Category: R
Everything filed under R.
Dissecting R Package "Utility Belts"
Many R package authors (including myself) lump a collection of small, useful functions into some type of utils.R file and usually do not export the functions since they are (generally) designed to work on package internals rather than…
Adding macOS Touch Bar Support to RStudio
Modern MacBook Pros have a fairly useless ( c'mon, admit it! ) "Touch Bar" that did little more than cause severe ire in the developer community after turning a full-fledged, tactile Escape key into a hollow version if its former…
Exploring R-Bloggers Posts with the Feedly API
There's a yuge chance you're reading this post (at least initially) on R-Bloggers right now (though you should also check out R Weekly and add their live feed to your RSS reader pronto!). It's a central "watering hole" for R folks and is…
More Options For Querying DNS From R with 1.1.1.1
You have to have been living under a rock to not know about Cloudflare's new 1.1.1.1 DNS offering. I won't go into "privacy", "security" or "speed" concepts in this post since that's a pretty huge topic to distill for folks given the, now,…
Compute/Visualize Drive Space Consumption of Your Installed R Packages
The fs package makes it super quick and easy to find out just how much "package hoarding" you've been…
R⁶ — Capturing [YouTube] Captions
@yoniceedee suggested I look at the Cambridge Analytics "whistleblower" testimony…
On MIMEs, software versions and web site promiscuity (a.k.a. three new packages to round out the week)
A quick Friday post to let folks know about three in-development R packages that you're encouraged to poke the tyres o[fn] and also jump in and file issues or PRs…
Steel-ing a Makeover from Tariffic Post
(FWIW I think I even caused myself pain due to the title of this blog…
Handling Semantic Version Strings Like a Boss with the semver Package
I work with internet-scale data and do my fair share of macro-analyses on vulnerabilities. I use the R semver package for most of my work and wanted to blather on a bit about it since it's super-helpful for this work and doesn't get the…
Comparing 2017 Maine Lobster Landings To Historical Landings
Tis the season for finding out how well Maine fisherfolk did last year; specifically, Maine…