Category: R
Everything filed under R.
Make WSJ-esque Über Tuesday Democrat Delegate Cartograms in R with {catchpole}
For folks who are smart enough not to go near Twitter, I've been on a hiatus from the platform insofar as reading the Twitter feed goes. "Why" isn't the subject of this post so I won't go into it, but I've broken this half-NYE resolution…
BIMI Up, Scotty! A look at Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) Adoption with R and the Alexa Top 1m
It seems that the need for MX, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC records for modern email setups were just not enough acronyms (and setup tasks) for some folks, resulting in the creation of yet-another-acronym --- BIMI, or, Brand Indicators for Message…
Prying ".R" Script Files Away from Xcode (et al) on macOS
As the maintainer of RSwitch --- and developer of my own (for personal use) macOS, iOS, watchOS, iPadOS and tvOS apps --- I need the full Apple Xcode install around (more R-focused macOS folk can get away with just the command-line tools…
Monitoring Website SSL/TLS Certificate Expiration Times with R, {openssl}, {pushoverr}, and {DT}
macOS R users who tend to work on the bleeding edge likely noticed some downtime at <mac.r-project.org> this past weekend. Part of the issue was an SSL/TLS certificate expiration situation. Moving forward, we can monitor this with R using…
Convert Apple Card PDF Statements to Tidy Data (i.e. for CSV/Excel/database export)
I saw this CNBC article on an in-theory browser client-side-only conversion utility for taking Apple Card PDF statements and turning them into CSV…
Writing Frictionless R Package Wrappers — Building A Basic R Package
Before we start wrapping foreign language code we need to make sure that basic R packages can be created. If you've followed along from the previous post you have everything you need to get started here. Just to make sure , you should be…
Writing Frictionless R Package Wrappers — Introduction
The R language and RStudio IDE are a powerful combination for "getting stuff done", and one aspect of R itself that makes it especially useful is the ability to use it with other programming languages via a robust foreign language…
Short Attention Span Theatre: Reproducing Axios' "1 Big Thing" Google Trends 2019 News In Review with {ggplot2}
I woke up to Axios' "1 Big Thing" ridgeline chart showing the crazy that was the 2019 news…
Using #rstats to Help Santa Deliver Presents This Christmas!
The right jolly old elves over at Alteryx created a "Santalytics" challenge back in 2016 to see if their community members could help Santa deliver presents to kids all across the…
Quickly Create (Mostly) Responsive HTML Columns With {htmltools}
I had need to present a wall-of-text to show off a giant list of SSL certificate alternate names and needed the entire list to fit on one slide (not really for reading in full, but to show just how many there were in a way that a simple…