Category: R
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Homebrew 2.0.0 Released == homebrewanalytics package updated
A major new release of Homebrew has landed and now includes support for Linux as well as Windows! via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. There are overall stability and speed improvements baked in as well. The aforelinked notification has…
Fast Static Maps Built with R
We can do all of that in R with the help of a couple packages and by using a free geocoding service which will also allow us to put more data on the map, albeit with some extra work due to it returning weird values for Hawaii…
Quick Hit: Using seymour to Subscribe to your Git[la|hu]b Repo Issues in Feedly
The seymour ? Feedly API package has been updated to support subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds. Previously the package was intended to just treat your Feedly as a data source, but there was a compelling use case for enabling subscription…
Quick Hit: Automating Production Graphics Uploads in R Markdown Documents with googledrive
As someone who measures all kinds of things on the internet as part of his $DAYJOB, I can say with some authority that huge swaths of organizations are using cloud-services such as Google Apps, Dropbox and Office 365 as part of their…
hrbrthemes 0.6.0 on CRAN + Other In-Development Package News
Version 0.6.0 of the hrbrthemes ? package should be hitting a CRAN mirror near you soon. Apart from some general documentation and code cleanup this release includes the dark theme folks have been seeing in blog posts and tweets over the…
splashr 0.6.0 Now Uses the CRAN-nascent stevedore Package for Docker Orchestration
The splashr package [ srht | GL | GH ] — an alternative to Selenium for javascript-enabled/browser-emulated web scraping — is now at version 0.6.0 (still in dev-mode but on its way to CRAN in the next 14…
Roll Your Own Federal Government Shutdown-caused SSL Certificate Expiration Monitor in R
By now, even remote villages on uncharted islands in the Pacific know that the U.S. is in the midst of a protracted partial government shutdown. It's having real impacts on the lives of Federal government workers but they aren't the only…
Waffle Geoms & Other Miscellaneous In-Development Package Updates
More than just sergeant has been hacked on recently, so here's a run-down of various ?…
On the Road to 0.8.0 — Some Additional New Features Coming in the sergeant Package
It was probably not difficult to discern from my previous Drill-themed post that I'm fairly excited about the Apache Drill 1.15.0 release. I've rounded out most of the existing corners for it in preparation for a long-overdue CRAN update…
'data:' Scraping & Chart Reproduction : Arrows of Environmental Destruction
Today's RSS feeds picked up this article by Marianne Sullivan, Chris Sellers, Leif Fredrickson, and Sarah Lamdanon on the woeful state of enforcement actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While there has definitely…