Category: R
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Apache Drill 1.15.0 + sergeant 0.8.0 = pcapng Support, Proper Column Types & Mounds of New Metadata
To ring in the new year the Drill team knocked out a new 1.15.0 release with a cadre of new functionality…
Exploring 2018 R-bloggers & R Weekly Posts with Feedly & the 'seymour' package
Well, 2018 has flown by and today seems like an appropriate time to take a look at the landscape of R bloggerdom as seen through the eyes of readers of R-bloggers and R Weekly . We'll do this via a new package designed to make it easier to…
Certifiably Gone Phishing
Phishing is [still] the primary way attackers either commit a primary criminal act (i.e. phish a target to, say, install ransomware) or is the initial vehicle used to gain a foothold in an organization so they can perform other criminal…
Tis the Season to Check your SSL/TLS Cipher List Thrice (RCurl/curl/openssl)
The libcurl library (the foundational library behind the RCurl and curl packages) has switched to using OpenSSL's default ciphers since version 7.56.0 (October 4 2017). If you're a regular updater of curl / httr you should be fairly…
Use GitHub Vulnerability Alerts to Keep Users of Your R Packages Safe
Despite their now inherent evil status, GitHub has some tools other repository aggregators do not. One such tool is the free vulnerability alert service which will scan repositories for outdated+vulnerable…
Escaping the macOS 10.14 (Mojave) Filesystem Sandbox with R / RStudio
If you're an R/RStudio user who has migrated to Mojave (macOS 10.14) or are contemplating migrating to it, you will likely eventually run into an issue where you're trying to access resources that are in Apple's new hardened filesystem…
GeoJSON Version of CBC Quebec Ridings Hex Cartograms with Example Usage in R
The CBC covered the recent (as of the original post-time on this blog entry) Quebec elections and used a well-crafted hex grid map to display…
Quick Hit: Using the New Equal Earth Projection in R
In my semi-daily run of brew update I noticed that proj4 had been updated to 5.2. I kinda " squeee "'d since (as the release notes show ) the Equal Earth projection was added to it ( +proj=eqearth…
Taking a Tour of the Pirate Ship 'GitHub DMCA' with R
Despite having sailed through the core components of this year's Talk Like A Pirate Day R post a few months ago, time has been an enemy of late so this will be a short post that others can build off of, especially since there's lots more…
Access the Internet Archive Advanced Search/Scrape API with wayback (+ links to a new vignette & pkgdown site)
The wayback ? package has had an update to more efficiently retrieve mementos and added support for working with the Internet Archive's advanced search+scrape API…