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TidyTuesday: season vignette formats

For the 2022-03-15 #tidytuesday, we're working with data compiled by Robert Flight. The data reflects vignette uploads to the CRAN and Bioconductor.

I wanted to focus on the seasonal nature of uploads, so I used a spiral plot. This was a great opportunity to use the spiralize and ComplexHeatmap packages by Zuguang Gu. I had to rely a lot on the grid functionality to add the title, subtitles, and caption. I found these posts by particularly helpful.

Graphic showing 7-day rolling averages of number of uploads using either RMarkdown or Sweave to style vignettes.
Most R developers upload vignettes on a six-month cycle.

Note: I used the zoo package to calculate the 7-day rolling averages.

All code is available at github