I like to turn coincidence into convergence whenever possible. This weekend, a user of [cdcfluview](http://github.com/hrbrmstr/cdcfluview) had a question that caused me to notice a difference in behaviour between the package was interacting with CDC FluView API, so I updated the package to accommodate the change and the user.

Around the same time, @recology_ tweeted:

we're at 6983 #rstats pkgs https://t.co/4i6dWF103I – quick, someone submit 17 more so we can hit 7K

— Scott Chamberlain (@recology_) August 9, 2015

Finally, the [2015-2016 flu season](http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2015-2016.htm) is also fast approaching (so a three-fer!), making a CRAN leap for `cdcfluview` quite timely.

Since I can’t let @quonimous have all the `#rstats` fun & glory, I added a function and two data sets to `cdcfluview`, did the CRAN dance and it’s now [on CRAN](https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/cdcfluview/). I also did the github dance to have it’s entry in the [Web Technologies Task View](https://cran.rstudio.com/web/views/WebTechnologies.html) updated.

The new function lets you grab the XML behind the high-level [Weekly US Map: Influenza Summary Update](http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm) (I’ll be adding a function to make a similar plot that won’t require gosh-awful Flash) and the data sets provide metadata about the composition of HHS regions and Census regions, making it easier to compose factors, add labels to maps or even segment maps/combine polygons. The existing two grab current & historical detailed national & state influenza data.

