Category: R
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htmlunitjars Updated to 2.34.0
The in-dev htmlunit package for javascript-"enabled" web-scraping without the need for Selenium, Splash or headless Chrome relies on the HtmlUnit library and said library just released version 2.34.0 with a wide array of changes that…
drat All The ?! : Enabling Easier Package Discovery and Installation with Your Own CRAN-like Repo for Your Packages
I've got a work-in-progress drat -ified CRAN-like repo for (eventually) all my packages over at CINC ? ("CINC is not CRAN" and it also sounds like "sync"). This is in parallel with a co-location/migration of all my packages to SourceHut…
Cloudy with a chance of Caffeinated Query Orchestration - New rJava Wrappers for AWS Athena SDK for Java
There are two fledgling rJava-based R packages that enable working with the AWS SDK for…
I Just Wanted The Data : Turning Tableau & Tidyverse Tears Into Smiles with Base R (An Encoding Detective Story)
Those outside the Colonies may not know that Payless—a national chain that made footwear affordable for millions of 'Muricans who can't spare $100.00 USD for a pair of shoes their 7 year old will outgrow in a year— is closing . CNBC also…
In Dev: WiGLE Your Way Into A Hotspot with wiglr
read the code (to ensure R package developers are pwning or tracking you),and …after putting your "Encoded for use" token in the WIGLEAPIKEY environment variable…start…
Conquering Caffeinated Amazon Athena with the metis Trio of Packages
I must preface this post with the posit that if you're doing anything interactive() with Amazon Athena you should seriously consider just using their free ODBC drivers as it's the easiest way to wire them up to R DBI- and tidyverse-wise.…
Using the ropendata R Package to Access Petabytes of Free Internet Telemetry Data from Rapid7
I've got a post up over at $DAYJOB's blog on using the ropendata ? package to access the ginormous and ever-increasing amount of internet telemetry (scan) data via the Rapid7 Open Data API…
Quick Hit: Speeding Up a Slow/Mundane Task with a Little Rcpp
Over at $DAYJOB's blog I've queued up a post that shows how to use our new ropendata ? package to work with our Open Data portal's API. I'm not super-sure when it's going to be posted so keep an RSS reader fixed on https://blog.rapid7.com/…
Send UDP Probes (with payloads) and Receive/Process Responses in R
We worked pretty hard over at $DAYJOB on helping to quantify and remediate a fairly significant configuration weakness in Ubiquiti network work gear attached to the internet…
R Package Update: urlscan
The urlscan ? package (an interface to the urlscan.io API) is now at version 0.2.0 and supports urlscan.io's authentication requirement when submitting a link for analysis. The service is handy if you want to learn about the details — all…