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font notes

I have been getting brave with fonts in my ggplots and running into problems with fonts not appearing the same in my quarto doc and exported png files. BlueSky advice was…

selective annotations

My friend Lisa called me with a ggplot challenge the other day. She was trying to work out how to have only some of her points labelled with annotations. Here are some notes…

what happened? what now?

I think about academia like a train that I jumped on way back when I was a baby scientist. The first time one of your professors sees potential in you, they invite you to…

30dayChartChallenge debrief

Where did April go? The #30DayChartChallenge is all done. As predicted, I didn’t manage to do it every day, but committing to try and make charts related to each of the…

Pūteketeke Pandemonium

This post is my first attempt at a closeread scrollytelling story. It tells the story of the Pūteketeke controversy that plagued the Forest and Bird NZ Bird of the Century co…

learning python

When you are exploring a far off land and only know a tiny bit of the language they speak there, you always carry a little dictionary with commonly used phrases translated…

rowwise %>% mean

When you have data from a survey, the responses for each item are most often listed in different variables. Generally you have to average across the items to get a mean…

error bars on plots

Repurposing this APA figures post as a IDHTG (I don’t have to google) post.

colours that R knows

I have been working through the ggplot R Advent calendar by Kiirsti Owen with some lovely RLadies friends and we got up to Day 15 where we started controlling colours in…

git hints

I am getting pretty good at avoiding git merge conflicts by always remembering to pull before I push when using github. But the terminal in RStudio has been giving me this…

analysing smartwatch data

Sometimes trying to replicate what someone is doing in a blogpost you find on twitter is a great way to learn something new. I am half heartedly thinking about trying to…

using lists in R

One of my goals while on long service leave is to learn some new R things that have been on my radar for a while… the first of these is purrr. The purrr package allows you…

my favourite things about R

I am prepping a talk for R-Ladies Sydney about my favourite R things, including the packages and functions that end up in every script I write.

useful bash commands

I remember working in a cafe in Melbourne with Charles Gray a couple of years ago and watching in awe as she navigated her way around our project files using the terminal…

parameterised penguins

I am beginning a project where we want to create a distill site that has lots of profile pages that all have the same format but pull different data from a dataframe. Here I…

PAT for GitHub

I have been avoiding setting up a Personal Access Token to authenticate my github account for a while because it seemed complicated. Never fear Happy Git with R and usethis()…

my first pull request

There are so many lovely packages for colour palettes (see links at the bottom of this post for more).

cleaning penguins with the janitor package

The janitor package by Sam Firke contains probably my FAVOURITE R function: clean_names().