Category Archives: Fav R Packages

How to install and use the hexSticker package

Posted on April 4, 2017 by

Intro A couple of days ago, the hexSticker package was published on CRAN. The package provides some functions to plot hexagon stickers that may be used to promote R packages. As described on GitHub, the stickers can be plotted either … Continue reading →

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My first R package: streetsofle

Posted on February 28, 2017 by

Intro A couple of days ago I published my first R package on GitHub. I’ve named the package streetsofle standing for streets of Leipzig because it includes a data set containing the street directory of the German city of Leipzig. … Continue reading →

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How to install the ‘RWordPress’ package in R

Posted on March 31, 2016 by

The RWordPress package is a very convenient tool for publishing blog posts from R to WordPress. In his blog post Publish blog posts from R + knitr to WordPress, Yihui Xie explains how to install and use the package. Furthermore, … Continue reading →

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