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This post was originally posted on Nest Thermostat and R - Creating a Shiny dashboard.If you are an SAP Employee, please follow us on Jam.At the d-shop we're always looking forward to play with the latest technologies...a while the Nest Thermostat is n... [Read more...]

This post was originally posted on Nest Thermostat and R - Creating a Shiny dashboard. If you are an SAP Employee, please follow us on Jam. At the d-shop we're always looking forward to play with the latest technologies...a while the Nest Thermostat is not really "new", we're in ... [Read more...]

A colleague from work, asked me to investigate about Spark and R. So the most obvious thing to was to investigate about SparkR -;)I installed Scala, Hadoop, Spark and SparkR...not sure Hadoop is needed for this...but I wanted to have the full picture -:)Anyway...I came ... [Read more...]

Yep...as I have said many times before, the LED Number application has become my new Hello World...whenever I learn a new programming language I try to build this, because it compromises several language constructs and makes you learn more by trying to... [Read more...]

I just finished reading Bioinformatics with R Cookbook...so here's my review -:)I was excited to read this book, because it's been a while since I read any R book...but...I gotta admit...this is not my kind of book...as I discovered that obviously... [Read more...]

So...as time goes by, I'm getting more proficient with Julia...which is something fairly easy as the learning curve is pretty fast...I decided to load a file with 590,209 records that I got from Freebase...the file in question contains Actors and Actre... [Read more...]

I was really excited when my friend from Packt Publishing send me this book...as I haven't read any R book in a while...but don't get me wrong...the book is not bad...it's just that I expected a little bit more...let me explain a little bit...This ... [Read more...]

I have to admit it...I'm an R junkie...since the first time I started learning R...it has become an addiction to me...I try to solve every problem with R...which is obviously not the best way to go...but my rule of thumb is..."Try with R ... [Read more...]

I love to have fun with R and Twitter...there are a lot of cool things that you can do with it...so I just thought of having a small Twitter Battle application...something that will grab the number of followers and lists from two users...apply some cra... [Read more...]

Some time ago I wrote a post called Twitter unfollowers with R and Rook where I used R and Twitter to get a list of the people that we follow...but that doesn't follow us back...Right now...that post is obsolete as Twitter changed its API to API 1... [Read more...]

As may already know (As I have said this a thousand times) I love R -:) And of course...I love Shiny -;)Today I had the opportunity to read a nice little book called Web Application Development with R using Shiny.This book starts of course with a small... [Read more...]

Since I joined SAP around 2 years ago, I simply stopped using ABAP…even when I use it for almost 11 years when I was a consultant…A week ago, I was thinking about writing a new blog…something nice…some hacky…something that would allow me to just rest and don’... [Read more...]

*DANGER* This is just a silly blog and shouldn't be taken any seriously.*DANGER*Ok...you may wonder...why is Blag writing a silly blog? Well...I'm a Developer Evangelist...and it's my job to keep developers entertained  Also...I have so free time ... [Read more...]

Usually...when I use R...I try to use it with SAP HANA as well...and the most simple way to make them work is for sure an ODBC connection....fast and simple...First, I went to my SAP HANA Studio to get the query...which is basically...get all ... [Read more...]

As you might have discovered by now...I love R...it's just an amazing programming language...By now...I have integrate R and SAP HANA via ODBC and via the SAP HANA-R integration...but I have completely left out the SAP HANA OData capabilities.For this ... [Read more...]

Since I discovered Shiny and published my blog A Shiny example - SAP HANA, R and Shiny I always wanted to actually run a Shiny application from SAP HANA Studio, instead of having to call it from RStudio and having to use an ODBC connection.A couple of ... [Read more...]