Google Trends + R: Leverage gtrendsR Package for More Powerful Search Trend Analytics

Google Trends is a popular tool for all manner of curiousity related to trends in search activity on the Google search engine: what topics are trending? what are trends for a given search term? how does this compare to other terms? what related terms are people using? how does interest vary by region? And lots…

How to Create a Custom R Markdown Template

If you use the R language for statistical programming, you probably use RStudio as your integrated development environment (IDE) and you may also use – or at least have come across – R Markdown as a file type that allows you to create documents that weave together data and text analysis. (Gratuitous example: my curiousity…

Publish R Markdown to WordPress site? Yes You Can!

This post is based on an R Markdown file published directly to WordPress.com – and you can do it, too! It was made possible by the great work of others, shared in the following highly recommended resources: RWordPress pkg by Duncan Temple Lang (2012) – there was a helpful vignette but can't find it any…