How cool would it be to be able to see how your, or anyone else’s, website was presented on a specific day? With this script in R, I will show you how you can save screenshots of any website you…
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When you’re working with scheduled R scripts, it could be useful to get an alert when something goes wrong. Of course, there are ways to send emails, but wouldn’t it be nice if your entire team could get a notice…
I just stumbled upon a new favorite function in R, the possibility to upload HTML files directly via FTP from the console. This means that you can create a script, extracting and cleaning data, then plot the relevant information and…
Two of my biggest hobbies are watching movies/series and data. So not a big surprise that I wanted to get all the IMDB data into Google BigQuery. Once you have all the important data in BigQuery, you could easily search…
Hopefully you just read the first part of this guide and are ready for implementing code on your virtual machine in order to schedule daily data imports to BigQuery. Authorizing access to applications First off we need to upload our…
This post will guide you through the setup process for setting up a scheduler in Google Cloud with RStudio. I will also show you two use cases for what data you can import to Google BigQuery; Google Analytics (free version)…
With this script you can create vectors or data frames in R simply by marking the data you want and copy it to the clipboard. Then one simple line in R will import the data from the clipboard and structure…
First of all, I have to give a huge load of credit to Fredrik Cederlöf, who published a script for scraping Trustpilot that inspired me to write my own version that could scrape all relevant attributes for the reviews. If you’re…
Are you ready to get you mind blown away? This R script is probably the best script in the world. Well maybe not, but it’s definitely up there in the top. What the script will produce is the output below.…
I finally managed to create something really beautiful! With the following script in R you will be able to find out what products your visitors are buying in the same transaction. I will explain how it works one piece at…