Author: hrbrmstr
Everything written by hrbrmstr.
Fully Native M1/Apple Silicon R Setup
Presented without much commentary since I stopped once {ggrepel} and {graphlayouts} failed (RStudio doesn't support it yet, either, which I…
Getting a Handle on macOS App Entitlements with R
If you've been following me around the internets for a while you've likely heard me pontificate about the need to be aware of and reduce — when possible — your personal "cyber" attack surface. One of the ways you can do that is to install…
Amazon Athena {dbplyr} Implicit Usage of Presto Functions and Making JSON Casting Great Again
I was chatting with a fellow Amazon Athena user and the topic of using Presto functions such as approxdistinct() via {d[b]plyr} came up and it seems it might not be fully common knowledge that any non-already translated function is passed…
Parler Whack-a-Mole
(this is an unrolled Twitter thread converted to the blog since one never knows how long content will be preserved anywhere…
Making It Easier To Experiment With Compiled Swift Code In R
The past two posts have (lightly) introduced how to use compiled Swift code in R, but they've involved a bunch of "scary" command line machinations and…
Calling [Compiled] Swift from R: Part 2
The previous post introduced the topic of how to compile Swift code for use in R using a useless, toy example. This one goes a bit further and makes a case for why one might want to do this by showing how to use one of Apple's machine…
SwiftR Switcheroo: Calling [Compiled] Swift from R!
I've been on a Swift + R bender for a while now, but have been envious of the pure macOS/iOS (et al) folks who get to use Apple's seriously ++good machine learning libraries, which are even more robust on the new M1 hardware (it's cool…
Soon May the Vendorman Come
There was an org that didn't see The data exfil hacking spree. A patch went up, our guard was down, Oh blow, SolarWinds,…
New SwiftR Chapter Up: Building an R-backed SwiftUI macOS App
Last week I introduced a new bookdown series on how to embed R into a macOS Swift…
Nos Autem Non In Antebellum; Bella Iam Inceperat
Every decent human (which excludes 74,222,958 ?? who voted for this, now 100% undeniable, traitor) with knowledge of this past week's tragic events is likely still processing — and will be for a while — what happened; I am no exception.…