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Using a Data Dictionary to Recode Columns with dplyr

This blog post provides an in-depth tutorial on using dplyr to recode and rename multiple columns across several datasets according to a data dictionary.

17 min read R, dplyr, recode
First published on Jun 30, 2023

Static and Dynamic Web Scraping with R

This blog post provides an instructive guide to web scraping in R, starting with basic techniques and advancing to complex tasks. It covers scraping static and dynamic websites, string manipulation and recursive functions.

14 min read R, rvest, RSelenium, web scraping
First published on May 31, 2023

Mastering the Many Models Approach

This blog post reviews the original Many Models Approach, updates it using the current tidyverse syntax, and expands upon the original approach by introducing new building blocks and helper functions.

41 min read R, dplyr, base R
First published on Mar 31, 2023 Last updated on Jul 12, 2023

Introducing: {hugodownplus} 📦

This blog post showcases the three main features of the new {hugodownplus} package: a table of content, expandable HTML boxes, and a session info box.

13 min read R, Rmarkdown, hugodown, package
First published on Feb 22, 2023

The ultimate guide to ordering rows in R

This blog post shows how to order rows in a dataframe using four different approaches: base R, data.table, dplyr, and python’s pandas.

56 min read R, Python, base R, dplyr, data.table, pandas
First published on Feb 2, 2023

Partially renaming columns using a lookup table

This blog post shows how to partially rename columns with a lookup table using four different approaches: base R, data.table, dplyr, and pandas.

12 min read R, Python, base R, dplyr, data.table, pandas
First published on Dec 23, 2022