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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 [...]

Great circles on a recentered worldmap, in ggplot

Even though several examples of great circle visualizations exist by now, I had not seen the code of one made with ggplot2. Both solutions offered, here using plot and here using lattice, basically loop through the great circle lines ordered from low to high number of flights and overplot the lines with fewer counts, which [...]