External Graphics with knitr

Adding images with {knitr} is straightforward; we simply use include_graphics(). However, it is easy to add an image that is too large, or has the wrong dimensions. This post tells you what to watch out for, and how to optimise your images for the web.

Selecting the correct image file type

When including graphics within a markdown document, it's crucial to use the correct file type from generating graphics. However, there isn't one size fits all, instead, we should choose what's most appropriate for the image.

Image sizes in an R markdown Document

Setting the correct images sizes in an R markdown document, can be tricky. There are a number of different arguments that all interact with each other. In this post, we look at how we should create the correct image sizes using {knitr}.

Writing a Personal R Package

"If you've been using R for a while, you've likely accumulated a hodgepodge of useful code along the way. While you might be tempted to keep the code in a set of disparate file, this quickly becomes unmaintainable. Instead, you should consider placing the code in a personal R package."

Jumping Rivers and WhyR partnership

We love supporting the community around the open source tools that we use on a daily basis. In the past, Jumping Rivers has helped useR user groups and SatRdays events to happen by enabling frictionless sponsorship for European groups. We believe that it is our duty to help grow the community that helps us.

Free Workshops

For the last few years we’ve offered automatic sponsorship for meet-ups and satRday events. However for obvious COVID related reasons, most (all?) meet-ups have meeting getting together virtually, so the need for extra Pizza money has diminished. As with most organisations, we’ve had to adapted to the new online-first environment.