purrr

This post is about how to extract data from a json, turn it into a tibble and do some work with the result. I’m working with a download of personal data from polarsteps. A picture of Tokomaru Wharf (New Zealand) I was a month in New Zealand, birthplace of R and home to Hobbits. I logged my travel using the Polarsteps application. The app allows you to upload pictures and write stories about your travels. [Read More]

Use purrr to feed four cats In this example we will show you how to go from a ‘for loop’ to purrr. Use this as a cheatsheet when you want to replace your for loops. Imagine having 4 cats. (like this one:) Four real cats who need food, care and love to live a happy life. They are starting to meow, so it’s time to feed them. Our real life algorithm would be: [Read More]

Recently I wanted to download all the transcripts of a podcast (600+ episodes). The transcripts are simple txt files so in a way I am not even ‘web’-scraping but just reading in 600 or so text files which is not really a big deal. I thought. This post shows you where I went wrong Also here is a picture I found of scraping. Webscraping general For every download you ask the server for a file and it returns the file (this is also how you normally browse the web btw, your browser requests the pages). [Read More]