Functions of the Week

See the syllabus for information about the Functions of the Week, as well as links to presentations from previous years.

Below are links to functions of the week presentations.

Date Title Description
1/8/26 package::function (template file) Very brief description of function
2/5/26 stringr::str_to_camel()|str_to_snake()|str_to_kebab() changes chosen string via capitalization, ’_’ and ‘-’
2/5/26 patchwork::patchwork A package for arranging/aligning plots
2/5/26 ggrain::geom_rain() Create rain plots with ggplot
2/12/26 ggalluvial::geom_flow geom_flow is a function within the R package ggalluvial. This function plots the ‘flow’ between different categories across time points/stages, the thickness of the flow represents the frequency of proportion
2/12/26 cowplot::draw_plot Draw images onto plots
2/12/26 GWalkR::gwalkr An Introduction to an Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis Tool
2/19/26 ggplot::geom_pointrange and ggplot::geom_crossbar Add point ranges and cross bars to plots
2/19/26 beepr::beepr beepR
2/19/26 dplyr::sample_n() & dplyr::sample_frac() Randomly selecting a number of rows, or a proportion of rows, from a data set.
2/19/26 gt():: opt_interactive Interactive Tables in HTML outputs, inclding pagination, sorting, and searching
2/26/26 plotly::ggplotly() Converting ggplot2 plots into interactive Plotly visualizations
3/5/26 lubridate::ceiling_date, lubridate::floor_date, lubridate::round_date Rounding dates and time object to a specified unit of time
3/5/26 lubridate::as_datetime(), as_date(), as_hms() Coercing NAMCS data into date, date-time, and time objects
3/5/26 details::details Collapsible sections in quarto
3/12/26 closeread Scrollytelling extension for Quarto
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