This guide is part of a series on setting up your own private server running shiny apps. There are many guides with great advice on how to set up an R shiny server and related software. I try to make a comprehensive guide based in part on these resourc...

Qualtrics allows users to collect online data through surveys. My R package qualtRics contains convenience functions to pull survey results straight into R using the Qualtrics API instead of having to download survey results manually. Currently, the...

This guide is part of a series on setting up your own private server running shiny apps. There are many guides with great advice on how to set up an R shiny server and related software. I try to make a comprehensive guide based in part on these resourc...

This guide is part of a series on setting up your own private server running shiny apps. There are many guides with great advice on how to set up an R shiny server and related software. I try to make a comprehensive guide based in part on these resourc...

This guide is part of a series on setting up your own private server running shiny apps. There are many guides out there with great advice on how to set up an R shiny server and related software. I try to make a comprehensive guide based in part on the...

Last week, I came across sparklyr. Authored by the folks at rstudio, it allows you to integrate your R workflow (and, more importantly, your dplyr workflow) with apache spark. In one of the examples on the sparklyr home page, the author shows how to se...

Last week, I came across sparklyr. Authored by the folks at rstudio, it allows you to integrate your R workflow (and, more importantly, your dplyr workflow) with apache spark. In one of the examples on the sparklyr home page, the author shows how to se...

TenK is an R package aimed at simplifying the collection of SEC 10-K annual reports. It contains the following features: Robust scraping and parsing of reports using the rvest package Resolves FTP urls to their HTML counterparts, which increases the speed of retrieving the documents and adds a lot of ...

It’s no secret that phone manufacturers log your geolocation at all times, but at least they’re open about it these days. I had no doubts that my Google Nexus 5 phone logged every move I made, and I was interested to see how I could map these geolocations. If ...