Author: Benjamin Mako Hill (mako@atdot.cc)
License: GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version
-Home: http://projects.mako.cc/
+Code: http://projects.mako.cc/source/?p=gmail-maildir-counter
+
+I wrote this code in order to do the analysis I posted in this blog
+post:
+
+http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours
+
+If you want to send me patches or bugfixes, details on how to do that
+are here:
+
+http://projects.mako.cc/source/
1. Parse your mailbox using the count_gmail.py script
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2. Parse the output using analysis.R
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-I run R interactively in Emacs/ESS but you might want to use RStudio
-if you are not familiar with Emacs. Alternatively, if you also output
-into mail_metadata.tsv, you can just run:
+If have not used R, you will to install R and three libraries I use in
+the script.
+
+First, install R. In Debian and Ubuntu, the package is r-base.
+
+You will then need to install three R libraries. The easiest way to do
+that is from within R. To start R, just invoke it from your shell:
+
+$ R
+
+Once R is running, you can install the packages by running these three
+commands from within the R interactive shell:
+
+> install.packages("data.table")
+> install.packages("ggplot2")
+> install.packages("reshape")
+
+Once youv'e done that, you can run the scripts. I run R interactively
+in Emacs/ESS but you might want to use RStudio if you are not familiar
+with Emacs. Alternatively, if you also output into mail_metadata.tsv,
+you can just run:
$ R --no-save < analysis.R
The I converted the PDFs into PNGs with imagemagick's mogrify:
-$ mogrify -format png *pdf
\ No newline at end of file
+$ mogrify -format png *pdf
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