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izahn / R screen scraping example.R
Created June 14, 2013 21:06
This R script contains a simple screen scraping example, downloading the text of the articles in the CNN website rss feed.
## This R script contains a simple screen scraping example,
## downloading the text of the articles in the CNN website
## rss feed.
library(RCurl)
library(XML)
options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
## get rss document
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izahn / Lexis Nexis Parser.R
Created June 20, 2013 20:14
Parse Lexis Nexis html into rectangular form
library(XML) ## for html parsing
library(stringr) ## for easier string manipulation
library(plyr) ## for easier data manipulation
options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
## We want to parse the html output from Lexis Nexis, such as this one:
fname <- "The_New_York_Times2013-06-19_16-25.HTML"
## Inspecting the html suggests the following structure:
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izahn / README.org
Last active January 1, 2021 00:08
Yet another attempt at a sane emacs config

Requirements for a sane emacs config for social scientists

Requirements

Emacs is many things to many people, being perhaps the most configurable text editor ever created. However, there are some common tools that social scientists often make use of that are not accessible in emacs by default. It is therefore desirable to create a base configuration that enables the features that social scientists are likely to find useful. The table below lists some of these requirements, and describes how they can be made available in emacs.

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izahn / ob-stata.el
Last active August 29, 2015 14:02
Preliminary Stata support for org-babel in emacs
;;; ob-stata.el --- org-babel functions for stata code evaluation
;; Copyright (C) 2014 Ista Zahn
;; Author: Ista Zahn, based on ob-julia.el by G. Jay Kerns, and ob-R.el
;; by Eric Schulte and Dan Davison
;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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izahn / haven_package_frustrations.R
Created September 15, 2015 18:26
Haven package frustrations
library(haven)
library(dplyr)
library(foreign)
## Read Stata dataset with foreign
xf <- read.dta("http://izahn.crabdance.com/owncloud/index.php/s/PlXcLrNFyKoIDk3/download")
## Read Stata dataset with haven
xh <- read_dta("http://izahn.crabdance.com/owncloud/index.php/s/PlXcLrNFyKoIDk3/download")
str(xf) ## structure of foreign result is comprehensable
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izahn / cvimrc
Last active December 22, 2015 19:49
" Settings
set noautofocus " The opposite of autofocus; this setting stops
" sites from focusing on an input box when they load
set numerichints
set typelinkhints
let barposition = "bottom"
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izahn / Emacspeak_OSX_installation_instructions.sh
Last active January 1, 2021 13:21
Emacspeak Mac OS X installation instructions
### Step-by-step terminal instructions to install emacspeak on OS X.
### Copy-paste each step (one step at a time!) into the terminal.
### Much of the information presented here was copied from
### http://e-mac-speak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/e-mac-speak-howto.org
### More useful settings may be found at https://github.com/ragb/emacs-ragb/blob/master/init.el
## WARNING: These steps worked for me, but they may not work for you. In fact they may break things, turn your computer into
## a paperweight, and/or eat your kittens. These instructions are provided in the hope that they may be useful,
## but you are responsible for running them and for any damange doing so may cause.
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izahn / PKGBUILD
Created May 3, 2016 20:34
emacspeak 44 package build for Archlinux
# Maintainer: Steve Holmes <steve.holmes88@gmail.com>
# Contributers: Chris Brannon <cmbrannon79@gmail.com>
pkgname=emacspeak
pkgver=44.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Emacs extension that provides spoken output"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak"
license=('GPL' 'LGPL' 'APACHE')
depends=('emacs' 'tcl' 'tclx' 'espeak')
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izahn / helm_config.el
Created May 20, 2016 19:48
Helm config
;;; Completion hints for files and buffers buffers
(require 'helm-config)
(helm-mode 1)
;;rebind tab to do persistent action
(define-key helm-map (kbd "<tab>") 'helm-execute-persistent-action)
;; make TAB works in terminal
(define-key helm-map (kbd "C-i") 'helm-execute-persistent-action)
;list actions using C-z
(define-key helm-map (kbd "C-z") 'helm-select-action)
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izahn / tst.r
Last active June 16, 2017 02:36
print(getwd())
setwd("/home/ubuntu")
install.packages("aws.s3", repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com", lib = .libPaths()[1])
library("aws.s3")
print(bucketlist())
write.csv(bucketlist(), "check.csv")