I can’t believe I didn’t learn how to do it earlier, but I never knew how to accurately copy tables from excel that had text with spaces in them, and paste into a data frame in R without generating confusion … Continue reading → [Read more...]

In this article, I show you how to create a data.frame from a text submitted in a textarea field with FastRWeb. Requirements FastRWeb installed Knowledge of webforms ?read.table Experience in HTML5 Submit This example needs two scripts. The first one contains the webform. I wrote a FastRWeb script ... [Read more...]

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Here are some (trivial) R tips in the course Stat 511. I’ll update this post till the semester is over. Formatting R Code Reading code is pain, but the well-formatted code might alleviate the pain a little bit. The function tidy.source() in the animation package can help us format ... [Read more...]

s Sir Francis Bacon said, “Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.” And Windows stupid. He should have added the last sentence if he were a Windows user in this age. 1. Avoid Using M$ Excel A lot ... [Read more...]