Manipulate Dates with Lubridate

A quick tutorial on manipulation of dates with Lubridate package in R These are some operations I found handy. Lubridate seriously lubris the dates 😀

Installing a R package in linux

I am a big fan of the linux OS and I run R on my lubuntu system. A problem I observe is with installing packages. A package in windows gets easily installed by the command: This is because Windows just gives programs permission to install whatever they want by default. Linux being a bit stricter,…

Web scraping tutorial via BeautifulSoup

In July, I went to the UseR 2019 conference, while it was not physically possible to attend all the awesome talks, I did write a script in Python + BeautifulSoup that fetches all the presentations from the website. Here is a tutorial that describes how. This script is based on the amazing tutorial by Al…

Setting up TFS and using it via the command line

This post assumes that a repository has already been set up. Download visual studio team explorer from the internet. The file is usually called vs_teamexplorer. Install team explorer Open visual studio. Typically, on the right of the Start Page you will see the Team Explorer. Click Manage Connections and connect to your repository Map the…