R

Forbes cohort

In order to know how did the fortune of billionaires change, one must follow their individual fortune changes. I will present in this post some basic technics about name recognition and data management to construct a cohort from the list of billionaires in 2010 and in 2020 extracted from Forbes.

Web scraping with rvest and RSelenium

An example of use of rvest and RSelenium to get data from a website. The goal here is to get the 2010 and 2020 list of billionaires from forbes, to then make a small cohort study

non-equi merge in data.table and epidemiology

I will present the basic concepts of non-equi merges in data.table, and apply it to two common situations

non-equi merge in data.table and epidemiology

I will present the basic concepts of non-equi merges in data.table, and apply it to two common situations

How to find someone in a data frame

I will show my solution to efficiently identify persons and find someone in a data frame in R.

COVID19 data: pdf scrapping

Use R to get data on pdf reports about COVID19 (spanish data or WHO)

Read html tables with cells spanning on multiple rows

A function to scrapp html table with cells spanning on multiple rows

Spatial gradient calculation

Use R to calculate a gradient, and plot it with ggplot