R-bloggers

Learn how to do web scraping in R by using the rvest package to scrape data about the weather in this free R web scraping tutorial. The post Tutorial: Web Scraping in R with rvest appeared first on Dataquest.

By Rachael Dempsey, Senior Enterprise Advocate at RStudio / Greater Boston useR Organizer Last month, the Boston useR Group held our very first virtual meetup and opened this up to... The post Hosting a Virtual useR Meetup appeared first on R Consortium.

A few times in this series, I've wanted to display part of a dataset, such as key variables, like Title, Rating, and Pages. The tidyverse allows you to easily keep or drop variables, either temporarily or permanently, with the select function. For inst...

This post was written in collaboration with Almog Simchon (@almogsi) and Shachar Hochman (@HochmanShachar). Go follow them. The fictional simplicity of Generalized Linear Models Who doesn’t love GLMs? The ingenious idea of taking a response level variable (e.g. binary or count) and getting some link function magic to ...

I’m one of the few people that actually still has – and uses – a Last.fm account. I say still, I’m one of the few who ever had one. I’ve been playing around with some APIs for the first time lately and thought I’d check out the ...

In this post, We’ll learn how to take analyse your Android Smartphone usage data. Steps: Download your MyActivity Data from Google Takeout - https://takeout.google.com/ (after Selecting json format - instead of the default html format) When the download is available, save the zip file and unzip ...

Bayesian statistics is centered on constructing certain assumptions about how the probability of an event is distributed, and then adjusting that belief as new information comes in. It can be more involved to construct a Bayesian model as opposed to the “look at many things in aggregate” approach used in ...

As an economist without formal training in epidemiology I have done my best to leave the modelling up to the experts. But, the world as shut down around me and my life is suddenly so much more complicated and I have to wonder, is this COVID thing as dangerous as ...

The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC from now on) has setup two new public surveillance resources for COVID-19. Together, COVIDView and COVID-NET provide similar weekly surveillance data as FluView does for influenza-like illnesses (ILI). The COVIDView resources are HTML tables (O_O) and, while the COVID-NET interface provides ...

Learn how to schedule robust data extraction with Cron and Docker containers. The schema of the public live data set on Google Big Query we are going to extractThis article was also published on https://www.r-bloggers.com/. This is part two of a multi article series on building and ...

Today, we'll start digging into the wonderful world of joins! The tidyverse offers several different types of joins between two datasets, X and Y: left_join - keeps all rows from X and adds columns from Y to any that match cases in X; if there is no matching record ...

Today I’m revisiting an older blog post on our package lconnect, which is available in CRAN (here). If you want to learn about the available connectivity metrics check this post. It is intended to be a very simple approach to derive landscape connectivity metrics. Many of these metrics come ...