All posts by Ari Lamstein
choroplethrZip v1.3.0: easier demographics, national maps
Introduction choroplethr v3.0 is now available on github. You can get it by typing # install.packages(“devtools”) library(devtools) install_github(‘arilamstein/[email protected]’) Version 1.3.0 has two new features: Data frame df_zip_demographics contains eight demographic statistics about each ZIP Code Tabulated Area (ZCTA) in the US. Data comes from the 2013 5-year American Community Survey (ACS). Function ?get_zip_demographics will return […]
Continue readingAdvice to JETs on Learning Japanese
I recently spoke to an outbound JET and was reminded of my own experience on the program (Mie-ken, 2000-2002). I gave him some tips on learning the language and then realized that my advice might be useful to other JETs as well. I hope that by publishing this advice I can help participants on the […]
Continue readingchoroplethr v3.0.0 is now on CRAN
Today I am happy to announce that version 3.0.0 of my R mapping package choroplethr is now available from CRAN. To get it, you can simply type: install.packages(“choroplethr”) from an R console. If you don’t know what any of this means then I recommend taking Coursera’s excellent R Programming class 🙂 The most notable change in […]
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