UQRUG 9

meeting
tidytuesday
lidr
base
ggplot2
pca
ggfortify
Main: TidyTuesday.
Other topics: Base R, lidr, ggplot2 extensions, ggfortify for PCA.
Published

September 21, 2020

2020-09-21: UQRUG 9

Attendees and problems

Please add your name and the problem you’d like some help with!

  • Stéphane (Library): here to help! But challenged by using an API and turning the XML output into a dataframe…
  • Dwan (CHRC): Enjoying my first day, and learning what the group is about
  • Grace
  • Amelia
  • Mitch

Today’s challenge

Try playing with the latest TidyTuesday dataset: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/master/data/2020/2020-09-15/readme.md

Share your findings and cool visualisations with the group!

Shared resources

Resources shared during the meetup can be listed here

  • Base R gems: https://ihaddadenfodil.com/post/r-base-gems/#
  • ggplot2 extensions: https://exts.ggplot2.tidyverse.org/gallery/
  • Mitch is using the lidR package:
    • Documentation: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/lidR/versions/3.0.3
    • Book: https://jean-romain.github.io/lidRbook/index.html
  • the ggfortify package proved useful for PCA visualisation: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggfortify/vignettes/plot_pca.html