The Tidy Trekker – blog

Making Circular Maps in ggplot

I made a circular map cutout in ggplot and had it printed for my best friend. Let’s talk about how I did that.

Let’s Talk About 2022

Yes. Hi. Hello. It’s been over a year since I’ve blogged. Let’s have a chat about 2022.

Making Waves in ggplot: An Rtistry Tutorial

An Rtistry tutorial in ggplot about making waves in the R programming language.

Thinking Outside The Grid - A “bare bones” intro to Rtistry concepts in R using ggplot.

Recently I’ve discovered the courage to dive into creative coding and generative aRt in R. Something that the R community calls “Rtistry.” My Rtistry journey so far has been an amazing and tranquil expedition into a world that seemed intimidating and scary on the outside but is honestly just a bottomless pit of fun and creativity on the inside.

Where Have I Been?

So, it has been a good five months since I last made a post on The Tidy Trekker. I can assure you that I am alive and kicking!

Making My First Shiny App

This year was the first time that I ever competed in a RStudio Shiny competition by submitting my first ever Shiny app, the TarotreadR.

Tallying “Checkbox” Survey Responses: R Walkthrough

A guide on how to split up comma-separated survey responses in R using the grepl function in base R and various tidyverse packages . A common issue when processing “Checkbox” question types. This guide assumes that you understand how to load data into R, work with vectors, and work with basic control and loop functions.

Making Dull* Dashboards in R (* Without Shiny)

A walkthrough on taking prepared data and creating an interactive dashboard in R without the use of Shiny. The leaflet, flexdashboard, crosstalk, DT, and SummaryWidget packages will be used for this. This guide assumes that you are somewhat familiar with Rmarkdown and knitting markdown code.

How I Became A “Not-Beginner” in R

Some thoughts I have on being a “Not-beginner” (Intermediate) R programmer/Data Scientist.

Apply Family Notebook

An apply() function notebook to explore the different apply functions in Base R

Ordering Months

A guide on ordering month “categories” chronologically and dealing with missing month data on a ggplot using Tidyverse packages and base R constants. This guide assumes that you understand how to load data into R, work with vectors, and are somewhat familiar with subsetting and ggplot2.

I Participated in My First Tidy Tuesday! : Project Recap

I have always “hid in the shadows” with community challenges like this, but I took the leap and participated. Here’s a quick recap…

Setting Intentions

As the fiasco that is the year 2020 comes to an end, I figured I’d set some intentions for the Tidy Trekker site moving forward.