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We should have been paying attention during Perl classes

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: March 22, 2013

A joint post by Keith Resendes (histogramma.com) and Gary Davis Image courtesy of http://translationbiz.wordpress.com 1. We found unemployment data in text format by metropolitan area, for several years (by months in fact) at a Bureau of Labor Statistics site. 2. Great! we thought: let’s read this into R using the read.table function. 3. Uh, oh! […]