There’s an example on github and in the

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• Less Drama, More Encoding
• Installing R on OS X – “100% Homebrew Edition”
• Installing R on OS X
• Replicating NatGeo’s “Proper” Earthquake Map in R
• For Some Definition of “Directly” and/or “Contort”
• A Package Full o’ Pirates & Makin’ Interactive Pirate Maps in arrrrrRstats
• A Better Way To Read Nest Data Into R
• Roll Your Own Stats and Geoms in ggplot2 (Part 1: Splines!)
• Three New #rstats Twitter Bots To Follow
• Coloring (and Drawing) Outside the Lines in ggplot
• New Pacakge “docxtractr” – Easily Extract Tables From Microsoft Word Docs
• Using R To Get Data *Out Of* Word Docs
• Doh! I Could Have Had Just Used V8!
• Track Hurricane Danny (Interactively) with R + leaflet
• cdcfluview – On The Way to “CRAN 7K”
• Adding a CRAN Search Engine to Chrome
• Speeding Up Your Quest(s) For “R Stuff”
• Achieve Charting Zen With TauCharts
• Two New R Packages – qrencoder & passwordrandom
• Introducing the nominatim geocoding package
• Making Static/Interactive Voronoi Map Layers In ggplot/leaflet
• Roll Your Own Gist Comments Notifier in R
• A Path Towards Easier Map Projection Machinations with ggplot2
• Using the new ‘viridis’ colormap in R (thanks to Simon Garnier)
• R Package to access the Open Movie Database (OMDB) API
• Faceted “World Population by Income” Choropleths in ggplot
• Two pending features to metricsgraphics
• Get by with a little (R) help from your friends (at GitHub)
• DO Something Nifffty with R
• metricsgraphics 0.8.5 is now on CRAN!
• Animated US Hexbin Map of the Avian Flu Outbreak
• A quick, incomplete comparison of ggplot2 & rbokeh plotting idioms
• Scraping jQuery DataTable Programmatic JSON with R
• U.S. Drought Monitoring With Hexbin State Maps in R
• GeoJSON Hexagonal “Statebins” in R
• quotebox – An NPR-like Embedded Twitter Quote Generator
• New Fake Vulnerability Service – SVE
• More Airline Crashes via the Hadleyverse
• A look at airline crashes in R with googlesheets, dplyr & ggplot2
• Pre-CRAN waffle update – isotype pictograms
• Fixing Colors & Proportions in Jerusalem Post Election Graphics
• Making waffle charts in R (with the new ‘waffle’ package)
• Simple Lower US 48 Albers Maps & Local (no-API) City/State Geocoding in R
• Streamgraph htmlwidget version 0.7 released (adds support for markers & annotations)
• New R Package – ipapi (IP/Domain Geolocation)
• Streamgraph package now supports continuous x axis scale
• Introducing the streamgraph htmlwidget R Package
• SweetheaRstats
• A Step to the Right in R Assignments
• New release (0.7) of metricsgraphics htmlwidget — grids & rollovers
• NASA GISS’s Annual Global Temperature Anomaly Trends (dplyr/ggplot version)
• New R Package: cdcfluview — Retrieve Flu Data from CDC’s FluView Portal
• New R Package: metricsgraphics
• Making Static & Interactive Maps With ggvis (+ using ggvis maps w/shiny)
• Power Outage Impact Choropleths In 5 Steps in R (featuring rvest & RStudio “Projects”)
• Visualizing Historical & Most-likely First Snowfall Dates for U.S. Regions
• Moving The Earth (well, Alaska & Hawaii) With R
• GRANITESEC X!!!
• Spending Seized Assets – A State-by-State Per-capita Comparison in R
• Plot Me Like a Hurricane (a.k.a. animating historical North Atlantic basin tropical storm tracks)
• Blast From The Past Also Reveals A Bit Of (US) Postal HIstory
• Overcoming D3 Cartographic Envy With R + ggplot
• Seeing the (day)light with R
• Charting/Mapping the Scottish Vote with R (an rvest/dplyr/tidyr/TopoJSON/ggplot tutorial)
• An Alfred (OS X) Workflow for Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) Data
• R version of “An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables:”
• OUT FROM THE DEPTHS! @GraniteSec LIVES!
• New Gig!
• Rforecastio 1.3.0 Update
• Rforecastio 1.2.0 Bug-fix Update
• Rforecastio Package Update (1.1.0)
• Moving From system() calls to Rcpp Interfaces
• Getting Fit2Tcx Working on Mac OS X (10.9.x)
• Mapping the March 2014 California Earthquake with ggmap
• Guardian Words: Visualized
• Using Twitter as a Data Source For Monitoring Password Dumps
• One More (Yet-another?) Olympic Medal Live-tracking Shiny App
• Live Google Spreadsheet For Keeping Track Of Sochi Medals
• Data Driven Security Roundup: betaPERT, Shiny, Honeypots, Passwords & Reproducible Research
• Data-Driven Security (The Book) Update #ShamelessSelfPromotion
• Lies, Damn Lies, “Data Journalism” and Charts That Don’t Start at 0
• Change The Default “Shell…” Action In RStudio for OS X
• Announcing The Launch Of The Data Driven Security [Blog|Podcast]
• Points, Polygons and Power Outages
• Newest Font Obsession: Lato
