This two-part blog post I published a day ago required key-stats from Yahoo Finance for all the companies in the control group I created for my research. I wanted all the key-stats pulled, arranged in a data-frame and then present them side-...
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Update to Data on Github Post: Solution to an RCurl problem
A reader of my most recent post tried the R code I had written to download the data set of electoral disproportionality from the GitHub repository. However, it didn’t work for them. After entering disproportionality.data <- getURL(url) they go...
Data on GitHub: The easy way to make your data available
GitHub is designed for collaborating on coding projects. Nonetheless, it is also a potentially great resource for researchers to make their data publicly available. Specifically you can use it to:store data in the cloud for future use (for free),track ...
Slidify: Things are coming together fast
Tools for using R/RStudio as a one-stop shop for research and presentation have been coming out quickly. I think this one has a good shot of being included in future releases of RStudio: The other day I ran across a new R package called slidify by Ramn...
knitr, Slideshows, and Dropbox
I just noticed that Markus Gesmann has a nice post on using RStudio, knitr, Pandoc, and Slidy to create slideshows. After my recent attempt to use deck.rb to turn a Markdown/knitr file into a deck.js presentation I caved in and also decided to go with ...
If You are a R Developer, Then You Must Try SAP HANA for Free.
This is a guest blog from Alvaro Tejada Galindo, my colleague and fellow R and SAP HANA enthusiast. I am thankful to Alvaro for coming and posting on "AllThingsR".Are you an R developers? Have ever heard of SAP HANA? Would you like to test&n...
Aspirational & Useful: deck.rb with RStudio/knitr & Go2Shell
There has been some interest in the recent release of RStudio 0.96 and especially the ability to use combine its knitr Markdown functionality with Pandoc to integrate R and a variety of different documents types. I just wanted to add two quick things ...
Dynamic Content with RStudio, Markdown, and Marked.
As Markus Gesmann recently pointed out, the new version of RStudio (0.96) has some really nice features for creating dynamic reports with Yihui Xie’s knitr. You can integrate not just R and LaTeX, but also R and Markdown (as well as some other fo...
Will 2015 be the Beginning of the End for SAS and SPSS?
Learning to use a data analysis tool well takes significant effort, so people tend to continue using the tool they learned in college for much of their careers. As a result, the software used by professors and their students is … Continue reading →
Big Data, R and SAP HANA: Analyze 200 Million Data Points and Later Visualize in HTML5 Using D3 – Part III
Mash-up Airlines Performance Data with Historical Weather Data to Pinpoint Weather Related DelaysFor this exercise, I combined following four separate blogs that I did on BigData, R and SAP HANA. Historical airlines and weather dat...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
