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Building my first Shiny application with ggplot

In trying to get a grip on the newly released Shiny library for R I simply rewrote the example from the tutorial to work with ggplot. The code is taken from the Shiny Tutorial.

I did not make any changes to ui.R provided in the tutorial. The rewritten server.R is below.

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iPad: Reading for Research

A number of iPad software apps support reading, reviewing, editing, archiving, and sharing documents. The increasing popularity of the device among students and faculty raises questions about the usefulness of those in the context of research: How to manage bibliographies? How to store and share annotations? How to access online academic journals?

Together with my [...]

Visualizing data with ggplot from Python

Using my rudimentary knowledge of Python, I was interested in exploring the use of rpy2 to eventually be able to bring together spatial data analysis done in Python, with some higher level tools in R – in this case the powerful graphics library ggplot2 to visualize the results.

My setup is Mac OS 10.7.3, Python [...]