Taking Advanced Analytics to the Cloud – Part I: R on AWS
Running R on the cloud isn’t very difficult. This demo shows how to get Rstudio running on Amazon Web Services. To run R on the cloud we need to initiate a machine/computer and install R – that’s all very simple. Where you might get caught up is in the settings and permissions. Step 1: Create […]
Taking Advanced Analytics to the Cloud – Part II: Objects from S3 to R using the aws.s3 package
When taking advanced analytics to the cloud you’ll need a strong understanding of your platform – whether it’s compute, storage, or some other feature. This tutorial walks you through reading to and from Amazon Web Service’s Simple Storage Service. For this demo cod will be running though Rstudio which is running on a linux server […]
Most Downloaded R Packages of 2016
I was curious what packages are the most downloaded from CRAN. A quick google search of “most downloaded R packages 2016” produces outdated articles (see here, here, and here). Luckily the Rstudio CRAN keeps logs of the number of users downloading packages each day. With a few lines of code the data downloaded and aggregated. […]
Target Store Locations with rvest and ggmap
I just finished developing a presentation for Target Analytics Network showcasing geospatial and mapping tools in R . I decided to use Target store locations as part of a case study in the presentation. The problem: I didn’t have any store location data, so I needed to get it from somewhere off the web. Since […]