I saw this CNBC article on an in-theory browser client-side-only conversion utility for taking Apple Card PDF statements and turning them into CSV files. Since I (a) never trust any browser or site and (b) the article indicated that there is a $5 fee to avoid the “single random transaction removal”, I felt compelled to… Continue reading
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Writing Frictionless R Package Wrappers — Building A Basic R Package
Before we start wrapping foreign language code we need to make sure that basic R packages can be created. If you’ve followed along from the previous post you have everything you need to get started here. Just to make sure, you should be able to fire up a new RStudio session and execute the following… Continue reading
Yeast-raised Apple Cider Doughnuts
Offspring #4 eats pretty healthy, normally, but likes to indulge in sugary confections on occasion. He was a big help clearing away the massive amount of snow that accumulated in the last winter storm of 2019 so I decided to start the new year off by making him (and us) a batch of homemade doughnuts… Continue reading
Writing Frictionless R Package Wrappers — Introduction
The R language and RStudio IDE are a powerful combination for “getting stuff done”, and one aspect of R itself that makes it especially useful is the ability to use it with other programming languages via a robust foreign language interface capability1. The term “foreign language” refers to another programming language such as C, C++,… Continue reading
Short Attention Span Theatre: Reproducing Axios’ “1 Big Thing” Google Trends 2019 News In Review with {ggplot2}
I woke up to Axios’ “1 Big Thing” ridgeline chart showing the crazy that was the 2019 news cycle: and, I decided to reproduce it in {ggplot2}. Getting The Data First, I had to find the data. The Axios chart is interactive, so I assumed the visualization was built on-load. It was, but the data… Continue reading
Using #rstats to Help Santa Deliver Presents This Christmas!
The right jolly old elves over at Alteryx created a “Santalytics” challenge back in 2016 to see if their community members could help Santa deliver presents to kids all across the globe. They posted data for four challenges along with solutions and I’ve made a git repo & RStudio project with the challenges and solves… Continue reading
Quickly Create (Mostly) Responsive HTML Columns With {htmltools}
I had need to present a wall-of-text to show off a giant list of SSL certificate alternate names and needed the entire list to fit on one slide (not really for reading in full, but to show just how many there were in a way that a simple count would not really convey). Keynote, PowerPoint,… Continue reading
Spelunking macOS ‘ScreenTime’ App Usage with R
Apple has brought Screen Time to macOS for some time now and that means it has to store this data somewhere. Thankfully, Sarah Edwards has foraged through the macOS filesystem for us and explained where these bits of knowledge are in her post, Knowledge is Power! Using the macOS/iOS knowledgeC.db Database to Determine Precise User… Continue reading