One of the great things about (software) code is that people build on it and out from it… Which means that as well as producing ever more complex bits of software, tools also get produced over time that make it easier to do things that were once hard to do, ... [Read more...]

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by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The PowerPoint slides below give an overview of screen scraping and mapping in R. Details with comments about many of the R statements can be found in these articles: Simple R Screen Scraping Example R Screen Scraping:... [Read more...]

My first package, zipcode, is now available on CRAN. It contains the CivicSpace database of 43,191 U.S. zip codes. [Read more...]

Yesterday, Deepak wrote about BridgeDB, a software package to deal with the “identifier mapping problem”. Put simply, biologists can name a biological entity in any way that they like, leading to multiple names for the same object. Easily solved, you might think, by choosing one identifier and sticking to it, ... [Read more...]