Believe it or not, there are two [1] [2] questions on @StackOverflowR about how to make QR codes in R. I personally think QR codes are kinda hokey, but who am I to argue with pressing needs of the #rstats community? I found libqrencode and it’s highly brew-able and apt-able (probably yum-able, too, if you lean that way), so it was super-easy to crank out an Rcpp-based package for it.
There are a few functions in the package, but the following would be my guess as to how most folks would use it (well, two folks, anyway):
library(qrencoder) library(raster) par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) image(qrencode_raster("http://rud.is/b"), asp=1, col=c("white", "black"), axes=FALSE, xlab="", ylab="")
Since @quominus threw down yet-another gauntlet (in our own “battle of the hoRnbuRg”) after my qrencoder announcement:
@hrbrmstr my latest package will be done in 20 minutes. FORE.
— Oliver Keyes (@quominus) August 2, 2015
I had no choice but to also crank out another package that interfaces with the PasswordRandom API. There’s at least some fairly obvious real utility to this one:
library(passwordrandom) # current verison packageVersion("passwordrandom") #> [1] '0.0.0.9000' random_chars() #> [1] "m" "M" "Z" "p" "G" "B" "E" "m" "B" "v" random_doubles() #> [1] 82.6272 89.6146 1.2591 77.9003 62.5740 68.8216 61.9789 37.9001 20.6352 4.6343 random_guids() #> [1] "fdf5d58e-ebe9-4db3-b429-303e8a5e1fdf" "20ad94f9-a232-4fa8-91c6-ba21e9925b96" #> [3] "d44c1c4b-0117-43c3-b77c-89bc33caf59f" "500ce633-1197-4c92-aff4-1eac94fd2d8d" #> [5] "13b1a1a0-f7fa-40b6-a9da-9e445ac26d2b" "06362286-8d5b-4dfc-9283-df564291120d" #> [7] "36dbb258-ede0-4a8a-b416-5609f11c8be1" "9b27dcca-26d7-4467-9a54-3862ccbd06cf" #> [9] "4f53fe11-d4f0-4c01-a2fc-97e35983d567" "b1f0df88-e790-4d48-8683-ebe68db9f0ca" random_ints() #> [1] 82 17 97 20 87 91 57 42 22 62 random_passwords() #> [1] "RoeXO2{75bh" "RiuFE6'10hj" "TauTY1)92pj" "XooHO8%87rv" "MooJA1^40np" "KyaDU3\\35tr" "KiaQY0>91nr" #> [8] "XoeGO1%68nt" "KeoFI0>33cc" "VeaDI2$51jc"
If you’re so inclined, kick the tyres of either/both and drop a note here or issue/feature request on either repo.
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But is this really a random password in the true sense of the word? If I know the paradigm — X characters, with certain types of characters in positions X1, X2, X(n-1) — then isn’t it algorithmically much easier to brute-force crack the password? The code here suggests passwords of 11 characters, beginning with a capital consonant with, e.g., a form of punctuation in position 7 and numerals in positions 6, 8, 9. Knowledge of the script to generate the password provides a useful Rosetta Stone for engineering an attack against the password.
Passwords with a fixed internal positional logic seem much less strong than a truly randomized password. My $0.02.
(you can change the formula/scheme, that’s part of the feature set of the site & API)
Great work.
U are my hero :)
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