CMEP coding blog

Tools to check for colorblind- and grayscale-friendliness

colorblind

grayscale

tools

It’s much easier to make colorblind-friendly graphs than it used to be; many thoughtful people have developed colorblind-friendly palettes. The site I most frequently see…

Things I’ve learned lately

learning

package development

package manual

pkgdown

quarto books

Over the last several months, I’ve been working on various long-term projects for the Mississippi Sound Estuary Program (MSEP). What I’ve been learning and doing with R has…

Aligning legend items in tmap ‘view’ mode

geospatial data

css

learning

I ran into an issue that was very vexing but ultimately very simple to solve. I had a hard time googling up the simple solution though, so here it is in case it can help…

Things I’ve learned lately, working with spatial data in R

geospatial data

learning

When I set up this blog, I really thought I was going to make a habit of making small posts about the things I was learning and doing. Turns out I really like explaining how…

Mapping follow-up

code

maps

learning

Within 2 days of my first post here, where I struggled with maps and avoided using ggplot2 because I thought I had to turn my raster data into data frames first (thanks…

Mapmaking

code

maps

learning

I have been on a quest to make maps of long-term precipitation averages in the Mississippi Sound Estuary Program’s watershed. I’ve done some mapping using R, but the maps…