I spent some time this morning upgrading the JDBC driver (and changing up some supporting code to account for changes to it) for my metis package🔗 which connects R up to Amazon Athena via RJDBC. I’m used to JDBC and have to deal with Java separately from R so I’m also comfortable with Java, JDBC… Continue reading
This week’s edition of Data is Plural had two really fun data sets. One is serious fun (the first comprehensive data set on U.S. evictions, and the other I knew about but had forgotten: The Federal Register Executive Order (EO) data set(s). The EO data is also comprehensive as the summary JSON (or CSV) files… Continue reading
@mkjcktzn asked if one can access Feedly “Saved for Later” items via the API. The answer is “Yes!”, and it builds off of that previous post. You’ll need to read it and get your authentication key (still no package 😞) before continuing. We’ll use most (I think “all”) of the code from the previous post,… Continue reading
I apologize up-front for using bad words in this post. Said bad words include “Facebook”, “Mark Zuckerberg” and many referrals to entities within the U.S. Government. Given the topic, it cannot be helped. I’ve also left the R tag on this despite only showing some ggplot2 plots and Markdown tables. See the end of the… Continue reading
@RMHoge asked the following on Twitter: Hello #rstats hyve mind! Is there a package that reads epub into R? I can not find any, I now convert to text and parse the text but you sort of lose the structure of the text. Pinging @dataandme @hrbrmstr — Roel (@RMHoge) April 12, 2018 Here’s one way… Continue reading
Many R package authors (including myself) lump a collection of small, useful functions into some type of utils.R file and usually do not export the functions since they are (generally) designed to work on package internals rather than expose their functionality via the exported package API. Just like Batman’s utility belt, which can be customized… Continue reading
Modern MacBook Pros have a fairly useless (c’mon, admit it!) “Touch Bar” that did little more than cause severe ire in the developer community after turning a full-fledged, tactile Escape key into a hollow version if its former self. Having said, that, some apps do make OK use of it, with Fantastical and Omnigraffle being… Continue reading
There’s a yuge chance you’re reading this post (at least initially) on R-Bloggers right now (though you should also check out R Weekly and add their live feed to your RSS reader pronto!). It’s a central “watering hole” for R folks and is read by many (IIRC over 20,000 Feedly users have it in their… Continue reading