rmd2jupyter
Convert rmarkdown (.Rmd) files into jupyter notebooks (.ipynb).
Example
Create a .Rmd file.
rmd <- "# Module 1. Working with web APIs
## Gathering publicly available web data
The two most common ways to collect publicly available web data are (1) web scraping and (2) interacting with Application Program Interfaces (API).
## Web scraping
- A normal workflow goes something like this
- Extract website source code, known as Extensible Markup Language (XML). XML is similar to HTML only designed for storing not displaying data.
- Although XML trees contain elements, tags, and text, data collected via web scraping is almost always unstructred
### Web scraping in R
- I recommend the {rvest} package.
\`\`\`{r}
library(rvest)
## population statistics
population_url <- \"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)\"
## read in page
pop <- read_html(population_url)
\`\`\`"
## save as temp file
tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".Rmd")
cat(rmd, file = tmp)
## render html
rmarkdown::render(tmp)
## output output
browseURL(gsub("\\.Rmd$", ".html", tmp))Rmd -> html
Screen capture of output.
Rmd -> ipynb.
Now convert to an ipython notebook.
## install and load rmd2jupyter
devtools::install_github("mkearney/rmd2jupyter")
library(rmd2jupyter)
## convert
rmd2jupyter(tmp)
## open via your jupyter notebook methodScreen capture of jupyter notebook.
