Some Love for queryBuildR

Somehow I missed queryBuildR when it was released. I strongly recommend checking it out.

This Week’s Widget - shotsignR

Peter Beshai created beautiful d3.js Shooting Signatures to visualize basketball shooting performance. It was definitely love at first sight for me. However, to justify spending time creating an htmlwidget, I needed some inspiration and also a non-basketball use case. Both the inspiration and use case came from a reader.

Unfortunately, this is still very much a work-in-progress. I’m hoping for some additional inspiration/help to finish it up. Also, midway through this project, I realized that this is sort-of a modified streamgraph, so I might circle back to see if I can build on top of Bob Rudis’ excellent streamgraph package.

Installation

This is not on CRAN, so to install we will need some help from devtools::install_github.

devtools::install_github("timelyportfolio/shotsignR")

Examples

# devtools::install_github("timelyportfolio/shotsignR")

library("shotsignR")

# use data from Peter Beshai gist https://gist.github.com/pbeshai/ffd0f9d84b4e8df27db2
test_data <- jsonlite::fromJSON(
  paste0(
    'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/',
    'timelyportfolio/d00488979c22fc4ed900/raw/',
    'a7838e5ea1abe9f0d836e55499bd618efaeae5b7/shotsign.json'
  )
)

shotsign( test_data )

# devtools::install_github("timelyportfolio/shotsignR")

library("shotsignR")

# now let's try the example from @kferris10
library(dplyr)
library(magrittr)
library(ggplot2)

x <- read.table("http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~winner/data/ecophys_rc.dat") %>% 
  setNames(c("location", "treatment", "plant_id", "co2_concentration", "co2_uptake_rate")) %>% 
  group_by(plant_id) %>% 
  mutate(time = 1:n()) %>% 
  ungroup()

x %>% 
  filter(plant_id == 1) %>% 
  qplot(time, co2_uptake_rate, data = ., geom = "line", group = plant_id, 
        colour = co2_concentration, size = co2_concentration)

x %>% 
  filter(plant_id == 1) %>%
  select(time, co2_uptake_rate, co2_concentration, co2_concentration) %>%
  set_colnames(c("x","y","widthValue")) %>%
  mutate(colorValue = widthValue/max(widthValue)) %>%
  {
    shotsign(
      .,
      xdomain = range(.$x),
      ydomain = range(.$y),
      wdomain = range(.$w),
      colordomain = c(0,1)
    )
  }

Thanks

Thanks Peter Beshai for Shooting Signatures.

As always, thanks to

• Ramnath Vaidyanathan and RStudio for htmlwidgets
• all the contributors to R and JavaScript