Almost everything listed on this page was built for the sake of my own learning. Quality and completeness are variable. No guarantees.
R Packages
Selected packages. All are hosted on GitHub. Many are on my R-universe.
Useful
Made to serve a ‘real’ purpose. Alphabetical.
| {a11ytables} |
Generate best-practice stats spreadsheets for publication |
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| {altcheckr} |
Assess image alternative (alt) text on websites |
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| {backtick} |
Insert backtick structures with an RStudio Addin |
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| {badgr} |
Generate URLs for shields.io metadata badges |
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| {bd2q} |
Helpers to convert a {blogdown} blog to Quarto |
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| {blogsnip} |
RStudio addin to insert Rmd code snippets, especially for {blogdown} |
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| {coloratio} |
Check accessibility of color contrasts |
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| {dehex} |
Learn to assess a colour hex code by eye |
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| {defenestrate} |
Personal helpers wrapping {Microsoft365R} |
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| {dialga} |
Translate R to cron to English |
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| {gdstheme} |
{xaringan} theme and template, (unofficial) Government Digital Service style |
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| {ghdump} |
Download/clone all of a user’s GitHub repositories for archiving purposes |
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| {gpx3d} |
Make an interactive 3D chart of your workout route from a GPX file |
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| {linkrot} |
Detect dead hyperlinks on webpages |
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| {oystr} |
Wrangle Oyster-card data supplied by Transport for London |
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| {pixeltrix} |
Make pixel art interactively in a plot window, get a matrix, make a gif |
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| {quartostamp} |
RStudio Addin to insert (‘stamp’) useful Quarto elements |
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| {r2eng} |
Translate R to English |
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| {snorkel} |
RStudio Addin to help document functions with {roxygen2} |
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| {trapinch} |
Get data from the PokéAPI service |
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| {wordup} |
Word to Govspeak |
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Conceptual
Experiments, games, hacks, memes and subversion. Alphabetical.
| {ActionSquirrel} |
A squirrel game in your R console made with {R6} |
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| {cran} |
Convert volume measurements to units of uncleaned herring |
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| {choosethis} |
Off-label concepts for executing R code from links in the console, using {cli} |
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| {emojiscape} |
Print a little emoji scene to your console |
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| {hokey} |
Tiny game demos with user input via {keypress} |
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| {hiscore} |
A game with a system for saving high scores persistently |
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| {kevinbacran} |
The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon but for CRAN authors |
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| {pico} |
Generate the aboslute minimum R package skeleton |
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| {plunderplot} |
Interactively extract coordinates from an image of a plot |
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| {potato} |
Play ‘Potato’ in the R console, a one-page RPG by Oliver Darkshire |
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| {r.oguelike} |
A tile-based roguelike toy for R’s console, featuring procedural dungeons and enemy pathfinding |
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| {remorse} |
Text to Morse Code to audio |
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| {safar6} |
A playable text-based simulation of Pokémon’s Safari Zone using {R6} |
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| {soccercolleagues} |
Find footballers’ common team mates |
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| {skyphone} |
Fetch and sonify GitHub Skyline contributions data |
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| {tide} |
Edit a data.frame in a spreadsheet-like editor, get code to reproduce it |
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| {tamRgo} |
A persistent cyberpet in your R console |
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| {tidyquiz} |
A {tidyverse} quiz via {learnr} hacking |
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| {tilebased} |
Move a sprite around a procedurally-generated map inside an R graphics window |
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Shiny apps
Hosted
| Animal Crossing Popularity Contest |
Swipe left or right on villagers from Nintendo’s Animal Crossing |
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| LeWitt ReMix |
Remix Sol LeWitt’s art for #RecreationThursday |
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| Randoflag |
A randomised flag challenge for new browser tabs |
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| What’s your Hadley number? |
Find shortest paths to Hadley Wickham in the CRAN authorship graph |
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Shinylive
Serverless. Runs entirely in your browser.
| CRAN deadlines |
See which CRAN packages are at threat of archival |
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| Govspeakify tables |
Convert a pasted table to Govspeak-flavoured Markdown |
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| Little pixel fun zone |
A small interactive pixel-editor toy for the browser |
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Not hosted
You’ll have to download and run them yourself.
| Ages at World Cup 2018 |
You’re really old and sports people are younger than you |
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| Deer-vehicle collisions in Scotland |
Explore open data on deer strikes in Scotland, 2000 to 2017 |
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| Mission Across IOW |
How hard is it to cross the Isle of Wight, UK, in a straight line? |
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| Read a colour hex code |
Test yourself at reading colour hex codes by eye |
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| Tidyquiz |
A {learnr} hack to generate a random {tidyverse} functions quiz |
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Websites
| matt-dray.com |
This website |
Quarto, Netlify |
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| rostrum.blog |
Japes with R: tutorials, ephemera, memes |
Quarto, Netlify |
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| faxcrayon.art |
A gallery of recreations/remixes/original art |
RMarkdown, {bs4cards}, GitHub Pages |
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| Hastings Half maps |
Interactive maps of the Hastings Half-Marathon route |
RMarkdown, {flexdashboard}, GitHub Pages |
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Other
Code-based bric-a-brac. Alphabetical.
| Emojis to SVG |
Script to fetch SoftBank’s 1997 emoji set (the first-ever?) and convert them to SVG format |
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| gamelad |
An RStudio theme to mimic the original GameBoy’s green palette |
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| GitHub Gists |
Snippets of code that solve a small problem and sometimes become blog posts |
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| Hex stickers |
Hexagonal sticker designs, mostly for R packages |
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| londonmapbot |
A social media bot that posts MapBox satellite images, made with {rtoot} and GitHub Actions |
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| Splendid R games |
A list of games made with R |
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| Tidyswirl |
A work-in-progress introduction to the tidyverse created with {swirl} |
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| Try R v4.2 |
Try new features of R version 4.2 in the browser, thanks to Binder |
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