R is good at analyzing data. Many data are provided as JSON from RESTful APIs with an URL. R natively support many data format. For JSON, we can use some libraries. For reading JSON from URL, we can use the “jsonlite” package. In this example, we use an example of fetching BTC prices of last
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Author: Daniel
Reading Excel xls/xlsx Files in R
Posted onMany useful data are stored in Excel xls or xlsx format files. R is good at doing analysis on top of data. We would then need to import the data to R by reading the xls/xlsx files to be R data frames. In this post, we check how to import data from Excel files to
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2 Ways of Modifying macOS Keyboard’s Right Option to Control for Mac Pro
Posted onFor heavy Terminal/Shell/command line users, the Control key is a very frequently used key. However, in Mac Pro keyboard, there is only a single left Control key for some models. This cause quite some inconvenience. In this post, we will go through how to configure/remap the keys to “create” a right Control key. Remap keys
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