Suddenly, Yahoo Mail wouldn’t take attachments. Then Twitter went down.

As much as we data scientists would like to work solely in R, there inevitably comes the time when our managers or customers want to see the fruits of our labours as a Word document or PowerPoint presentation.

A quick demo of RStudio’s R Notebooks shown by John Mount (of Win-Vector LLC, a statistics, data science, and algorithms consulting and training firm). (see http://ift.tt/294IvIr and https://www.rstudio.

(This article was first published on R – Data Shenanigans, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I recently had the opportunity to listen to some great minds in the area of high-frequency data and trading.

The conversation was fascinating to me. One issue that came up was monetization. Basically, creating an R Portfolio is a ton of work. How can you make any money out of it? I’m sure that there are lots of possibilities. But here are the two ways that came up.

I am so pleased to announce that tidytext 0.1.2 is now available on CRAN. This release of tidytext, a package for text mining using tidy data principles by Dave Robinson and me, includes some bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as some new functionality.

Let’s use it to play with mailbox statistics for my gmail account! Follow this link to download the data from your gmail account as a single mbox file. It may be large (15GB in my case), but for further steps it’s enough to keep only headers. grep + cat will do the job.