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Data wrangling tricks from the R4DS slack
Every now and then there is a question on the R4DS slack that produces a large number of replies. This case was particularly interesting because the user that had the issue deleted all the original content, the question, the clarifications and so on.
Last updated on 2023-03-27 4 min read R
How to use custom icons in Rmd reports and Shiny applications
A workflow on how to create visually pleasing and effective static HTML visualizations of small-scale and heterogenous tabular data
Last updated on 2023-03-19 6 min read R, Shiny
How to set up an R-based AWS Lambda to write to AWS S3 on a schedule
An introduction to working with AWS S3 from R and a step-by-step workflow to set an AWS Lambda functon to save datasets to an S3 bucket on a weekly schedule
Last updated on 2023-03-27 8 min read AWS, R
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Set an R-based AWS Lambda function to run on a schedule
A step-by-step tutorial on how to deploy an R-based AWS Lambda function, how to set it to run on a recurring schedule, how to validate that the execution happens on schedule, and how to clean up. All from the R console.
Last updated on 2023-03-09 6 min read AWS, R
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An R AWS Lambda function to download Tidytuesday datasets
A detailed walk through the steps to prepare a custom R script for deployment as AWS Lambda with the r2lambda package. How to prepare an R script? What are the roles of several key arguments? How to request longer timeout or more memory for a Lambda function? How to parse the response payload returned by the Lambda function?
Last updated on 2023-02-25 5 min read AWS, R
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