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How to hide a password in R with the keyring package

This post will introduce using the keyring package to hide a password. Short background The keyring package is a library…

5 years ago

Does “Sell in May, Go Away” really work?

If you follow the stock market, you've probably heard the expression "Sell in May, Go Away." This expression generally refers…

5 years ago

Four ways to reverse a string in R

R offers several ways to reverse a string, include some base R options. We go through a few of those…

5 years ago

Don’t forget the “utils” package in R

With thousands of powerful packages, it's easy to glaze over the libraries that come preinstalled with R. Thus, this post…

6 years ago

Speed Test: Sapply vs. Vectorization

The apply functions in R are awesome (see this post for some lesser known apply functions). However, if you can…

6 years ago

Creating a word cloud on R-bloggers posts

This post will go through how to create a word cloud of article titles scraped from the awesome R-bloggers. Our…

6 years ago

How to change a file’s last modified date with R

This relatively quick post goes through how to change a file's last modified date with base R. How to change…

6 years ago

10 R functions for Linux commands and vice-versa

This post will go through 10 different Linux commands and their R alternatives. If you're interested in learning more R…

6 years ago

Those “other” apply functions…

So you know lapply, sapply, and apply...but...what about rapply, vapply, or eapply? These are generally a little less known as…

6 years ago

How to run R from the Task Scheduler

In a prior post, we covered how to run Python from the Task Scheduler on Windows. This article is similar,…

6 years ago