Category: OS X
Everything filed under OS X.
RSwitch 2.1.2b Bug-fix Release
RStudio is continuing to refine their ?? new product version string scheme, with the most recent change using something like the following for daily…
QuickLookR - A macOS QuickLook plugin for R Data files
I had tried to convert my data-saving workflows to feather but there have been issues with it supporting large files (that seem to be near resolution), so I've been continuing to use R Data files for local saving of processed/cleaned…
OS X XQuartz Vulnerability Test Using R
It's usually a good thing when my #rstats and infosec worlds collide. Unfortunately, this time it's a script that R folk running on OS X can use to see if they are using a version of XQuartz that has a nasty vulnerability in the framework…
An OS X R Task Runner for—and a Mini-R-centric review of—Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Editor
Microsoft's newfound desire to make themselves desirable to the hipster development community has caused them to make many things open and/or free of late. One of these manifestations is Visual Studio Code, an Atom-ish editor for us code…
Installing R on OS X - "100% Homebrew Edition"
In a previous post I provided "mouse-heavy" instructions for getting R running on your Mac. A few of the comments suggested that an "all Homebrew" solution may be preferable for some folks. Now, there are issues with this since getting…
Installing R on OS X
NOTE: The comments are a must read for this. Some excellent additional advice and "gotchas" by some super-helpful…
An Alfred (OS X) Workflow for Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) Data
I've operated a Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) [KMEBERWI7] off-and-on (hardware issues notwithstanding) for as long as I can remember, and I thought it was about time to finally do an Alfred↔PWS mashup. My personal…
Moving From system() calls to Rcpp Interfaces
Over on the Data Driven Security Blog there's a post on how to use Rcpp to interface with an external library (in this case ldns for DNS lookups). It builds on another post which uses system() to make a call to dig to lookup DNS TXT…
Getting Fit2Tcx Working on Mac OS X (10.9.x)
Andreas Diesner's #spiffy Fit2Tcx command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT FIT files to TCX for further…
Change The Default "Shell..." Action In RStudio for OS X
RStudio is my R development environment of choice and I work primarily on/in Mac OS X. While it's great that Apple provides a built-in Terminal application, I prefer to use iTerm 2 when I need to do work at a shell. The fine folks at…