227 search results for "knitr"

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March 27, 2013
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author = "Ben Ogorek"
Twitter = "@baogorek"
email = paste0(sub("@", "", Twitter), "@gmail.com")

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Pretend this is Big Data:

doc1 <- "Stray cats are running all over the place. I see 10 a day!"
doc2 <- "Cats are killers. They...

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Writing a MS-Word document using R (with as little overhead as possible)

March 24, 2013
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Writing a MS-Word document using R (with as little overhead as possible)

The problem: producing a Word (.docx) file of a statistical report created in R, with as little overhead as possible. The solution: combining R+knitr+rmarkdown+pander+pandoc (it is easier than it is spelled). If you get what this post is about, just …

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Production Quality Report with R and knitr on Yen

March 22, 2013
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Sometimes I actually use my experiments for real work.  For example, I wanted to send an update  on the Japanese Yen.  This was a great opportunity to use the chart created in Shading and Points with xtsExtra plot.xts.I was fairly please...

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knitr2wordpress and gradient_cloud Revisited

March 19, 2013
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knitr2wordpress and gradient_cloud Revisited

This post serves three function: It allows me to revisit an old blogpost It let's me test out the new-ish knitr function knti2wp and RWordPress It enables me to avoid the massive ammount of reading I need to do and … Continue reading

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How not to reveal your MySQL DB login/password when sharing code on GitHub or BitBucket?

March 19, 2013
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Solution: use your ~/.my/cnfInside your ~/.my.cnf file define the connection parameters to your databases. For example, here I define two groups called local and toto:user = rootpassword = ultra_secrethost = localhostuser = capitaine_flamp...

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One Pager Performance Report with knitr, R, and a Different Font

March 18, 2013
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Although I suffer from complete ignorance of typography, with a little help from a post from Hyndsight and post from mages' blog, I wanted to try a different font on the one-pager performance report that we created in Onepager Now with knitR. I do not think Open Sans Light is the best choice for this...

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Scholarly metadata in R

March 16, 2013
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Scholarly metadata in R

Scholarly metadata - the meta-information surrounding articles - can be super useful. Although metadata does not contain the full content of articles, it contains a lot of useful information, including title, authors, abstract, URL to the article, etc.

One of the largest sources of metadata is provided via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting or OAI-PMH....

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On ENAR, or Statistical Meetings in General

March 14, 2013
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Last year I accepted an invitation from Ben to go to ENAR 2013 -- my first ENAR. I used to go to JSM and useR!, and apparently I enjoy useR! most. The reason is not, or not only, because I'm more of a technical person. It is just hard to concentrate at large statistical conferences. I want...

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AQP News and Updates

March 12, 2013
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The AQP family of R packages has seen a lot of development over the last 3 months. Some of the highlights include: HTML manual pages with syntax-highlighting and figures, c/o knitr new vignettes: "dealing with bad data", gridded SSURGO (gSSURGO) demo,...

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reports 0.1.2 Released

March 12, 2013
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reports 0.1.2 Released

I’m very pleased to announce the release of reports : An R package to assist in the workflow of writing academic articles and other reports. This is the first CRAN release of reports: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reports/index.html The reports package assists in writing … Continue reading

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