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How to Extract Citation from a Body of Text

March 26, 2012 | Kay Cichini

Say, you have a text and you want to retrieve the cited names and years of publication. You wouldn't want to this by hand, wouldn't you?Try the following approach:(the text sample comes from THIS freely available publication)library(stringr)(txt

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Do we appreciate sunbathing in Spring ?

March 22, 2012 | arthur charpentier

We are currently experiencing an extremely hot month in Montréal (and more generally in North America). Looking at people having a beer, and starting the first barbecue of the year, I was wondering: if we asked people if global warming was a good ... [Read more...]

Weecology can has new mammal dataset

December 29, 2011 | Scott Chamberlain

So the Weecology folks have published a large dataset on mammal communities in a data paper in Ecology. I know nothing about mammal communities, but that doesn't mean one can't play with the data...Their dataset consists of five csv files: &...

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Some Simple but Propably Useful Regex Examples with R-Package stringr…

November 3, 2011 | Kay Cichini

I found that examples for the use of regex in R are rather rare. Thus, I will provide some examples from my own learning materials - mostly stolen from the help pages, with small but maybe illustrative adaptions.ps: I will extent this list of examples...

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Web Scraping Google Scholar & Show Result as Word Cloud Using R

November 1, 2011 | Kay Cichini

OUTDATED! Please see the update HERE!...When reading Scott Chemberlain's last post about web-scraping I felt it was time to pick up and complete an idea that I was brooding over for some time now:When a scientist aims out for a new project the firs...

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Analysis of retractions in PubMed

November 30, 2010 | nsaunders

As so often happens these days, a brief post at FriendFeed got me thinking about data analysis. Entitled “So how many retractions are there every year, anyway?”, the post links to this article at Retraction Watch. It discusses ways to estimate the number of retractions and in particular, a recent ... [Read more...]

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How to Extract Citation from a Body of Text

Do we appreciate sunbathing in Spring ?

Weecology can has new mammal dataset

Some Simple but Propably Useful Regex Examples with R-Package stringr…

Web Scraping Google Scholar & Show Result as Word Cloud Using R

Analysis of retractions in PubMed

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