R Tips

Daily Work

• Reproducible Workflow
  • File Organisation
  • run_all script
• A Git Workflow Walkthrough Series

Tutorial

Stat 545

• Table Lookup
• Tidy your Data
• Split-Apply-Combine
• Character Vectors
  • Good articles on encoding!
  • Regex

Package

• Stat 545
• Hadley book
• Chapter on connecting to other packages
• devtools cheatsheet

Encoding

• Strings subsection of data import chapter in R for Data Science
• Screeds on the Minimum Everyone Needs to Know about encoding
  • The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
  • What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text
• Guide to fixing encoding problems in Ruby
• Encoding in R

Regex

• Stat 545: regex with stringr
• Regex Cheatsheet

ggplot2

• R Graph Catalog
• Mapping German zip codes in R
• Thematic maps with ggplot2

Dependency Tree

• Stat 545

dplyr non-standard evaluation

• set_na_where()
• tidy eval: most common actions
• Non standard evaluation in base r and tidy eval

Diverse

• Tail Recursion
• Practical Data Science – Collection of Papers

Scraping

• Rvest: a laymen’s guide