Yearly Archives: 2014

Visualizing APA 6 Citations: qdapRegex 0.2.0 & qdapTools 1.1.0

Posted on December 24, 2014 by tylerrinker

qdapRegex 0.2.0 & qdapTools 1.1.0 have been released to CRAN.  This post will provide some of the packages’ updates/features and provide an integrate demonstration of extracting and viewing in-text APA 6 style citations from an MS Word (.docx) document. qdapRegex … Continue reading →

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LRA 2014- Communication Nomads: Blogging to Reclaim Our Academic Birthright

Posted on December 4, 2014 by tylerrinker

I have been asked to speak at the 2014 LRA Conference on the topic of Academic Blogging. Time: 1:15-2:15 Location: Islands Ballroom Salon B – Lobby Level My Slides: http://clari.buffalo.edu/blog My Précis: http://clari.buffalo.edu/blog/materials/precis.pdf The talk is part of a larger … Continue reading →

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GTrendsR package to Explore Google trending for Field Dependent Terms

Posted on November 24, 2014 by tylerrinker

My friend, Steve Simpson, introduced me to Philippe Massicotte and Dirk Eddelbuettel’s GTrendsR GitHub package this week. It’s a pretty nifty wrapper to the Google Trends API that enables one to search phrase trends over time. The trend indices that … Continue reading →

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rmarkdown: Alter Action Depending on Document

Posted on November 18, 2014 by tylerrinker

Can I see a show of hands for those who love rmarkdown? Yeah me too. One nifty feature is the ability to specify various document prettifications in the YAML of a .Rmd document and then use: The Problem Have you … Continue reading →

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Exploration of Letter Make Up of English Words

Posted on October 31, 2014 by tylerrinker

This blog post will do a quick exploration of the grapheme make up of words in the English. Specifically we will use R and the qdap package to answer 3 questions: What is the distribution of word lengths (number of … Continue reading →

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Canned Regular Expressions: qdapRegex 0.1.2 on CRAN

Posted on September 27, 2014 by tylerrinker

We’re pleased to announce first CRAN release of qdapRegex! You can read about qdapRegex or skip right to the examples. qdapRegex is a collection of regular expression tools associated with the qdap package that may be useful outside of the context … Continue reading →

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Spell Checker for R…qdap::check_spelling

Posted on September 4, 2014 by tylerrinker

I often have had requests for a spell checker for R character vectors. The utils::aspell function can be used to check spelling but many Windows users have reported difficulty with the function. I came across an article on spelling in … Continue reading →

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Hijacking R Functions: Changing Default Arguments

Posted on August 19, 2014 by tylerrinker

I am working on a package to collect common regular expressions into a canned collection that users can easily use without having to know regexes. The package, qdapRegex, has a bunch of functions in the form of rm_xxx. The only … Continue reading →

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qdap 2.1.1 Released

Posted on August 3, 2014 by tylerrinker

We’re very pleased to announce the release of qdap 2.1.1 What is qdap? qdap (Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package) is an R package designed to assist in quantitative discourse analysis. The package stands as a bridge between qualitative transcripts of dialogue … Continue reading →

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What Would Cohen Have Titled “The Earth is Round (p < .05)" in 2014?

Posted on June 25, 2014 by tylerrinker

The area of bibliometrics is not my area of expertise but is still of interest as a researcher. I sometimes think about how Google has impacted the way we title articles. Gone are the days of witty, snappy titles. Title … Continue reading →

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