• Slopegraph Workbench/Workshop in D3
• One More Time…Mapping Maine Power Outages with D3
• Back To Frank
• Mapping Power Outages in Maine Dynamically with Shiny/R
• Mapping Power Outages In Maine With R
• Preparing For The February 2014 Book Launch
• Visual Anatomy Of R Packages Used in Data Driven Security
• Alternative to Grouped Bar Charts in R
• Open Campgrounds In Maine During The Stupid Shutdown
• Visualizing “ObamaCare-related” Job Cuts
• Scraping Content From Google Groups
• Animated IRL Pirate Attacks In R
• Christian Science Monitor Text Layout (Single Page Full Article View)
• Send Mac OS Notifications From RStudio *Server*! (via Growl)
• Rforecastio Update
• Send Mac OS Notifications From R
• Rforecastio – Simple R Package To Access forecast.io Weather Data
• nizdos – Nest Thermometer Notifications And Data Logging In Python
• Use Fluid On MacOS To Build Per-RStudio Server “Dedicated” Clients
• ZeroAccess Bots Desperately Seeking Freedom (Visualization)
• Reverse IP Address Lookups With R (From Simple To Bulk/Asynchronous)
• IP Intelligence Lookup Chrome Extension
• Summer 2013 @GraniteSec Is ON!
• 2013 Summer Vacation Puzzle Challenge
• Re-imagining @panda_security’s Q1 2013 Report Pie Charts
• Secure360 (@Secure360) Data Analysis & Visualization Talk Resources #Sec360
• Slopegraph As A Service
• Wait Wait…Don’t Pwn Me! (SOURCE Boston) Transcript & Thank You!
• SOURCE Boston (@SOURCEConf) Data Analysis & Visualization Talk Resources #srcbos13
• Framing A One Data Vis A Day Challenge
• PC Maker Slopegraph + More Functional Table (One Last Time)
• Use @datawrapper For Slopegraphs
• Ugly Tables vs Slopegraphs : PC Maker Shipments & Marketshare
• Bahrain eGov Conference “Risk Reality” Slides
• Off to Bahrain
• It’s Never About The Security…
• A Wish for Snow in Spring
• Interactive Slopegraphs With Processing
• My Picks From #PyCon2013
• Chrome App for Tiny Tiny RSS
• π, Awareness, DataVis, VAST 2013, Moar data! & GReader Machinations
• Visualizing Risky Words — Part 4 (D3 Word Trees)
• Visualizing Risky Words — Part 3
• Visualizing Risky Words — Part 2
• Visualizing Risky Words
• Security Hobos
• Third Annual RSA PhöCon : Thursday, Feb 27 @ 1830 : Miss Saigon
• Follow up/Resources :: GRC-T18 – Data Analysis and Visualization for Security Professionals #RSAC
• RSA & Metricon Speaking & Dining Round Up
• R/netintel : Cross-check APT-1’s IP list with AlienVault Reputation DB (+ some graphs/analysis)
• [REDUX] Reassessing Cyber Risks as a Security Strategy
• Happy Valentine’s Day @mrshrbrmstr!
• Visualizing Malicious Clusters & Outliers
• Extended (Simple) ASN Graph Visualization Example [R to D3]
• Retrieve IP ASN & BGP Peer Info With R
• Winter Wind Flows
• Data Crunching Competitions
• Once More Into The [PRC Aggregated] Breaches
• River Post Dissected
• SHODAN API in R (With Examples)
• How Low Can It [The Mississsippi River] Go?
• Slopegraphs in R
• CVE Queries Right From Your Browser’s Address Bar
• Easier HTML Table-scraping For Scripts With Google Drive
• The ‘fing’ Corollary
• Forbes Graph Makeover Contest Entry #1
• Election Trackers Moved From Flash to HTML5
• Speaking At RSA Conference 2013!
• ‘Sandy’ Code Up On Github
• Watch Sandy in “R” (Including Forecast Cone)
• Watch “Sandy” In R
• Extracting OSE Firewall Alert Data From IMAP (Gmail) Mail To CSV With Python
• Get an R Data Frame from a MongoDB Query
• Putting Cybercrime [Infographics] Behind Bars
• “Show in Finder” Broken? Here’s One Potential Way To Fix It
• DIY ZeroAccess Analysis Lesson #1 : Treat GeoIP Results Lightly
• DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Analysis : So What?
• DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Visualizations :: Back To The Basics
• More DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Fun : jQuery/D3 Choropleths
• DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Plots
• Show Mac App Store Downloads Folder (and more!)
• Businessweek’s #Spiffy Rank-order Stock Market Slopegraph
• Building Jytter On OS X (tested on Mountain Lion)
• Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Make A Slopegraph
• VERIS Community :: JSON vs XML
• “Fibonacci” Graphing
• SSH Password Time-series Heatmap In D3
• Security & Privacy Of Mountain Lion’s Dictation Feature
• Honeypot Analytics : 500 Pretty Passwords
• Beach Blanket Tweetup(a.k.a. GraniteSec Tweetup #5)
• 2012 WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report Redux
• RIM of Destruction
• Honeypot Analytics
• Breach Reach : Google Insights
• Slopegraphs in Python – Failed States Index (Part 1)
• Tweet From Mountain Lion Notification Center
• WEIS 2012 :: Best of the Best
