Two members of the RugBcn  have developed a package for R that ease the path for webscraping . Among the current packages, we highlight the well known RCurl and XML packages. Both are enough for most situations, but they have a limitation dealing with situations where there is some javascript between ... [Read more...]

The “IV Jornadas de usuarios de R”  were held in Barcelona on November 15th and 16th of 2012. From the Barcelona’s Users Group (RugBcn) we want to highlight two workshops given by some of the RugBcn’s organizers : Ggplot2 and ggmaps by Lluís Ramon, Andreu Valls and Roger Borrà... [Read more...]