Parts of Speech (POS) tagging is a crucial part in natural language processing. It consists of labelling each word in a text document with a certain category like noun, verb, adverb, pronoun, ... . At BNOSAC, we use it on a dayly basis in order to select only nouns before we do ... [Read more...]

2 new R packages were put on CRAN last week by BNOSAC (www.bnosac.be). One package for scheduling R scripts and processes on Windows (taskscheduleR) and Another package for scheduling R scripts and processes on Unix / Linux (cronR) These 2 packages allow you to schedule R processes from R directly. This ... [Read more...]

As part of our data science training initiative, bnosac is also providing a course on computer vision with R & Python which is held in March 9-10 in Leuven, Belgium (subscribe here or have a look at our full training offer here). Part of the course is covering finding blobs, corners, ... [Read more...]

We recently opened up the BelgiumMaps.StatBel package and made it available at https://github.com/bnosac/BelgiumMaps.StatBel. This R package contains maps with administrative boundaries (national, regions, provinces, districts, municipalities, statistical sectors, agglomerations (200m)) of Belgium extracted from Open Data at Statistics Belgium.  The package is a data-only ... [Read more...]

As part of our continuing effort to digitise poetry and to automate new forms of poetry, we released an R package called pattern.nlp, which is available at https://github.com/bnosac/pattern.nlp . It allows R users to do sentiment analysis and Parts of Speech tagging for text written ... [Read more...]

Part of the R course offering of BNOSAC which you can find at http://bnosac.be/images/bnosac/bnosac_courses_r.pdf, we offer several 2-day hands-on courses covering the use of text mining tools for the purpose of data analysis. It covers basic text hand... [Read more...]

Within 2 weeks, our 2-day crash course on Applied spatial modelling with R (April 13-14, 2016) will be given at the University of Leuven, Belgium: https://lstat.kuleuven.be/training/applied-spatial-modelling-with-rYou'll learn during this course the following elements: The sp package to handle spatial data (spatial points, lines, polygons, spatial data frames) ... [Read more...]

With the release of RStudio add-in possibilities, a new area of productivity increase and expected new features for R users has arrived. Thanks to the help of Oliver who has written an RStudio add-in on top of taskscheduleR, scheduling and automating an R script from RStudio is now exactly one ... [Read more...]

If you are working on a Windows computer and want to schedule your R scripts while you are off running, sleeping or having a coffee break, the taskscheduleR package might be what you are looking for.  The taskscheduleR R package is available at https://github.com/jwijffels/taskscheduleR and it ... [Read more...]

Tomorrow, the next RBelgium meeting will be held at the bnosac offices. This is the schedule. Interested? Feel free to join the event. More info: http://www.meetup.com/RBelgium/events/228427510/ • 18h00-18h30: enter & meet other R users • 18h30-19h00: Web scraping with R: live scraping products & prices ... [Read more...]

These are some notes on my current R git work flow, which is quite fluid, and git has enough quirks that I usually forget part of it ! Creating Projects I've used both RStudio and Eclipse.  RStudio seems easier to create a 'project' and add a loca... [Read more...]

I recently wanted to create a ggplot that I could then 'tweak' furthur. This is my solution, to create an .svg file which can be loaded into a suitable application (I prefer Inkscape) and furthur edited / tweaked. # Build an example Plotlibrary(ggplot2... [Read more...]

I use the Open Source photo management Software Digikam (along with other tools such as Gimp and DarkTable).  I obviously need very little encouragement to combine my geeky hobbies, so I quickly tried to interrogate Digikam with R, which is easy, ... [Read more...]

Quick Note: I had an error recently where RStudio nor EGit nor the command line would push my repo to github.  I can't remember the exact error, although after some googling I found this SO answer that solved it git config http.postBuffer 52428800... [Read more...]

A while ago I had the need to produce some posters that included lots of data (scientific style).  Having recently got back into R and learning LaTex I googled for a way to do this using R.  Here's what I found and ended up with, using R, LaT... [Read more...]

A while ago I had the need to produce some posters that included lots of data (scientific style).  Having recently got back into R and learning LaTex I googled for a way to do this using R.  Here's what I found and ended up with, using R, LaT... [Read more...]

My amazing, awesome wife often comes up with the little puzzles for our amazing children, and this one seemed destined to be solved in R. So, using up to 5 coins (1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p) first she asked our kids whether they could make every val... [Read more...]

Quite a while ago my amazing wife asked me if it was possible to find the time of the first goal for the 2006 FIFA World Cup matches.  I was using R at the time and thought it was possible.  Here are the scripts I wrote to scrape the info fro... [Read more...]

I've been meaning to post something about R for a while, but never got started, and now have a pile of things I'd like to post, so it's time to get started. I first started using R during my Master Dissertation where I had to do some stats.  I've ... [Read more...]