The osmar-package enables you to retrieve all geographic elements of OpenStreetMap via its API.I.e., you can retrieve a street, river, state-boundary or whatever and use this as a spatial object in R.It's overwhelming thinking of the endless playg...
Here's a function that sources all scripts from an arbitrary github-repository. At the moment the function downloads the whole repo and sources functions kept in a folder named "Functions" - this may be adapted for everyones own purpose.# Script name: ...
If you're interested in analysing your blog's statistics this can easily be done with a web-service like StatCounter (free, only registration needed, quite extensive service) and with R.After implementing the StatCounter script in the html code of a we...
I added the function IPtoXY to theBioBucket-Archives which collects geographic coordinates for IP-addresses.It uses a web-service at http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org// and works with the base R-packages. # System time to collect coordinates of 100 IP-...
..often needed when preparing data for analysis (and usually forgotten until I need it for the next time).With the below code I convert a set of variables to factors - it could be that there are slicker ways to do it (if you know one let me know!) > da...
I keep my blog-reference-functions, snippets, etc., at github and want to source them from there. This can be achieved by utilizing a function (source_https, customized for my purpose HERE). The original function was provided by the R-Blogger Tony Brey...
Try this very simple & illustrative example for creating an animation with the animation package:myfun <- function ( ) { n = ani.options("nmax") x = sample(1:n) ...
..Some time ago I did a word cloud for representing a Google Scholar search result. Tal Galili pointed me at a post by Drew Conway that expanded on the topic of word clouds lacking spatial meaning. In fact the spatial ordering of words in a word cloud ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
