2016-01 OpenAPI version 0.3
The OpenAPI project aims to help people connect with data. OpenAPI is a software architecture for wrapping component pieces of data analysis – datasets, programming …
2015-07 Recording and Replaying the Graphics Engine Display List
In the development version of R (to be R 3.3.0), it is possible again to save the result of recordPlot() from one R session and …
2015-06 A ‘safemode’ Package for R
The ‘safemode’ package provides a safemode() function that creates a “safe mode” session in R. In “safe mode”, all symbols have an “age” (a last-modified …
2015-05 Generating SVG for Web Pages with the gridSVG Package
This document describes several different techniques for including SVG images within a web page and points out the important SVG attributes that control the final …
2015-04 Helping people to connect with data
This articles explores the problem of helping people connect with data. In the first section I examine the importance of connecting people with data, and …
2015-03 Uncertainty Evaluation of Computer Simulation Models (Draft Report)
Deterministic agricultural and agro-ecosystem systems models have an important role worldwide. Although these models are mathematically deterministic, there are many possible sources of uncertainty that …
2015-02 New Zealand’s Climate Data in R – An Introduction to clifro
The National Climate Database contains data collected from around 6,500 weather stations throughout New Zealand, providing a necessary repository for any study involving New Zealand’s …
2015-01 Introducing OpenAPI
The OpenAPI project attempts to make it easier to connect people with data. This document discusses some of the challenges faced in connecting people with …
2014-03 The gridGraphics Package
The gridGraphics package provides a function, grid.echo(), that can be used to convert a plot drawn with the graphics package to the same result drawn …
2014-02 Invertible Reproducible Documents
Reproducible documents provide an efficient way to produce reports by automatically generating content from code chunks within the report. The processing of a source document, …