XKCD “Curve Fitting”, in R

This article is originally published at http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/

You probably saw this XKCD last week, which brought a grimace of recognition to statisticians everywhere:

It's so realistic, that Barry Rowlingson was able to reproduce all but two of the "charts" above with a simple R function (and a little help from the xkcd ggplot2 theme):

And now for @revodavid et al, with the xkcd package and font! (still two more to do...) pic.twitter.com/3aVHis23Gl

— Barry Rowlingson (@geospacedman) September 21, 2018

You can find the R code behind Barry's reproductions here, and I'm sure he'd welcome contributions for the remaining two charts :). 

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