Avast me hearRties! (ok, enough of the pirate speak in a blog post) It wouldn’t be TLAPD without out some modest code & idea pilfering from Mark Bulling & Simon Raper. While those mateys did a fine job hoisting up some R code (your really didn’t think I’d stop with the pirate speak, did you?)… Continue reading
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Send Mac OS Notifications From RStudio *Server*! (via Growl)
Having received a couple follow-ups to the OS X notifications on RStudio Desktop for the Mac post, I was determined to find a quick hack to get remote notifications to OS X working from (at least) RStudio Server instances running on the same network. It turns out the hack was pretty straightforward just by using… Continue reading
Rforecastio Update
Thanks to a comment, I tweaked the data retrieval to ignore SSL cert errors. You can change that tweak back if you go through the pain of updating the SSL libraries on your Windows boxes (it doesn’t seem to be an issue on OS X/Linux). I also changed the date routines to use as.POSIXlt instead… Continue reading
Send Mac OS Notifications From R
2013-09-16 UPDATE: I took suggestions from a couple comments, expanded the function a bit and stuck it in a gist. See this comment for details. The data retrieval and computation operations are taking longer and longer as we start cranking through more security data and I’ll often let tasks run in the background whilst performing… Continue reading
Rforecastio – Simple R Package To Access forecast.io Weather Data
It doesn’t get much better for me than when I can combine R and weather data in new ways. I’ve got something brewing with my Nest thermostat and needed to get some current wx readings plus forecast data. I could have chosen a number of different sources or API’s but I wanted to play with… Continue reading
nizdos – Nest Thermometer Notifications And Data Logging In Python
I’ve had a Nest thermometer for a while now and it’s been an overall positive experience. It’s given me more visibility into our heating/cooling system usage, patterns and preferences; plus, it actually saved us money last winter. We try to avoid running the A/C during the summer, and it would have been really helpful if… Continue reading
My Picks From #PyCon2013
While you can (and should) view [all the presentations](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides) from #PyCon2013, here are my picks for the ones that interested me the most, as they focus on scaling, mapping, automation (both web & electronics) and data analysis: – [Chef: Why you should automate your web infrastructure](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/chef-why-you-should-automate-your-web-infrastructure-by-kate-heddleston) by Kate Heddleston – [Messaging at Scale at Instagram](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/messaging-at-scale-at-instagram-by-rick-branson)… Continue reading
Retrieve IP ASN & BGP Peer Info With R
This is part of a larger project I’m working on, but it’s useful enough to share (github version coming soon). The fine folks at @TeamCymru have a great service to map IP addresses to ASN/BGP information en masse. There are libraries for Python, Perl and other languages but none for R (that I could find)…. Continue reading