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Working with web data in R part II - APIs
(If you haven’t read part I, you can find it here.) Alright, this is a long overdue post: back in October, I promised a part II to show how to pull data from the web via an API. Read More…
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Working with web data in R part I - Scraping HTML tables
In this short post, I am going to introduce you to web scraping in R using the rvest package. In another post (part II), I’ll show you maybe the most popular method for pulling data from the web: using a web API. Read More…
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Install R and RStudio on Mac
Watch the YouTube video below to learn how to install R and RStudio on a Mac. Read More…
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Shiny App Test
This is a test that I can successfully embed a Shiny app (in this case a tutorial using the learnr package) in my blog. Read More…
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COVID-19 New York Times plots
The New York Times has produced some really great maps and plots in its efforts to track the coronavirus in the U.S. One plot in particular that caught my attention is the histogram (actually more like a bar plot) of new cases with a 7-day average line overlayed found at the top of this page. Read More…