Utilities Powering the Globe and Mail's Data Journalism Template

Core functions necessary for using The Globe and Mail's R data journalism template, 'startr', along with utilities for day-to-day data journalism tasks, such as reading and writing files, producing graphics and cleaning up datasets.

upstartr

Upstartr is a companion package to The Globe and Mail's data journalism template, startr. It contains a series of functions meant to be consumed by the template project, plus additional helpful functions for day-to-day data journalism.

Installation

install.packages('upstartr')

Or, if you want to run a development version, you can install it from GitHub by doing:

devtools::install_github('globeandmail/upstartr')
library(upstartr)

Reference

You can find the full reference manual for upstartr's functions here.

Credits

Spark plug illustration by Murat Yükselir.

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