R Links

1. CRAN now has (more than) 10,000 R packages. Here's how to find the ones you need
   
   
2. Predicting gentrification using longitudinal census data, by Ken Steif
   
   
3. How to plot Sex ratios in all countries from Human Mortality Database using R, by Ilya Kashnitsky
   
   
4. ggraph, an R package to plot graph structured data by, Thomas Lin Pedersen
   
   
5. The R community is great. There is a called ggguitar that allows you to create guitar tablature using ggplot2
   
   
6. Using dplyr syntax to query SQL databases, ht mikefc
   
   
7. If you are familiar with R base for data visualization, you will probably like the cartography package to create really nice maps, by Timothée Giraud. Good vignette here, although I still prefer using ggplot2
   
   
8. Finding the most depressing Radiohead song with R, by Charlie Thompson

credit: Charlie Thompson