Analyzing and Managing Facebook Ads from R

Wrapper functions around the Facebook Marketing 'API' to create, read, update and delete custom audiences, images, campaigns, ad sets, ads and related content.

A Lightweight, Modern and Flexible Logging Utility

Inspired by the the 'futile.logger' R package and 'logging' Python module, this utility provides a flexible and extensible way of formatting and delivering log messages with low overhead.

Migration Indices

Calculate various indices, like Crude Migration Rate, different Gini indices or the Coefficient of Variation among others, to show the (un)equality of migration.

A Report Templating System

Facilitating the creation of reproducible statistical report templates. Once created, rapport templates can be exported to various external formats (HTML, LaTeX, PDF, ODT etc.) with pandoc as the converter backend.

'AWS' Athena 'DBI' Wrapper

'RJDBC' based 'DBI' driver to Amazon Athena, which is an interactive query service to analyze data in Amazon 'S3' using standard 'SQL'.

Using R to Install Stuff on Windows OS (Such As: R, 'Rtools', 'RStudio', 'Git', and More!)

R is great for installing software. Through the 'installr' package you can automate the updating of R (on Windows, using updateR()) and install new software. Software installation is initiated through a GUI (just run installr()), or through functions such as: install.Rtools(), install.pandoc(), install.git(), and many more. The updateR() command performs the following: finding the latest R version, downloading it, running the installer, deleting the installation file, copy and updating old packages to the new R installation.

NASA POWER API Client

An API client for NASA POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data API. POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources) data are freely available for download with varying spatial resolutions dependent on the original data and with several temporal resolutions depending on the POWER parameter and community. This work is funded through the NASA Earth Science Directorate Applied Science Program. For more on the data themselves, the methodologies used in creating, a web- based data viewer and web access, please see < https://power.larc.nasa.gov/>.