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+This is a simple R script to generate a simple report for post activity on a facebook page. 
+
+You:
+- export your post data from the Facebook Page statistics tab to Excel
+- export the key metrics sheet as csv from within Excel
+- plug it in this script
+- compile using RStudio into a HTML file
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+Then everythong should work fine
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