In regression modeling, it is common to correct standard errors for natural groupings (clusters) in the data. There are various ways to calculate these values using R, from doing it manually to using one of many packages. Theoretically, Zelig is an R package that will cluster standard errors automatically. In my experience, however, it does […]
I’ve been writing some scripts to work with Twitter’s REST API. Naturally, I went to their developer documentation to refresh myself on their rate limits. As of today, the link they provide to their rate limit chart is broken. Fortunately, I clipped this page to Evernote a long time ago. I was therefore able to […]
I recently had to read an Excel spreadsheet into R. Why Excel? The original data were in a Google Sheet, and it appears that Google downloads everything to a .xlsx. (There HAS to be a way to download to .csv, but I did not feel like searching.) Opening the file – it was only 12 […]
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