Month: May 2018

Written by ZacharyST

The Lazy Way Around Updating my gcc Compiler

Today, I need to launch a new AWS EC2 instance to collect some more tweets.  Since I have done this several times, I used my AWS console to replicate the most recent instance I created that collects tweets.  Everything ran smoothly until I tried to install streamR, my go to library for collecting tweets in […]

Written by ZacharyST

A Slightly Less Simple Function for Forest Plots

This post is a sequel to my wildly popular – ok, not wildly popular, but very useful for me – post documenting my function to create a forest plot.  Recently, I made models using cross-validation via R’s caret package.  The train() function does the heavy lifting, but the problem is that its output is a […]