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	<title>AnthroSpace &#187; R</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>
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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:
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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>

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		<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>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. 
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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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		<title>Connecting Qgis to R using Python</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/connecting-qgis-to-r-using-python</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/connecting-qgis-to-r-using-python#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Plugin adds basic stats functionality to Qgis.
]]></description>
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		<title>Read data from MS Access into R on Mac OS 10.5</title>
		<link>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/mdb-tools-for-mac-105</link>
		<comments>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/mdb-tools-for-mac-105#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claudia Engel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[R]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To read tables that are within a Microsoft Access Database, R needs  the mdb-tools  executables mdb-tables, mdb-schema, and mdb-export to be installed and in the system path. Since compiling those is not trivial, I have provided the binaries here, which I compiled from mdb-tools version 0.6pre1. Support is for Access 97 (Jet 3) [...]]]></description>
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