>UPDATE: I rejiggered the function to actually now, y’know, do what it says it should do :-) A friend, we’ll call him _Alen_ put a call out for some function that could take an image and produce a per-row “histogram” along the edge for the number of filled-in points. That requirement eventually scope-creeped to wanting… Continue reading
NOTE: you won’t need to use this function if you use the [development version](https://github.com/yihui/knitr) of `knitr` Winston Chang released his [`webshot`](https://github.com/wch/webshot) package to CRAN this past week. The package wraps the immensely useful [`phantomjs`](http://phantomjs.org/) utility and makes it dirt simple to capture whole or partial web pages in R. One beautiful bonus feature of `webshot`… Continue reading
I’m an avid NPR listener also follow a number of their programs and people on Twitter. I really dig their [quotable](https://github.com/nprapps/quotable) tweets. Here’s a sample of a recent one: Minn. state senators cannot look other senators in the eye during floor debate. @ailsachang http://t.co/SfQBq4yyHQ pic.twitter.com/DNHGEiVA9j — NPR News (@nprnews) May 8, 2015 I asked @brianboyer… Continue reading