R-bloggers

Sobre este post Esta es la segunda parte de las series de cómo crear mapas de cualquier región del mundo con R. De antemano me disculpo por detalles que puedan encontrar en la traducción, el post original lo creé en Inglés y el trabajo de traducció...

Liz recently needed some shapefiles from an ArcGIS online map. Checking out the linked page, it’s immediately clear that there’s a lot of data, and no obvious way to get it from a download or share link anywhere on the app page. The desired solut...

We are excited to announce the yahoofinancer package. The yahoofinancer R package allows the retrieval of nearly all data visible via the Yahoo Finance front-end and aims to reduce the pre-processing steps needed in analyzing such data. yahoofinanc...

Scope of this post This is the second part of the series to create a map of any region of the world with R. We are creating maps of data showing changes over a span of time for different countries and pointing at all kinds of cities. That basically mea...

Spatial data is always tougher to visualize than it seems at first. Well, not anymore. R ggmap is an amazing package you can start using almost instantly, after some light configuration. It won’t take you more than a couple of minutes to configure everything and have your first map ...

RStudio takes up a lot of screen real estate with its panes. I prefer to have two floating windows for script and console, plus help when needed. Unfortunately entering ?pch, for example, opens up a pane and squeezes everything out … Continue reading →

R programming language can read all sorts of data, and XML is no exception. There are many ways to read, parse, and manipulate these markup language files in R, and today we’ll explore two. By the end of the article, you’ll know how to use two R packages ...

A Forecasting API, with examples

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How do I count thee? Let me count the ways? by Jerry Tuttle    In Major League Baseball, a player who hits 50 home runs in a single season has hit a lot of home runs. Suppose I want to count the number of 50 homer seasons by team, and also the number ...

(Photo by Erik Cats) “If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge” is one of my favorite movie quotes (from Darren Aronofsky’s cult movie about mathematics \(\pi\) (“pi”)). In this post we’ll graph the numbers from the Blood Bowl Fantasy...