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##Installation information for R with GTK+

###Windows Install the newest version of R. Additionally, I highly recommend R-Studio for working with R regularly (but the basic command line will work just fine for most applications). Once R is installed, you can install GTK directly from within R (details below). In short:

• install R for Windows
• optional but recommended: install R-Studio
• install GTK+

1. From the R command line (e.g. in R-Studio), install the RGtk2 package by running: install.packages("RGtk2", depen=T)
   This might fail with the warning that package ‘RGtk2’ is not available (for R version xxx) if your version of R has been released very recently. If so, just run install.packages("RGtk2", depen=T, type="source") instead to install the RGtk2 package directly from its source code (this might take a few mi

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# Here are a few methods for getting text from PDF files. Do read through 
# the instructions carefully! NOte that this code is written for Windows 7,
# slight adjustments may be needed for other OSs

# Tell R what folder contains your 1000s of PDFs
dest <- "G:/somehere/with/many/PDFs"

# make a vector of PDF file names
myfiles <- list.files(path = dest, pattern = "pdf",  full.names = TRUE)

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#!/bin/sh
# usage ./create-psql-database DATABASE
#
DB_NAME=$1
FOLDER_NAME="nhgis0004"


# Drop and recreate database
dropdb --interactive "${DB_NAME}"
createdb --encoding UTF8 $DB_NAME