HighlandR

At the NHS_R conference back in October, I showed a few ways of building animations using gifski - I also wrote up the method I used in an earlier post right here. And, the source code for all this stuff is available from my github here. However -... [Read More]

Twins on the up

Posted on December 13, 2018

Are multiple births on the increase? My twin boys turned 5 years old today. Wow, time flies. Life is never dull, because twins are still seen as something of a novelty, so wherever we go, we find ourselves in conversation with strangers, who are intrigued by the whole thing.... [Read More]

Automatic (slides) for the people

Posted on November 30, 2018

Creating and saving multiple plots to Powerpoint At the NHS R conference we delivered a session on animating patient flow. This started with a single plot showing all patient movements, and then I demonstrated the ability to create a faceted plot. But, with many different areas, and a small... [Read More]

Thoughts on the NHS-R conference

Posted on October 31, 2018

It’s been a few weeks since the first NHS-R conference was held in Birmingham. I co-presented a couple of workshops with Neil Pettinger on visualising patient flow, covering the following importing from Excel (and connecting to SQL Server) dplyr ggplot2 & plotly ... [Read More]

Where am I?

Notes on the here package

Posted on September 23, 2018

The here package is pretty simple ( only 3 functions), but I keep messing things up when I try to create paths with it, so this is my aide-memoire. It might be useful for others too. Here finds the root of your current folder / working directory. If you use... [Read More]

Mid Table Mediocrity

Visualising potential winners in the Scottish Championship

Posted on August 11, 2018

Last August, I was given a surprise gift of a season ticket to watch my local football team, Inverness Caledonian Thistle. They’d been relegated from the top league in Scotland the season before, and needed all the local support they could get. In truth, the gift ( from my father)... [Read More]

More tidy evaluation with ggplot2

Following up the follow up

Posted on July 4, 2018

After my previous post, my good friend David Henderson asked a good question on Twitter ( it happens :)) To be honest, I hadn’t even noticed there was no tilde (the ‘~’ ) in my call to facet_wrap. So I did a little experiment :... [Read More]

Tidily evaluated ggplot2

Test driving the new release of ggplot2

Posted on July 4, 2018

A new release of ggplot2 Now that tidy evaluation is baked into ggplot2, as of TODAY, let’s take it for a spin: ggplot2 3.0.0 %>% create function %>% test function %>% end library(dplyr) library(ggplot2<span... [Read More]

Even Simpler SQL

Posted on June 3, 2018

I’ve had some feedback on the last post, and rather than repeat the same thing multiple times, I’m going all @drob, and writing this instead.. When I tweeted out the link to my post I gave it the tag line “why I’d rather write dplyr than SQL”. What I... [Read More]

simpler SQL with dplyr

comparing dplyr with SQL nested queries

Posted on June 1, 2018

Following on from my last post, where I demonstrated R to some first time R users, I want to do a wee comparison of dplyr V SQL, so that folks, particularly those in the NHS who might be R curious, can see just what the fuss is about. To... [Read More]