced ways to filter rows

• Dplyr Data Wrangling Part 4: Summarizing and slicing your data

• Programming with dplyr - including the !! bang bang operator

Purrr

• Purrr tutorial by Jenny Bryan

• Purrr tutorial by Charlotte Wickham

• Purrr into for RLadies by Jennifer Thompson

• Crazy thing called purrr - first one in a series of six

• Introduction to purrr

• Purrr Intro by Emorie Beck

• How to write a purrr-like adverb

data.table

• advanced data.table

Regex

• Dynamic regex in R

Stats

• Inference mind map

• A titanic kaggle solve using caret and tidy-tools

Making packages

• Maëlle Salmon's how To make good packages

• packages for internal data

• Hillary Parker - Making packages from scratch

• Package good practices

• Making your first R package

• R package primer

• rOpenSci packages guide

• Colin Fay's one day workshop at ERUM

• Writing a package from scratch

Slides

• Alison's Xaringan post

• Larie's getting started with xaringan

• Xaringan wiki

Tidy Eval

• Hadley's talk on Rstudio conference 2018

• Tidy eval in 5 minutes

• Tidy Eval in Advanced R Book - Chapters 18-21

• Tidy Eval: How do I make my own dplyr-style functions?

Git

• Atlassian GIT tutorials

Databases

• Setting up a database connection

Webscraping

• Scraping javascript rendered sites

• Scraping Javascript websites in R

R Markdown/Markdown

• YAML header options

• Markdown cheat sheet

• Getting your table of contents where you want (Rmd) it

Blogdown

• Hugo shortcodes

Shiny

• A Shiny App to Visualize and Share My Dogs’ Medical History

Miscellaneous

• Making GIFs in R to add to a blog

• Gorgeous colour palette

• Package for manipulation of office documents

• Jenny on package "here"

• Generating codebooks about your dataset in R

• So you've been asked to make a reprex

• Rtweet workshop by Mike Kearney

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Other platforms

Python

• Extensive Python notes

• Dplyr versus Pandas

• Dplyr versus python

Plots

• Raw graphs

• Flourish