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 mower). We ended up getting a model from John Deere and the… Continue reading
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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 author(s): Fluency on the command line is a skill often neglected or considered arcane, but it improves your flexibility and productivity… Continue reading
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 begat the (not-on-CRAN) {dnsflare} package. There are actually two… Continue reading
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 browser. I tweeted some pix and data but not everyone is on Twitter so I’m just posting a blog-blurb here with the code and data links. Code is below… Continue reading
Mapping Tornado Alley with R
I caught a re-tweet of this tweet by @harry_stevens: THREAD: I wrote a post on @observablehq about a map I made today. It shows a typical day in the life of a graphics journalist: You never know what problems you'll have to solve on deadline! https://t.co/yRhW1wbLxN #d3js #dataviz 1/7 pic.twitter.com/7N6mmK0nz3 — Harry Stevens (@Harry_Stevens) May… Continue reading
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 respectively). I hadn’t touched QuickLookR🔗 or {rdatainfo}🔗 at all since 2016 since it was really just an example… Continue reading
Quick Hit: Scraping javascript-“enabled” Sites with {htmlunit}
I’ve mentioned {htmlunit} in passing before, but did not put any code in the blog post. Since I just updated {htmlunitjars} to the latest and greatest version, now might be a good time to do a quick demo of it. The {htmlunit}/{htmunitjars} packages make the functionality of the HtmlUnit Java libray available to R. The… Continue reading
Lost In [SQL] Translation: Charting d[b]plyr Mapped SQL Function Support Across All Backends
Like more posts than I care to admit, this one starts innocently enough with a tweet by @gshotwell: Is there a reference document somewhere of which dplyr commands work on various database backends? #rstats — Gordon Shotwell (@gshotwell) April 9, 2019 Since I use at least 4 different d[b]plyr backends every week, this same question… Continue reading