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Manipulate Dates with Lubridate

Posted on September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 by admin

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 R and Rtools on Windows

Posted on September 20, 2020September 20, 2020 by admin

Generating boiler-plate code

Posted on March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 by admin

Automating creation of boiler plate code

Installing a R package in linux

Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 by admin

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

Posted on September 2, 2019September 2, 2019 by admin

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

Posted on October 27, 2018October 27, 2018 by admin

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…