Notes on Citing R and R Packages
Who, what, where, when and which
Posts by Year
2024
2023
Ordering constraints in brms using contrast coding
But mostly how contrast matrices are computed
2022
How to score Rock Paper Scissors
Lists are trees
Creating a Summoning Salt-style speedrun plot
Cool 8-bit music plays over a montage of me editing R code
The cursed Morgan Stanley Covid-19 visualization
What went wrong?
Self-documenting plots in ggplot2
Including plotting code as an annotation on a plot
2021
Custom syntax highlighting themes in RMarkdown (and pandoc)
Now you can have Fairy Floss in quarterly-report.docx
A one-liner for generating random participant IDs
Find a match() in your base R library
Keep your R scripts locally sourced
A lesson from debugging source()
Snecko eye lets you play more cards
A simulation study of the mighty Slay the Spire relic
Think of && as a stricter &
A crash course on the ands and ors in R
Random effects and penalized splines are the same thing
Weighted wiggles and smoothed categories
Lists are my secret weapon for reporting stats with knitr
Tidying and splitting model summaries for inline reporting
2020
Q-Q Plots and Worm Plots from Scratch
Less Q Q, more pew pew
Bayes’ theorem in three panels
What looks plausible, what fits, what does both
2019
Another mixed effects model visualization
Creating a diagram to illustrate information borrowing (partial pooling)
ICC Bot comes online
beep boop the intraclass correlation indicates STRONG interrater reliability
Anatomy of a logistic growth curve
It culiminates in a highlighted math equation.
2018
sample_n_of(): a useful helper function
Randomly sampling subsets of data
10 PRINT mazes with ggplot2
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Ridgelines in bayesplot 1.5.0
It’s getting faster. Moving faster now. It’s getting out of hand
Recode values with character subsetting
Wait, what’s wrong with seven ifelse statements?
Using nonstandard evaluation to simulate a register machine
No, not the cha-ching kind of machine
2017
Secret Santa is a graph traversal problem
Making a graph, connecting nodes twice
Simplifying ggplot2 code by doing nothing
The ggplot2 version of multiplying by 1
set_na_where(): a nonstandard evaluation use case
Bottling up magic spells
Slides from my intro to Bayesian regression talk
This time in LaTeX
A tour of the tibble package
The tidyverse version of dataframes
Plotting partial pooling in mixed-effects models
There are a lot of bilabial sounds in that title
New package polypoly (helper functions for orthogonal polynomials)
Plus some growth curve analysis!
I don’t know Fisher’s exact test, but I know Stan
Modeling left-handedness in Stan
Simulating Unown encounter rates in Pokémon Go
The coupon collector’s problem
Repeatedly applying a function
Doing the same thing over and over again
2016
RStanARM basics: visualizing uncertainty in linear regression
Summarizing many, many lines of fit
Slides from my RStanARM tutorial
Trial by 🔥
Custom tag feeds in Jekyll
Creating an RSS feed for R blog posts.
Recent adventures with lazyeval
Some basic uses of nonstandard evaluation.
Fixing APA citations from Pandoc with stringr
That pesky ampersand.
List of useful RStudio addins made by useRs Permalink
Useful Github page alert: Dean Attali has started collecting links to RStudio addins, including the one I made for wrapping text in RMarkdown.
Why is using list() critical for .dots = setNames() uses in dplyr?
Because the functions expect a list of expressions.
2015
Confusion matrix statistics on late talker diagnoses
Posterior predictive values and the like.
Thoughts on implementing TRACE in R
Code doesn’t lie.