Category: R
Everything filed under R.
Calling [Compiled] Swift from R: Part 2
The previous post introduced the topic of how to compile Swift code for use in R using a useless, toy example. This one goes a bit further and makes a case for why one might want to do this by showing how to use one of Apple's machine…
SwiftR Switcheroo: Calling [Compiled] Swift from R!
I've been on a Swift + R bender for a while now, but have been envious of the pure macOS/iOS (et al) folks who get to use Apple's seriously ++good machine learning libraries, which are even more robust on the new M1 hardware (it's cool…
New SwiftR Chapter Up: Building an R-backed SwiftUI macOS App
Last week I introduced a new bookdown series on how to embed R into a macOS Swift…
Safety Checking Locally Installed Package URLs
I went completely daft this week and broke my months-long Twitter break due to the domestic terror event in my nation's capitol. I'll likely be resuming the break starting…
Bringing R to Swift on macOS
of some almost-natural "R" looking code (this is a…
Updated Apache Drill R JDBC Interface Package {sergeant.caffeinated} With {dbplyr} 2.x Compatibility
While the future of the Apache Drill ecosystem is somewhat in-play (MapR — a major sponsoring org for the project — is kinda dead ), I still use it almost daily (on my local home office cluster) to avoid handing over any more money to…
Apple Silicon + Big Sur + RStudio + R Field Report
It's been a while since I've posted anything R-related and, while this one will be brief, it may be of use to some R folks who have taken the leap into Big Sur and/or Apple Silicon. Stay to the end for an early Christmas…
Short & Sweet: {cdcfluview} 0.9.2 Is On Its Way to CRAN Mirrors
The CDC continues to "deliver" in 2020, this time by changing the JSON response of one of the hidden APIs that my {cdcfluview} package wraps. CDC: So…
Quick Hit: Speeding Up Data Frame Creation
(This is part 2 of n "quick hit" posts, each walking through some approaches to speeding up components of an iterative operation. Go here for part…
Quick Hit: Comparison of "Whole File Reading" Methods
(This is part 1 of n posts using this same data; n will likely be 2-3, and the posts are more around optimization than anything…