Month: November 2018

This is just a quick post to show some of the stuff that I’ve published/ presented/ put on GitHub recently.

So my Shiny book, Web Application Development with R using Shiny, 3rd edition, is out, and I’ve forked the code from the publisher’s repository onto my own GitHub to make it easier to find.

And I’ve got another book about Shiny out which is all about UI development with Shiny, and I’ve forked the code from that onto my GitHub, too

I’ve also put the talk I did about text processing at the Nottingham useR onto my GitHub as well.

Find the Shiny book code here.
The UI development book is here.
And the tidy text talk here.

Don’t judge me, but I do spend quite a lot of time making stacked barcharts of survey data. I’m trying to go full tidyverse (see this blog, passim) and there is a very neat way of doing it in the tidyverse which is very easy to expand out into functions, or purrr, or whatever. Of course, me being me I can never remember what it is so I end up reading the same SO answers over and over again.

So here, for all time, and mainly for my benefit, is the code to take a dataframe with the same Likert items over and over (in this case, Always/ Usually/ Sometimes/ Never) and find the proportions, change to percentages, make the x axis labels at an angle so they fit, put the stacking in the right order, and remove missing values. It’s pretty much completely generic, just give it a dataframe and the factor levels and it will work with any dataset of lots of repeated Likert items.

theData %>% 
  gather() %>% 
  group_by(key) %>% 
  count(value) %>%
  filter(!is.na(value)) %>% 
  mutate(prop = prop.table(n) * 100) %>%
  mutate(value = factor(value, levels = c("Always", "Usually", "Sometimes", "Never"), 
                        labels = c("Always", "Usually", "Sometimes", "Never"))) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = key, y = prop, fill = value, order = -as.numeric(prop))) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity") + 
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, vjust = 1, hjust = 1))

Et voila!