Welcome to r-prog’s documentation!

Contents:

• Workshop overview and materials
• Indices and tables
  • Workshop description
  • Materials and setup
  • Launch RStudio on Athena
  • Example project overview
• Extracting elements from html
  • Packages for parsing html
  • Extracting information from web pages with the rvest package
  • Just the data please – regular expressions to the rescue
  • Getting the list of data links the easy way
• Exercise 0: html parsing
• Exercise 0 prototype
• Downloading files in R
• Downloading all the files
  • Iterating using for-loop
  • Iterating over vectors and lists with the sapply function
  • Iterating in parallel with the mclapply function
• Exercise 1: Iterate and extract
• Exercise 1 prototype
• Importing and inspecting data and meta-data
  • Mode and length
  • Other properties of data.frames
  • Additional attributes
  • Extracting useful meta-data
• Aggregation
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 3 prototype
• Finishing touches
  • Data formatting
  • Plotting
• What else?
• Go forth and code!
  • Additional reading and resources
  • Things that may surprise you
  • Feedback
• Footnotes

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page