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Where do R's supportive members mainly come from?
library(pipeR) # https://github.com/renkun-ken/pipeR
library(rlist) # https://github.com/renkun-ken/rlist
library(rvest) # https://github.com/hadley/rvest
library(stringr) # https://github.com/hadley/stringr
# please ensure rvest is the latest dev version
Pipe("http://www.r-project.org/foundation/memberlist.html")$
html()$ # use xpath to scrape the name list
html_nodes(xpath = "//table[2]//td//text() | //table[3]//td//text()")$
html_text(trim = TRUE)$
str_match_all(".+\\s\\((.+)\\)")$ # select their nations
list.rbind()[,2]$ # combine to matrix and select nation column
str_split(", ")$ # some members have multiple nationalities
unlist()$
table()$
sort(decreasing = TRUE)$
head(10)$
barplot(main = "Where do R's supportive members mainly come from?")
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pssguy commented Sep 15, 2014

Thanks very much
Yes Ari has done a good job on choroplethr and it works in shiny and rmarkdown which I don't believe some of the attractive rMaps options do. There is also a prob with country aliases e.g UK in my example

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