Category Archives: R

ggPlotting tips with OPIG data

Ever wondered whether opiglets keep their ketchup in the fridge or cupboard? Perhaps you’ve wanted to know how to create nice figure to display lots of information simulataniously. Publication quality figures are easy in R with the ggplot package. We may also learn some good visualisation.

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Reproducible publishing

I’m a big fan of Jupyter Notebooks. They’re a great way to document and explain code, and even better, you can run this code when connected to an appropriate kernel.

What if you want to work on something larger than a notebook? Say a chapter or even a whole book, with Python, R, Observable JS, or Julia code? Enter Quarto. You can combine Jupyter notebooks and/or plain text markdown to publish production quality articles, presentations, dashboards, website, blogs and books in HTML, PDF, Microsoft Word, ePub, and other formats. Quarto can also connect to publishing platforms like Posit Connect, Confluence Cloud, and others.

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