I’m very pleased to announce that lime has been released on CRAN. lime is an implementation of the model prediction explanation framework described in “Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier paper. The authors o... [Read more...]

routr is now available on CRAN, and I couldn’t be happier. It’s release marks the completion of an idea that stretches back longer than my attempts to bring network visualization and ggplot2 together (see this post for ref). While my PhD was stil... [Read more...]

Some time ago (last year actually ?) I had a blast developing a feature for ggforce which had been on my mind for far to long than its limited utility warranted. The idea was to showcase the new facetting extension powers I’d added to ggplot2 by... [Read more...]

I’m pleased to announce that fiery has been updated to version 1.0 and is now available on CRAN. As the version bump suggests, this is a rather major update to the package, fixing and improving upon the framework based on my experience with it, as... [Read more...]

I’m very happy to announce that reqres has been released on CRAN. reqres is a new (in R context) approach to working with HTTP messages, that is, the requests you send to a server and the respons it returns. The uunderlying mechanics of a web ser... [Read more...]

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Last summer, just prior to starting as an intern working for Hadley, I published fiery, a flexible webserver framework that I had worked on during the spring. The reason why I developed fiery amids offerings such as shiny, opencpu, and plumbr was that ... [Read more...]

I’m very pleased to announce that my new package tidygraph is now available on CRAN. As the name suggests, tidygraph is an entry into the tidyverse that provides a tidy framework for all things relational (networks/graphs, trees, etc.). tidygraph ... [Read more...]

A while ago (a very long time ago some would say) I showed how I had created my logo using R. In that post I left on the bombshell that I would return and show you how it is possible to add some fancy animation to it. The time to ... [Read more...]

I am absolutely thrilled to announce that ggraph has finally been released on CRAN. ggraph is my most ambitious package to date and its very early genesis has been described in a prior post. If any mention of ggraph is completely new to you, then in s... [Read more...]

This is the third post in my series of ggraph introductions. The first post introduced the concept of layouts, which is simply a specification on how nodes should be placed on a plane. The second explained how to draw nodes using the geom_node_*() fam... [Read more...]

This is the second post in my series of ggraph introductions. The first post introduced the concept of layouts, which is simply a specification on how nodes should be placed on a plane. This post will dive into how the nodes are drawn, once a layout ... [Read more...]

I will soon submit ggraph to CRAN - I swear! But in the meantime I’ve decided to build up anticipation for the great event by publishing a range of blog posts describing the central parts of ggraph: Layouts, Nodes, Edges, and Connections. All of th... [Read more...]

I recently published a bit of self-promotion in the form of an animation based on the new geom_voronoi_tile() and geom_voronoi_segment() functions in ggforce: Selfpromoting fun with geom_voronoi_* in #ggforce #ggplot2 #tweenr pic.twitter.com/CcFCJ8UDyy— Thomas Lin Pedersen (@thomasp85) December 16, 2016 This prompted someone to ... [Read more...]

I am very pleased to announce the first release of the ggforce package. ggforce is a general ggplot2 extension package in the same vein as ggalt with no overarching goal other than to provide additional functionality to the ggplot2 universe. The inc... [Read more...]

I was not always this famous… And with this I mean that a year ago only my colleagues knew I did stuff in R and now I’m reaching a slightly wider audience. Some of this is definitely due to me interning for Hadley Wickham and helping prepare the ne... [Read more...]

I love the work of @beesandbombs and while some of his creations are a poor fit for redoing in R, one of his latest got me wondering how I would recreate it in the venerable statistics language… The gif in question can be seen here (I don’t know ... [Read more...]

After having “succesfully” launched my blog I felt the time had come to create some identity for it (and by extension, me). What better way to do this than create a logo? This thought didn’t suddenly appear in my mind - if you’ve read the ann... [Read more...]

I am pleased to announce the release of curry - a small package I’ve developed as part of improving my meta-programming skills. curry is yet another attempt at providing a native currying/partial application mechanism in R. Other examples of imple... [Read more...]