Category Archives: R

Reading Text Files in R

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Mercy Beckham

It is pretty straight forward to read csv files in R – simply give the source of the data file that be in trial1 = read.csv(“data\\sample1.csv”) With importing text files in R, you got same default parameters to play around … Continue reading →

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Wedding Reception Venue thru R

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Mercy Beckham

After finding related facts between Jay and me that goes back to ancient times, I moved to learn geocoding and maps visualization in R. Here is how I learnt – Started with loading needed libraries: > library(ggplot2) > library(maps) > … Continue reading →

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Fun with Financials

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Mercy Beckham

When there is a need for quick and comprehensive financial data in R, quantmod comes to rescue. It was originally envisioned as a rapid prototyping environment to facilitate quantitative modeling, testing, and trading. Quantmod allows R to read data from … Continue reading →

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PivotalR

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Mercy Beckham

PivotalR package is an R front-end to PostgreSQL, Pivotal (Greenplum) database, and a wrapper for machine learning open-source library MADlib. It also interacts with Pivotal HD/HAWQ for Big Data analytics by providing an interface to the operations on tables/views in … Continue reading →

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