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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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Basic dynamic web pages, with XQuery and eXist

This self-guided tutorial builds up from a simple "Hello, World!" exercise to a dynamic web page that responds to user input. It uses eXist-db and teaches the basic interface elements of the eXide XQuery IDE for developing XQuery-based applications in eXist.

eXist is a free, open source native XML database. It's a great tool for learning how to query, analyze, and transform your data. Among the various interfaces for working with eXist, one of the most convenient is eXide, a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment) for writing XQuery modules and developing XQuery-based applications on your own computer without installing any additional software. eXide comes pre-installed with eXist and has a number of useful features. We'll just cover the basics here. And once you have something you'd like to turn into a web page, eXist has a built-in web server, so you can develop full-fledged web applications by learning just a few additional functions and tec

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library(tidyverse)
library(silgelib)
theme_set(theme_plex())

babynames <- read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2022/2022-03-22/babynames.csv')
#> Rows: 1924665 Columns: 5
#> ── Column specification ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
#> Delimiter: ","
#> chr (2): sex, name

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# Compiled source #
###################
*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so

# Packages #

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#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:-1,BBC - Radio 1
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_one.m3u8
#EXTINF:-1,BBC - Radio 1Xtra
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_1xtra.m3u8
#EXTINF:-1,BBC - Radio 1Dance
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_one_dance.m3u8
#EXTINF:-1,BBC - Radio 1Relax
http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/ak/bbc_radio_one_relax.m3u8
#EXTINF:-1,BBC - Radio 2

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# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Basically all translated from the Python example at https://atproto.com/blog/create-post
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

library(httr2)

# Create a logged-in API session object
session <- request("https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.server.createSession") |> 
  req_method("POST") |> 
  req_body_json(list(

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How to create custom symbols to use with d3.symbol().

As far as I understood, commands are theese.

Readapted from this fiddle.

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license: apache-2.0

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license: mit
border: no
height: 1000