Rmarkdown on Kailas Venkitasubramanian

UI Reproducibility Project

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Summary

Background

Diverse research backgrounds, skills and operational practices make our institute versatile and nimble to address research problems that crosses several domains. But they also enabled research analytical practices to remain fragmented and inefficient.

The Urban Institute data science team recognized the significance of reproducibility in analytical community research practice on two distinct contexts. 1) Operational efficiency via streamlined use and reuse of data, analytical tools and assets 2) developing a culture of transparency and trust that underpins reproducible research whose products become fully replicable and auditable.

Sahyadri - Yet another Rstudio Dark theme

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Presenting Sahyadri - An RStudio theme for Syntax highlighting

Sometimes it isn’t enough to have a hundred dark themes for your text editor.So here’s one I created.

Sahyadri. Sahyadri is a mountain range that runs along the Western coast of peninsular India. The colors of this theme are inspired by monsoon forests, the incredibly diverse flora and fauna, dark undergrowth and misty slopes.

Comparison Slider for figures and images with RICV

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

There is no end to all the magic you can do with R. I come across at least one nifty tool in the web everyday. RICV is one such awesome little visualization package that lets you compare plots using sliders.

Here’s a short introduction of RICV’s magic.

Get set up

Install the package from github and call the libraries you need to create visualizations. ggplot is my viz workhorse. I also call ggthemr because it lets me use the rust theme whose color palettes work nicely with this website theme :).