• Just Like The Federation
• Slopegraphs in Python – Gratuitous Raphaël Animations
• Slopegraphs in Python – Formatting Tweaks
• Slopegraphs Everywhere
• Slopegraphs in Python – Experimental Raphaël Support
• Slopegraphs in Python – Log Scales & Spam Data Analysis
• Slopegraphs in Python – Exploring Binning/Rounding
• Slopegraphs in Python – Slope Colors
• Slopegraphs in Python – More Output Tweaks
• Slopegraphs – The Quintessential Tufte GDP Example Revisited
• Slopegraphs in Python – The Great Refactor
• Slopegraphs in Python – Attention to Detail
• Slopegraphs In Python – colors, fonts & alignment
• An Homage To Flame
• Slopegraphs in Python
• New SecurID Soft Token Cloning Weakness : What’s The Risk?
• Feudal Japan’s Haiku Clubs A Pre-cursor of Modern-day Twitter?
• Mountain Lion, AirPlay, Screen Captures & DRM
• Off By One : The Importance Of Fact Checking Breach Reports
• Is Your Organization Ready For a Risk Management Program?
• Both Candidates Weak On [SSL] Security
• Angry Birds Keynote Theme
• Slaying the BEAST in nginx
• A Month With AfterShokz
• Getting Homebrew Working in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 with Xcode 4.4 Developer Preview 2
• ThinkStats … in R :: Example/Chapter 2 :: Example 2.1-2.3
• ThinkStats … in R :: Example 1.3
• ThinkStats … in R (including Example 1.2)
• Two Alfred Extensions For Retrieving IP Address Information
• An Infosec Hippocratic Oath
• Google Spreadsheet “importHTML” Rocks For Quick Analytics
• USDA Driving Towards Both Food Insecurity And Cyber-Insecurity?
• Getting Things Done : A Cobbler’s Tale
• Feed Link Has Moved
• Businessweek Infographic Illustrates The Pounding We Took In 2011
• Improve Your Security Metrics For $14.00USD
• NEISTU 3.0 : Rise of the Tweetup
• Three Resolutions For Web Developers
• Three Resolutions For Mac OS X Users
• An Open Letter to IT Vendors For 2012
• Still Not A Fan Of Paywalls
• Predictions? Humbug! Resolve Is Where It’s At
• You’re The Mayor of FUDville!
• DNSChanger Detector
• Why Didn’t They Just…?
• Mid/Northern New England Tweetup
• Your New Mega Security Program
• What Can We Learn From The @lulzsec senate.gov Hack Dump?
• WEIS 2011 :: Session 2 :: Identity :: Negative Information Looms Longer Than Positive Information
• WEIS 2011 :: Session 2 :: Identity :: Economic Tussles in Federated Identity Management
• WEIS 2011 :: Session 2 :: Identity :: Social Networks, Personalized Advertising & Privacy Controls
• WEIS 2011 :: Session 2 :: Identity :: The Inconvenient Truth About Web Certificates
• WEIS 2011 :: Session 1 :: Attacks :: The Underground Economy of Fake Antivirus Software
• WEIS 2011 :: Session 1 :: Attacks :: Sex, Lies & Cyber-crime Survey
• WEIS 2011 :: Session 1 :: Attacks :: Where Do All The Attacks Go?
• WEIS 2011 :: Session 1 :: Attacks :: The Impact of Immediate Disclosure on Attack Diffusion & Volume
• WEIS 2011 :: Keynote :: Dr Christopher Greer
• Dropbox 1.2.0 Experimental Build “Fixes” Security Issue
• RLRAA – Real Life Risk Assessment Acronyms
• A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
• dbClone “hack” for OS X
• “Flatten” HTML Content (i.e strip tags) in Cocoa/Objective-C [UPDATED] [BUG-FIX]
• Checkboxes Fail To Defend Maine Department of Conservation Against Attacks
• “Repairing” Strict Transport Security in Chrome on OS X
• Crossroad of ERM and the Parallels to IRM
• Remote Assistance/Information Gathering Aid – SupportDetails
• Behind The Mask : Supporting The New CIO Personas
• Micropwns :: Risk Microprobabilities for Infosec?
• Post-theft/loss Response & Recovery With Evernote
• Never A Better Time To Baseline
• The 5 Dysfunctions Of A Team
• Herding [Fire]sheep
• Fixing “Are you sure” In Media Upload (WordPress)
• Securing ‘su’ with Google Authenticator
• For Everyone Who Thought I Was Just A Zombie
• Metricon: Verification versus Validation
• Metricon: Measuring Metrics Programs (Why Aren’t We?)
• Metricon: Software Security’s Futures Plural
• Metricon: Name Server Log Data
• Metricon: Automated Incident Reporting
• Metricon: Critical Consumption Of Infosec Statistics
• Metricon: Evidence Based Risk Management
• “Web Development Is Dangerous”
• Quick Hits :: 2011-02-09
• Quick Hits :: 2011-02-08
• Quick Hits :: 2011-01-07
• ‘Spaces’ for Windows
• AwesomeChartJS Meets Microsoft Security Bulletins
• Backup Workflow
• HDMI Overscan Tweak For Wimpy Windows Font Display
• Bootstrapping The New Site

If you have any other data you need freed from the confines of the CDC FluView Flash portal, please file an issue & paste a screen shot (if you are comfortable with most browser Developer Tools views, even a dump of the request or “as cURL” URL would be awesome).