Kaizen-R

Category: R Coding

  • Going SQL: Postgres (3/3) – Now with R

    For the past two Blog entries, we spent time preparing for today: We want to use a Postgres SQL Database backend to work with our JSON data, from R. Before we continue… We’re still missing one piece: the table(s) in the Database. Let’s tackle that very quickly for today, as the focus will be on…

  • Gathering data: Scraping the web

    Intro A couple of weeks ago I uploaded on my GitHub account the first version of a simple Scraping script. Getting web pages and working with them from a script, when API are not available, can be quite useful. In this case, I “scraped” the CRT.sh website, looking up information about mine. Nothing aggressive, one…

  • A revelation: R Futures

    Intro I have been accepting (NOT complaining about) R limitation of being mono-core, monothread. For a long time. Actually, for years. I even went all the way to using Docker to distribute compute load across CPUs of one (or more) physical machine. It was just something I had “assumed” was like that. But what little…