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SQL and R: Joins and Merges

Posted on April 10, 2018December 22, 2020 By Rob
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How to do joins and merges in SQL and their R equivalents.

Five More Common SQL Commands and Their R Equivalents

Posted on April 7, 2018December 22, 2020 By Rob
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Simple commands in SQL and their R equivalents.

Five Common SQL Commands and their R equivalents

Posted on March 30, 2018April 4, 2018 By Rob
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I’ve been taking a look at SQL lately and how it relates to R. SQL is a programming language to manipulate data in databases. Its syntax is different from R. It resembles standard English with clauses more so than R does. In this post I’m going to look at some simple SQL commands and their … Read More “Five Common SQL Commands and their R equivalents” »

My First Shiny App Part II: The Shiny code itself

Posted on January 21, 2018 By Rob
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Recap In the last post we got to the stage where we had the data for each club’s league positions since 1958/59 in a Google sheet. The next step is to visualise this data in a Shiny app. Shiny lets you create visualisations that your users can interact with, and they have slightly different code … Read More “My First Shiny App Part II: The Shiny code itself” »

2017 Blog Stats

Posted on January 1, 2018 By Rob
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Happy New Year to all my readers! Blog stats My last post took the blog through past 4,000 page views for 2017, up 41 per cent on 2016. I only started R for Journalists in October 2016, so it’s not an entirely fair comparison for a full year of 2017. However, I put this website … Read More “2017 Blog Stats” »

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