Category: R
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Wrapping Up Exploration of John Deere's MowerPlus Database
I did another twitter thread on the aforeblogged MowerPlus database as I explored the tables after a second mow to determine what identified a unique mowing "session" (using John Deere's…
Reader Challenge: Have Some Fun with Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote Subtitles & Show Your Work
I was pretty brutal to Apple earlier this week in a Twitter thread that I tried to craft so it occurred in-line with the WWDC live stream (which might be something you want to remember as/if you read on). I really don't care about…
Make Multi-point "dumbbell" Plots in ggplot2
A user of the {ggalt} package recently posted a question about how to add points to a geomdumbbell() plot. For now, this is not something you can do with geomdumbbell() but with a bit of data wrangling you can do this in a pretty…
Trawling Through iOS Backups For Treasure (a.k.a. How to fish for target files in iOS backups) with R
In a recent previous post I brazenly talked over the "hard parts" of how I got to the target SQLite file that houses "mowing history" for what has become my weekend obsession. So, we'll cover just how to do that (find things in iOS…
Quick Hit: Handling Cocoa Core Data Timestamps in R
For the first time ever we got a new riding mower this weekend. We've always haggled to keep the one sellers were using with any given house we've purchased over the years (that was big enough for a yard that "requires" a riding…
Making a Command Line HTML Rendering Script for "The Art of the Command Line" (in R)
The Feedly category I have setup for git-stalking has indicated a fairly massive interest in Joshua Levy's The Art of the Command Line . What is "The Art of the Command Line"? To quote the…
Two New Ways to Make DNS over HTTPS Queries in R
A fair bit of time ago the {gdns} package made its way to CRAN to give R users the ability to use Google's (at that time) nascent support for DNS over HTTPS (DoH). A bit later on Cloudflare also provided a global DoH endpoint and that…
Add Dressbarn to the Continued Retailpocalypse
I've talked about the retailpocalypse before and this morning I was greeted with the news about Dressbarn closing all 650 stores as I fired up a…
Mapping Tornado Alley with R
Harry's thread and Observable post are great on their own and both show the power and utility of Observable javascript…
Quick Hit: Updates to QuickLookR and {rdatainfo}
I'm using GitUgh links here b/c the issue was submitted there. Those not wishing to be surveilled by Microsoft can find the macOS QuickLook plugin project and {rdatainfo} project in SourceHut and GitLab ( ~hrbrmstr and hrbrmstr accounts…