I use R to fix subtitles that are not in sync with my movies. For the example below the subs were showing too early - so I added some time to each sequence in the srt file. For simplicity I used exactly 1 second in the below example.You'll see that ... [Read more...]

Here is a usefull snippet that I stole from qdap::url_dl to download files from my Dropbox to the working directory.Argument x is the document name and d the document key. dl_from_dropbox require(RCurl) bin ssl.verifypeer = FALSE) con writeBin(bin, con) close(con) message(noquote(... [Read more...]

A quick geo-tip:With the osmar and maptools package you can easily pull an OpenStreetMap object and convert it to KML, like below (thanks to adibender helping out on SO). I found the relation ID by googling for it (www.google.at/search?q=openstreetmap+relation+innsbruck).# get OSM datalibrary(... [Read more...]

First off, I'd really like to give a shout-out to the brave people who have created and maintain this great package - the fame is yours!So, while exploring the capabilities of the package some issues with the ITIS-Server arose and with large datasets things weren't working out quite well ... [Read more...]

Lately I had a list of about 1000 species names and I wanted to filter out only the plants as that is where I come from. I knew that Scott Chamberlain has put together the ritis package which obviously can do such things. However, I knew of ITIS before and was ... [Read more...]

The latest posting by Tony Hirst sparked my attention because I was thinking about a very similar issue recently.I was also fiddling around with agrep and adist until I realised that for this very issue matching of substrings is not as important as matching multiple words.. With this different ... [Read more...]

I just added this R-script that reads a PDF-file to R and does some text mining with it to my Github repo.. [Read more...]

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Here's how I did it in 3 easy steps: (1) Set up a form in Google Docs/Drive. (2) Choose "Actions" and "Embed in Website" to get the URL for the iframe and put it in a post, like below. Then, go to the spreadsheet view of the form on Google Docs/Drive ... [Read more...]

You can query global climate data from the KNMI Climate Explorer (the KNMI is the Royal Netherlands Metereological Institute) with R.Here's a little example how I retreived data for my hometown Innsbruck, Austria and plotted annual total precipitation.... [Read more...]

Here's a short follow-up on how to produce a word cloud for a search result from GScholarScraper_3.1:# File-Name: GScholarScraper_3.1.R# Date: 2012-08-22# Author: Kay Cichini# Email: [email protected]# Purpose: Scrape Google Scholar search result# ... [Read more...]

A commentator on my blog brought up this nice idea of how to use the GScholarScraper function for bibliometrics..I altered the code a little bit which enables to set a year since when results should be returned and added a field to the output collectin... [Read more...]

I have updated the Google Scholar Web-Scraper Function GScholarScaper_2 to GScholarScraper_3 (and GScholarScaper_3.1) as it was outdated due to changes in the Google Scholar html-code. The new script is more slender and faster. It returns a dataframe o... [Read more...]

I recently used R with GUI-elements for the first time and browsed through the available online resources, but I didn't quite find what I was searching for: The user should be able to put in some variables and call a function with a button. In the end ... [Read more...]

Thanks to a posting on R-sig-eco mailing list I learned of the IUCN-API. Here's a simple example for what can be done with it (output as pdf is HERE):require(XML)require(maptools)require(jpeg)input = "panthera-uncia"h [Read more...]

Referring to a recent posting on r-sig-eco mailing list I'll add this example to theBioBucket:library(vegan)library(vegan)data(dune)sol [Read more...]

Since library() and require() only accept input with length(input) = 1 it is necessary to make repeated calls - this can be quite annoying.. So, HERE is a little wrapper function for convenient package installation / loading. It installs packages if th... [Read more...]

For German-spoken users I added the function floraweb_scrape.R that allows you to conveniently collect species data and print to a PDF-file (see this example output). The function accesses data provided by the  web-site FloraWeb.de (BfN - Bundesministerium für Naturschutz).You can use it as an interactive ... [Read more...]

A quick tip on how to source R-scripts from a Dropbox-account:(1) Upload the script.. (2) Get link with the "get link" option. The link should look like "https://www.dropbox.com/s/XXXXXX/yourscript.R"..(3) Grab this part "XXXXXX/yourscript.R" and paste... [Read more...]

I'll use the below script that retrieves data for threatened bird species from the World Bank via its API and does some processing, plotting and analysis. There is a package (WDI) that allows you to access the data easily.# world bank indicators for sp... [Read more...]