Publications by data_steve
Get Data – Safe, Easy, and Free
googleformr Genesis googleformr came out of a persistent series of questions: How to collect data remotely? And do it programmatically with R? And safely, easily, and free? Google seemed like an obvious choice. So gmail it? Save it as a spreadsheet and then email it? Aggregation is really an issue here. Or do the public Google Sheets? or private ...
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Porting Medium to Jekyll Github.io with R
[this transition post is a copy from my Medium account for your comparison.] I’m porting my Medium blog to host on Github using Jekyll at data-steve.github.io. I decided to do it with code and make a package out of it in case others might want to. Reasons Only after setting up the Medium blog did I realize that it doesn’t meet R-bloggers need...
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googleformr on CRAN
As I said in my last post, googleformr came out of a persistent series of questions: How to collect data remotely? And do it programmatically with R? And safely, easily, and free? Well, now googleformr is up on CRAN. Google Form niceties After getting googleformr on CRAN, I had intended to extend googleformr with some data visualization functio...
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googleformr asks – why R u open-source?
googleformr is a CRAN package for collecting data programmatically via Google Forms. For collecting data online through user submissions, Google Forms can be a very convenient way to maintain a lot of control. Trying to use Google Sheets or public folders on Dropbox either requires maintain a lot of credentialling, sharing your keys, or giving us...
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Let pacman Eat Up library and require
One of the packages I use all the time now in my interactive R sessions is pacman. It’s more than just a nicer way to load packages, it’s a great way to explore packages, functions, package libraries, versioning, etc. Grab it off cran with install.packages("pacman"). Out of the box, the function I use every day in all my scripts or at the con...
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Let pacman Eat Up library and require
One of the packages I use all the time now in my interactive R sessions is pacman. It’s more than just a nicer way to load packages, it’s a great way to explore packages, functions, package libraries, versioning, etc. Grab it off cran with install.packages("pacman"). Out of the box, the function I use every day in all my scripts or at the con...
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R pkg Easter Eggs — Revenge of Pacman!
In my last post, I praised the virtues of pacman. I also wanted to indulge of one of the main benefits of working with one of pacman’s devs: Tyler Rinker. Tyler is a geek’s geek, in the best possible way. And one of the best officemates one could ask for to boot! As evidence of that, I thought I’d share a bit of the R-dev goodness that Tyle...
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R pkg Easter Eggs — Revenge of Pacman!
In my last post, I praised the virtues of pacman. I also wanted to indulge of one of the main benefits of working with one of pacman’s devs: Tyler Rinker. Tyler is a geek’s geek, in the best possible way. And one of the best officemates one could ask for to boot! As evidence of that, I thought I’d share a bit of the R-dev goodness that Tyle...
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d3/R Chord Diagram of White House Petition Data
The OpenData movement has the White House producing and releasing some novel datasets. One of them is the We The People petition site. I learned about this from Proofreader.com’s interesting python work using that data. From the petition site, you can see an interesting gallery of work done in different language and for different media/platfor...
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d3/R Chord Diagram of White House Petition Data
The OpenData movement has the White House producing and releasing some novel datasets. One of them is the We The People petition site. I learned about this from Proofreader.com’s interesting python work using that data. From the petition site, you can see an interesting gallery of work done in different language and for different media/platfor...
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