Laminar Insight

All about making data and insights flow flawlessly

Have R Look After Your Stocks!

Use R to check stock prices for you and notify you.

If you like to dabble in the stock market as a side hustle or just out of sheer curiosity, you may have faced the dilemma of how frequently you should check your stock price. The on and off checking of price can be a real productivity killer. This tutorial will show you how you can do that constant price checking using R and have it send you a message when something interesting happens!

Automate Your Repetitive Reports!

Automating a task using R and windows task manager.

R can be used as a great tool to automate your repeat works such as: refreshing a report everyday based on new data or running some ETL process and storing the data in Data Base. In this article I will show how to automate a report creation and communication by using R and Windows scheduler.