We love them, we hate them: RANKINGS!Rankings are an inevitable tool to keep the human rat race going. In this regard I'll pick up my last two posts (HERE & HERE) and have some fun with it by using it to analyse R-Bloggers' web presence. I will use...
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The 50 most used R packages
Ask anyone what makes R a great language, one argument that often comes back is its very active community. Proof is the impressive number of packages contributed by developers from all horizons and backgrounds. The CRAN website alone lists 3,725 p...
A Little Web Scraping Exercise with XML-Package
Some months ago I posted an example of how to get the links of the contributing blogs on the R-Blogger site. I used readLines() and did some string processing using regular expressions.With package XML this can be drastically shortened - see this:# get...
Web-Scraping in R
Web-scraping, or web-crawling, sounds like a seedy activity worthy of an Interpol investigative department. The reality, however, is far less nefarious. Web-scraping is any procedure by which someone extracts data from the internet. Given that it’s possible to get the internet on computers these days; web-scrapping opens an array of interesting possibilities to social-science researchers 
RStudio Development Environment
Compared to many other languages of equal popularity, there are realtively few development environments for R. In fact, the total number of production ready R IDEs could probably be counted on one hand. That deficiency is a small price to pay to use R and if you’re not already accustomed to using IDEs for other
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Data Analysis Training
I'm training some of my colleagues on Big'ish data analysis this week. Here's how I'm running the class. Would love your ideas to make it better. CLASS OBJECTIVES (LEARNING OUTCOMES)After completion of the course, you will be able to:Understand concept...
How-to Extract Text From Multiple Websites with R
I have been meaning to post this slideshow for awhile now. It gives a brief introduction to using R for scraping text from multiple websites. It includes some basic debugging, because R sometimes misses a website.Just click the arrows to change the sli...
Scraping Flora of North America
So Flora of North America is an awesome collection of taxonomic information for plants across the continent. However, the information within is not easily machine readable. So, a little web scraping is called for. rfna is an R package to collect inf...
Scraping table from any web page with R or CloudStat
Scraping table from any web page with R or CloudStat: You need to use the data from internet, but don’t type, you can just extract or scrape them if you know the web URL. Thanks to XML package from R. It provides amazing readHTMLtable() function. For...
R: A Quick Scrape of Top Grossing Films from boxofficemojo.com
Introduction I was looking at a list of the top grossing films of all time (available from boxofficemojo.com) and was wondering what kind of graphs I would come up with if I had that kind of data. I still don’t know what kind of graphs I’d construct other than a simple barplot but figured 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
