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R to docx: Comparing R markdown v2 to ReporteRs

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. R to docx: Comparing R markdown v2 to ReporteRs. July 10, 2014. Like many R users, I collaborate with colleagues who prefer docx and pptx file formats. My usual work flow has been to use. Rnw files) to produce a PDF document that I send ’round to my colleagues for review and comment. While. Work is reproducible, PDFs are not the most convenient format for iterative review and comment. 2014 I learned of two methods to create docx files dynamically:. Requires that I use.

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Rmd to docx collaboration superpowers!

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. Rmd to docx collaboration superpowers! July 18, 2015. 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 would like to improve their control of Word styles and document design. I assume the reader has RStudio and MSWord installed but otherwise I try not to skip any details. Why we need Rmd to docx. But R Markdown (v2) has given me collaboration superpowers!

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First steps towards reproducible research

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. First steps towards reproducible research. May 10, 2015. 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 because, as Roger Peng says, “for every ‘X’ we now have ‘Computational X'” (Peng 2013). Kenneth Reinhart and Carmen Rogoff. Anil Potti, formerly of Duke University. We obtain comments...

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Readings on graph design

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. Readings on graph design. January 16, 2015. 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. Creating more effective graphs. Chart House, 2013. C Kostelnick and M. Hassett. Shaping information: The rhetoric of visual conventions. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2003. Pages 473 482, 1998. Warranting repeated readings are the well-known works of Edward Tufte. As Kostel...

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. I’m a part-time con. Sultant and workshop leader in data displays and visual rhetoric, working mainly within the engineering education community. Typically, I work with a client to establish data management protocols and draft preliminary visuals. We discuss what stories emerge and redesign the visuals to better tell those stories. The cycle repeats until our findings are ready to report, present, or publish. R graphics for the absolute beginner. Creating More Effectiv...

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. Within five minutes of meeting you, I’ll have mentioned I’m a Californian, a songwriter, and a guitar player. I am a graduate of California State University, Northridge (1991), and the University of Washington (1993, 1995). Since 2000, I have taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Besides data visualization, I’m also interested in communication and ethics in engineering generally (co-author of the. C) 2016 Richard Layton.

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Fixing one graph at a time

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. Fixing one graph at a time. July 20, 2015. In August 2007,. 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 integrity of the story in the data was compromised nevertheless. Graph as originally shown in Science. From (Fortenberry et al. 2007). Reprinted with permission from AAAS. Of retention rates seems to increase over time because the ...

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Using Rmd to write about using Rmd

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. Using Rmd to write about using Rmd. July 23, 2015. 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 block of pre-formatted code, indent every line of the block by 4 spaces or 1 tab. Just like with code spans, &, , and characters will be escaped automatically. Here I modify just one of them, the suggestion from Karl Broman.

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. Continuing experimenting with the reach package. November 5, 2016. 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. November 2, 2015. Why run MATLAB from R? Using Rmd to write about using Rmd. July 23, 2015. Fixing one graph at a time.

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Short review: 3 books on reproducible research with R

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Visual rhetoric / graph design / R. Short review: 3 books on reproducible research with R. July 22, 2014. 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 data, doing analysis, and creating graphs and tables to explaining and discussing one’s methodology and findings in a report or presentation—is embedded in the work itself. The code and text are. By Yihui Xie,. I recomme...