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Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Package
The NPR Visuals Team created and maintains a javascript library that makes it super easy to embed iframes on web pages and have said documents still be…
Quick and Clean DMARC Record Processing with "Inline" Rcpp
Much of what I need to do for work-work involves using tools that are (for the moment) not in R. Today, I needed to test the validity of (and other processing on) DMARC records and I'm loathe to either reinvent the wheel or reticulate bits…
The Friday #rstats PuzzleR : 2018-01-26
Time for another look at what's new and interesting in the #rstats world with the help of Peter Meissner's (@marvindpr) crossword.r ?…
The Friday #rstats PuzzleR : 2018-01-19
He also made a super spiffy javascript library to pair with it, which can turn crossword model output into an interactive…
Bitcoin (World Map) Bubbles
We're doing some interesting studies (cybersecurity-wise, not finance-wise) on digital currency networks at work-work and --- while I'm loathe to create a geo-map from IPv4 geolocation data ---…
Can't Stop at 21: Twitter Recipe #22 — Tying Up Loose Threads
NOTE: The likelihood of this recipe being added to the recent practice bookdown book is slim, but I'll try to keep the same format for the blog…
A bookdown "Hello World" : Twenty-one (minus two) Recipes for Mining Twitter with rtweet
The new year begins with me being on the hook to crank out a book on advanced web-scraping in R by July (more on that in a future blog post). The bookdown ? package seemed to be the best way to go about doing this but I had only played…
R⁶ — Capture Tweets with tweet_shot()
that spawned from Maëlle's recent look-back post turned into a quick function for capturing an image of a Tweet/thread using webshot , rtweet , magick and glue…
2017. Quantified. In. R.
2017 is nearly at an end. We humans seem to need these cycles to help us on our path forward and have, throughout history, used these annual demarcation points as a time of reflection of what was, what is an what shall come…
New Package swatches is Now on CRAN
It's been a long time coming, but swatches ? is now on CRAN…