Category: R
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2022 Hanukkah of Data • Puzzle 1
Visiting #2 and doing some $WORK -work, but intrigued with Hanukkah of Data since Puzzle 0 was solvable with a ZIP password cracker (the calendar date math seemed too trivial to bother…
Bootstrapping An {ojs} Quarto Document With An Observable Notebook
Quarto is amazing! And, it's eating the world! OK. Perhaps not the entire world. But it's still amazing…
Introducing {weatherkit}: The Eventual Replacement R Package for {darksky}
My { darksky } package has been around for years, now, and the service that powers it was purchased by Apple before the pandemic. The DarkSky API is slated to be shuttered in December of this year and is being replaced by Apple's…
Using Leonardo SVG Palettes in R
In today's newsletter Leonardo , an open source project and free online too from Adobe that lets you make great and accessible color palettes for use in UX/UI design and data visualizations! You can read the one newsletter section to get a…
Rusty HTML Minifying In R with {rextendr}
In my M-F newsletter today I mentioned an awesome Rust-based HTML/JS/CSS minifier library that also include batteries for a few other…
Keeping Those SSH Keys Safe
I came across a neat site that uses a Golang wasm function called from javascript on the page to help you see if your GitHub public SSH keys are "safe". What does "safe" mean? This is what the function checks for (via that…
Update On ESC/POS Package Work
The morning before work was super productive and there is a nigh-complete DSL for ESC/POS commands along with the ability to just print {ggplot2}/{grid}…
Turning {ggplot2} Into a PoS (Point-of-Sale) System
At the end of March, I caught a fleeting tweet that showcased an Epson thermal receipt printer generating a new "ticket" whenever a new GitHub issue was filed on a repository. @aschmelyun documents it well in this blog post . It's a pretty…
A zsh Helper Script For Updating macOS RStudio Daily Electron + Quarto CLI Installs
RStudio's macOS Electron build is coming along quite nicely and is blazing fast on Apple…
Starting 2022 Off With A Fairly Complex {ggplot2} Recreation Plot
The New York Times had a [tragic] story on Covid deaths today and one of their plots really stuck with me for how well it told that part of the…