Using Benaiah Ubah’s “R Community Explorer” dashboard, I explored recent R-Google Summer of Code (R-GSoC) projects to aid in a proposal for #rstats Google Summer of Code 2021. What jumped out at me was how often “Biodiversity” has appeared in a project name. Vijay Barve, Tomer Gueta, and Thiloshon Nagarajah are among the names of frequent […]
I discovered this week that the developer of the R Community Explorer web-based dashboard has created all of his glorious output on an inferior computer. Please consider becoming a patron of Ben Ubah’s R Community Explorer for as little as $1 / month. There is no time commitment – terminate patronge at any time. The […]
I have an in-development but functional R package, meetupxlanimate, that makes heavy use of the R-Ladies meetupr package in acquiring event, attendee, and member-joining data for Meetup groups, and then storing that data in an Excel workbook. Data visualizations are also created. It is currently dependent on installing the Github version of meetupr and then […]
TLDR: If you see an rsession.exe error that references EXTPRT_PTR when opening and closing R Studio after updating Rcpp, you appear to have the options of (i) updating R or (ii) installing the current Github version of Rcpp. *** I experienced a need to update Rcpp when I attempted to install the readxlsb R package, […]
This project has been featured in the R-Consortium blog! https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2019/08/12/r-community-explorer https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2019/09/09/r-community-explorer-r-user-groups I recently completed my mentorship with Dr. Claudia Vitolo of Google Summer of Code 2019 (GSoC 2019) mentee, Ben Ubah. Ben designed a Travis Continuous Integration and JavaScript-based dashboard for R-Ladies, R Users, and GSoC R-Consortium projects. The R-Ladies meetupr package was strongly leveraged. […]
The first seeds have been released for the Ultimate Runner 2019, a June 29th multi-distance running event coordinated by the Twin City Track Club in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I used R and regular expressions to extract columnar data from an emailed non-fixed width table containing names, gender, age, and 1-mile seed times. You can download […]
This is part 2 of my email cleaning work for the youth mentoring service organization, “100 Black Men of Triangle East”. The national “100 Black Men” motto is “What They See is What They’ll Be”. Here is part 1. Asking our email list whether they wanted to unsubscribe through a Gmail email created a mess […]
Enhanced data visualizations and updated data for Research Triangle Analysts Analytics>Forward 2019. #AnalyticsForward
An R script to clean email addresses in an indefinite number of Microsoft Excel files and aggregate them into a single file with plenty of metadata.
Zillow $1M machine learning winner, Jordan Meyer, keynoting this Durham, NC March 9, 2019 event. Register using this link! Using the lessons learned from last year’s study of the R Ladies meetupr R package, and tracking Analytics>Forward 2018 registrations with the Meetup.com API, I quickly adjusted my code (at bottom) to explore this year’s event […]
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