Tag: R basics
Easy Emacs To start using R, or almost anything else in Emacs you basically need to know 3 things: 1) How to move in Emacs, meaning understanding what is what and learning a few key commands; 2) What is the configuration file and how to use it and 3) How to use packages to extend Emacs.
Introducción El análisis exploratorio de datos (EDA en inglés, “Exploratory Data Analysis”) es una de las herramientas más útiles en varias áreas de análisis de datos. El concepto de EDA ha sido utilizado popularmente en los últimos años para referirse a los procesos de exploración primaria de un grupo de datos.
This post continues the topic of functions in R. You can see our previous post if you want to understand the basics but it is not strictly necessary. Here we will go into detail about for loops and if statements in R, two key elements of any function. We are going to define a process, map it in a step-by-step approach and wrape it in a function that can repeat it automatically.
Background This is the first post of R with White Dwarf and I decided to start this blog with a basic tutorial. There is already a lot of information in the web about getting started with R. With a simple google search you can easily find info on how to install it, how to use R studio or other text editor, learn about the basic functions and concepts, what is a vector, a data frame, how to use them, etc.
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Emacs as IDE for R
Recently I have seen many posts about which IDE for R people prefer, with minimalists list of options, usually of size 2: R Studio and VS Code. I guess that some people forget, or many don't even know about two of the most powerful text editors that have been helping developers for a few decades.
2024-2-11
My first Golem app
About A few days ago I finished reading the book Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps by Colin Fay, Sebastien Rochette, Vincent Guyader and Cervan Girard. It was an easy read so, I decided to move forward and create my first shiny app with golem. But before doing that I wanted to read some comments or opinions about it and I realized that there is not so much about it outside of the golem team.
2023-9-29
Object Oriented Programming in R: S3
This post is part of the series maps-app.
You can also find the current state of the project under my GitHub repo mapic.
Scope of this post 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 means that we need to map any region of the world with R.
2023-9-13