I’m happy to introduce an add-on package, pdfsearch, that adds the ability to do keyword searches on pdf files. This add-on package uses the excellent pdftools package from the ropensci project to read in pdf files and perform keyword searches based character strings of interest.
Installation The package is currently only hosted on github and can be installed with the devtools library.
devtools::install_github('lebebr01/pdfsearch') Basic Example Doing a simple keyword search on a single pdf file uses the keyword_search function.
Have you ever used a markdown file to create an html file? Have you ever wanted to quickly format the subsequent html file to add some color or other aspects? If your answer is yes to both of those questions, this package may be of interest to you.
The highlightHTML package aims to develop a flexible approach to add formatting to an html document by injecting CSS into the file.
My first statistical software package I used as an undergrad was SPSS. I was fortunate during my senior year at Luther College to be initially introduced to R. I did not realize it at the time (except for the pretty graphics) that this was the start of something big for me. Fast forward a year to graduate school at the University of Minnesota and the majority of my program was again using SPSS.