Analysis: Fun, Meaningful, Reproducible
New post test
March 18, 2017
An initial example using knitpost R script, see post by JFisher, for quickly converting R-markdown (*.rmd) into markdown (*.md) with the associated images and such…
Learning ggplot2
March 18, 2017
Here is a short example intro to ggplot2. For this we’ll work with the mtcars dataset.
knitr::kable(head(mtcars),
caption = "Top Rows of mtcars dataset")| mpg | cyl | disp | hp | drat | wt | qsec | vs | am | gear | carb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mazda RX4 | 21.0 | 6 | 160 | 110 | 3.90 | 2.620 | 16.46 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Mazda RX4 Wag | 21.0 | 6 | 160 | 110 | 3.90 | 2.875 | 17.02 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Datsun 710 | 22.8 | 4 | 108 | 93 | 3.85 | 2.320 | 18.61 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Hornet 4 Drive | 21.4 | 6 | 258 | 110 | 3.08 | 3.215 | 19.44 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Hornet Sportabout | 18.7 | 8 | 360 | 175 | 3.15 | 3.440 | 17.02 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Valiant | 18.1 | 6 | 225 | 105 | 2.76 | 3.460 | 20.22 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Using R to Datamine Twitter - Intro
December 08, 2014
This post describes how to:
- set-up a developer account with Twitter;
- create a Twitter application to generate a key and token for your API;
- write R code to use this API to pull tweets from Twitter on a given key word or words;
- parse the tweets; and
- then create a word cloud to illustrate a data mining visualization graphic.
Learn to Post at RPubs
November 29, 2014
Rpubs is a great place to post markdown files created using RStudio and knitr to create markdown files that are then rendered and posted at Rpubs. This post describes one of my first posts at Rpubs.
My website launched at Github
November 23, 2014
My initial website was created at github.com as a user page with the default username.github.io at melinda.higgins2000.github.io as a master branch. However, I redesigned the site as a project page called web2 located at melindahiggins2000.github.io/web2/ under the gh-pages branch. I also created another Project Site on SAS University.
Setting up Twitter
November 23, 2014
I just setup my Twitter account. You can follow me at @mhiggins2000. Check out this post for the basics on getting started with Twitter.
Test Post Reproducible Research
November 23, 2014
test post for Reproducible Research
Melinda's First Post
November 22, 2014
Here is some text for my first post
Test R Markdown file - converted
July 03, 2014
An initial example using knitpost R script, see post by JFisher, for quickly converting R-markdown (*.rmd) into markdown (*.md) with the associated images and such…