Me too! But I often found myself stuck in how a given library constrains my thinking and having something from a completely different tech was a nice way to free myself fro that

heart rate plot: shows hear rate levels as a line chart within the last 4 hours

Garmin's sleep stages bar chart. shows length of sleep stages across a week on a stacked bar chart

stress plot: shows stress levels as a bar chart within the last 4 hours

Garmin training readiness plot as a gauge plot

I got a Garmin watch recently and went a rabbit hole trying to recreate its data viz in ggplot. It's so different from making regular report/dashboard plots!
Recreating things made with other technologies is a great way to learn!

Link: mic-wypych.github.io/posts/garmin...

#ggplot2 #dataviz #rstats

Got my first garmin and I'm fascinated by the #dataviz aspect of it. It never occured to me before how to fit an entire interactive plot on an 40mm display! I am 100% going to try and recreate that in #rstats

Thanks!

Thank You! :)

a round plot showing number of different types of roundabouts in each country. Countries are grouped by continent. Unsurprisingly USA has the most roundabouts

#Tidytuesday about roundabouts so I had to make a round plot. I tried to squeeze 3 plots in one.

I didn't expect this dataset to be this fun!

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

There are whole threads on SO tha have been going for over 12 YEARS and the conclusion still seems to be "hum really loudly ans hope the problem disappears"...

Why does writing R packages so often feel like performing some arcane rituals just to appease the cruel r cmd gods?

If I got a dollar for every "no visible binding to global variable" or every hacky function to attach package suggested in dependencies...

#rstats

Getting to learn new stuff!

Does anyone know of good extensions foe editing excel files that work in #positron? I tried excel viewer but it shows those weird notifications from wijmo.

I'm trying to convince my colleagues to give it a try (they currently use Rstudio) and that would be a great thing for them.

#rstats

But then you get to write a new paper "we did the same thing as before but PERSON CENTERED"

This is super nice when you are the only person in the team/lab who cares (be it about well founded causal inference, good stats, accesible dataviz or anything else). It can be pretty daunting and overwhelming to tackle these things alone!

I joined twitter fairly late (around 2020-2021) and I wasn't really active bu the great part was I could learn a ton just by following people. I still have some threads bookmarked and come back to them! I also loved that I could see there are people who care, are real experts and are very weloming

Of course made a typo in hashtag, #positron

This happens specifically after update check in Positron.

If I close & open Positron everything works at first but it keeps checking for updates and asking to restart which is when extensions break. Restarting does not fix anything

Anyone had a similar issue after the latest positron update?

I updated positron to the latest version and keep getting issues with extensions: "Some extensions are disabled due to version incompatibility". The extensions affected are e.g. Air so I guess they should be working?

#rstats #postrion

formr - an online survey framework with live feedback formr survey framework. chain simple surveys into long runs, use the power of R to generate pretty feedback and complex designs

There's also formr which is free and integrates nicely with R. You'd probably need to set up your own instance because their servers are already full bit they give detailed instructions: formr.org

A plot showing eurobasket teams that made it to final four or won a title on plot styled as a basketbal lcourt

Basketball #tidytuesday

Adventures in {grid} part 2, tried to make a basketball court.

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

#rstats | #dataviz | #ggplot2

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

A combination of heatmap and stacked bar chart showing share of men & women chess players across games played and ranking in september 2025. Data from FIDE

only a week late to #Tidytuesday!

I started learning {grid} and while it's great its. so. many. iterations. One thing I learned so far: always draw by hand before coding!

#rstats | #dataviz | #ggplot2

Large Language Models based on historical text could offer informative tools for behavioral science | PNAS Large Language Models based on historical text could offer informative tools for behavioral science

But now you can administer your GAD-7 to Julius Caesar!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#tidytuesday

I looked at most active frog spotters and made a hopping cumulative plot.

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Moving to Mac has NOT been fun so far

I just won a very unfair battle with {renv} and I'm really proud.
Only had to reinstall R, add 4 system level dependencies and a few other things along the way...
#rstats

Thanks, this is so nice of you! I already returned my copy and ordered a new one which is on its way to me 🙂

Thanks! 🙂 That's exactly what I did, the second book is already on its way. Hope it's twice the charm this time.

Thanks! Eventually I just returned my copy and ordered a new one.

Thanks! I hope they might better convey the message

I feel you :( I just got a different CRC book and it came B&W too.

A plot showing gini coefficient in Poland from 1986 to 2023 and major events from Polish history from that period. Gini (tax adjusted) was generally around .3. The plot is red and black, in style inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois

Another #tidytuesday.

I looked at inequality data for Poland from 1986 to 2023.
This one was largely inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois.

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

I love {ggforce} and the myriad options it opens.

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2