Web scraping with rvest is easy and, surprisingly, comes in handy in situations that you may not have thought of. For example, one of the unique things about academics is the constant need to stay “ahead of the curve,” meaning being nimble enough as a program to shift curriculum around ...

Using a ggplot image can make a boring, mundane plot in RStudio truly pop off of the page. While doing so may seem exceedingly difficult, I promise you that it is not. In my case, I am a big Pittsburgh Pirates fan and I wanted to throw together a graph ...

I will be honest: this example is a little “backward” because I am graphing every pitch faced by a batter over the course of a segmented season. However, the general coding remains the same: you would simply replace the batter’s name with the pitcher’s name you want to ...