Category: R
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A new 'boto3' Amazon Athena client wrapper with dplyr async query support
A previous post explored how to deal with Amazon Athena queries asynchronously. The function presented is a beast , though it is on purpose (to provide options for…
Alleviating AWS Athena Aggravation with Asynchronous Assistance
I've blogged about how to use Amazon Athena with R before and if you are a regular Athena user, you've likely run into a situation where you prepare a dplyr chain, fire off a collect() and then…
Visualizing macOS App Usage with a Little Help from osqueryr & mactheknife
Both my osqueryr and macthekinfe packages have had a few updates and I wanted to put together a fun example (it being Friday, and all) for what you can do with them. All my packages are now on GitHub and GitLab and I'll be maintaining them…
Freeing PDF Data to Account for the Unaccounted
I've mentioned @stiles before on the blog but for those new to my blatherings, Matt is a top-notch data journalist with the @latimes and currently stationed in South Korea. I can only imagine how much busier his life has gotten since that…
Build httr Functions Automagically from Manual Browser Requests with the middlechild Package
You can catch a bit of the @rOpenSci 2018 Unconference experience at home w with this short-ish 'splainer video on how to use the new middlechild package (https://github.com/ropenscilabs/middlechild) & mitmproxy to automagically create…
Running RStudio (1.2) Background Jobs
The forthcoming RStudio 1.2 release has a new "Jobs" feature for running and managing background R…
Making World Tile Grid-Grids
A colleague asked if I would blog about how I crafted the grid of world tile grids in this post and I accepted the challenge. The technique isn't too hard as it just builds on the initial work by Jon Schwabish and a handy file made by…
Hello, Dorling! (Creating Dorling Cartograms from R Spatial Objects + Introducing Prism Skeleton)
After seeing Fira Sans in action in presentations at eRum 2018 I felt compelled to add hrbrthemes support for it so I made a firasans ? extension to it that uses Fira Sans Condensed and Fira Code fonts for ggplot2…
OS Secrets Exposed: Extracting Extended File Attributes and Exploring Hidden Download URLs With The xattrs Package
Most modern operating systems keep secrets from you in many ways. One of these ways is by associating extended file attributes with files. These attributes can serve useful purposes. For instance, macOS uses them to identify when files…
The Fix Is In: Finding infix functions inside contributed R package "utilities" files
Regular readers will recall the " utility belt " post from back in April of this year. This is a follow-up to a request made asking for a list of all the % infix functions in those…