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	<title>AnthroSpace &#187; Research Tools</title>
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		<title>Download Global Administrative Areas as RData files</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/download-global-administrative-areas-as-rdata-files</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/download-global-administrative-areas-as-rdata-files#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[administrative boundaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESRI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Administrative Areas (GADM) is a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas. Files are provided as Google Earth KMZ, shapefiles (.shp), ESRI geodatabase and as I was exited to see: as .RData files.

Download or load directly from the website.
This will create an object called gadm:
PLAIN TEXT
R:




library&#40;sp&#41;


# let's take a small country...


con [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scraping New York Times Articles with R</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/scraping-new-york-times-articles-with-r</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/scraping-new-york-times-articles-with-r#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[API]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Webscraping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very simple, quick and dirty attempt to make use of the NYT Articles API from within R.
It retrieves the publishing dates of articles that contain a query string and plots the number of articles over time, like this:
The How-To:
There are a currently few limitations on the NYT Article API.

Results are in JSON [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>R on Xgrid via Gridstuffer</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/r-on-xgrid-via-gridstu%ef%ac%80er</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/r-on-xgrid-via-gridstu%ef%ac%80er#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xgrid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This procedure was used to run redistricting simulations with an R module called BARD (Better Automated ReDistricting). Since the same code needed to be run repeatedly for 2-200 seats and for all US states, a parallel computing environment was used. DISCLAIMER: This assumes that one has some control over the Xgrid agents -- we did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distributed Collaboration with Aquamacs</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/distributed-collaboration-with-aquamacs</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/distributed-collaboration-with-aquamacs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collaboration & Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aquamacs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emacs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[latex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[svn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/?p=569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I revisited Aquamacs (1.7), to see how I could set it up for a distributed collaboration scenario. Here are a few things I found helpful.
Set up Aquamacs for subversion:
I used psvn, rather than the built in support. Download from here : http://www.xsteve.at/prg/vc_svn/
Create a folder ~/elisp and save the file as psvn.el there
Add the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy download of asdar datasets</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/easy-download-of-asdar-datasets</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/easy-download-of-asdar-datasets#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for an easy way to download all the example data used Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, this script was recently posted on the R-sig-Geo Mailing list by one of the book's authors, Roger Bivand.

#! /bin/bash
export ASDAR="http://www.asdar-book.org/"
export ASDAR_BUNDLES="${ASDAR}bundles"
CHAPTERS="hello cm vis die cm2 csdacm sppa geos lat1 lat2 dismap"
for ch in $CHAPTERS; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running OxCal on an Xgrid</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/running-oxcal-on-an-xgrid</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/running-oxcal-on-an-xgrid#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Xgrid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OxCal is a freeware program, developed by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU), University of Oxford. It applies a Bayesian approach for the analysis of archaeological and environmental chronological information. Binaries are distributed for the current version (v.4) for Mac and Win platforms.
The application consists of three main modules. The project manager and output module [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand drawn maps</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/hand-drawn-maps</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/hand-drawn-maps#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethno Toolkit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maps]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am intrigued about hand drawn maps as representations of space. The Hand Drawn Maps Association is an "ongoing archive of user submitted maps and other interesting diagrams created by hand". Here is another collection.
Below is a map which was given to a friend of mine this summer, and which we used to find possibly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bivand: &#8220;Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/bivand-applied-spatial-data-analysis-with-r</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/bivand-applied-spatial-data-analysis-with-r#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Bivand has published, figures, code, datasets, and exercises on the homepage of his new book. A hugely valuable resource. 
]]></description>
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		<title>Access MySQL on Mac 10.5 from R</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/access-mysql-on-mac-105-from-r</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/access-mysql-on-mac-105-from-r#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Getting R to speak to mysql is a breeze but setting up the DB and getting the table in requires a bit of fiddling. Here goes the story.  Hope that helps and I have no typos in there.

1. Install  mysql server
Disk image for 10.4 works on Leopard
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#macosx-dmg
Apply this fix for Leopard to add mysql server [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combine R and Google</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/combine-r-and-google</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/combine-r-and-google#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Spatial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here you can download R code that allows to quickly generate maps from R using Google Charts.
]]></description>
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