Tag Archives: R

Wakefield: Random Data Set (Part II)

Posted on April 30, 2015 by tylerrinker

This post is part II of a series detailing the GitHub package, wakefield, for generating random data sets. The First Post (part I) was a test run to gauge user interest. I received positive feedback and some ideas for improvements, … Continue reading →

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Random Data Sets Quickly

Posted on April 25, 2015 by tylerrinker

This post will discuss a recent GitHub package I’m working on, wakefield to generate random data sets. The post is broken into the following sections: Demo 1.1 Random Variable Functions 1.2 Random Data Frames 1.3 Missing Values 1.4 Default Data … Continue reading →

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pacman 0.2.0: Initial CRAN Release

Posted on February 16, 2015 by tylerrinker

We’re please to announce the first CRAN release of pacman v. 0.2.0. pacman is the combined work of Dason Kurkiewicz & Tyler Rinker. pacman is an R package management tool that combines the functionality of base library related functions into intuitively … Continue reading →

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Scheduling R Tasks via Windows Task Scheduler

Posted on February 11, 2015 by tylerrinker

This post will allow you to impress your boss with your strong work ethic by enabling Windows R users to schedule late night tasks.  Picture it, your boss gets an email at 1:30 in the morning with the latest company … Continue reading →

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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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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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