Harvard University is providing seven free online courses in data science, each running for eight to nine weeks and requiring ...

The ggplot2 package is powerful and almost endlessly customizable, but sometimes small tweaks can be a challenge. The ggtext package aims to simplify styling text on your visualizations. In this ...

One of the most appealing things about R is its ability to create data visualizations with just a couple of lines of code. [This story is part of Computerworld’s “Beginner’s guide to R.” You’ll find ...

For everything from styling text and customizing color palettes to creating your own geoms, these ggplot2 add-ons deserve a place in your R data visualization toolkit. Plus, a bonus list of packages ...

The following is from a hands-on session I led at the recent Computer Assisted Reporting conference. There’s a lot of activity going on with R packages now because of a new R development package ...