The last post showed how to work with the macOS mdls command line XML output, but with {swiftr} we can avoid the command line round trip by bridging the low-level Spotlight API (which mdls uses) directly in R via Swift. If you’ve already played with {swiftr} before but were somewhat annoyed at various boilerplate elements… Continue reading
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Help Your Mac Stand Between The Darkness And The Light with GreyWatch
Greynoise helps security teams focus on potential threats by reducing the noise from logs, alerts, and SIEMs. They constantly watch for badly behaving internet hosts, keep track of the benign ones, and use this research to classify IP addresses. Teams can use these classifications to only focus on things that (potentially) matter. They also have… Continue reading
Making It Easier To Experiment With Compiled Swift Code In R
The past two posts have (lightly) introduced how to use compiled Swift code in R, but they’ve involved a bunch of “scary” command line machinations and incantations. One feature of {Rcpp} I’ve always 💙 is the cppFunction() (“r-lib” zealots have a similar cpp11::cpp_function()) which lets one experiment with C[++] code in R with as little… Continue reading
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 learning libraries, specifically the Natural Language one,… Continue reading
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 having hardware components dedicated to improving the performance of built… Continue reading
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 application. The initial chapters focused on core concepts and showed how to build a macOS compiled, binary command line application that uses embedded R for some functionality. This week, a new chapter is up that walks you though… Continue reading
Bringing R to Swift on macOS
Over Christmas break I teased some screencaps: A more refined #rstats #swift "SwiftR" example. Simple Image view + some text views, a color picker and a button that runs R-in-Swift code (like {reticulate} does for Python in R) Note no ssd/hd storage round-trip for the plot. Code snippet: https://t.co/fWaHnztUgd pic.twitter.com/y5m1I16tCB — Caliban's War (@hrbrmstr) December… Continue reading
RSwitch 1.5.0 Release Now Also Corrals RStudio Server Connections
RSwitch is a macOS menubar application that works on macOS 10.14+ and provides handy shortcuts for developing with R on macOS. Version 1.5.0 brings a reorganized menu system and the ability to manage and make connections to RStudio Server instances. Here’s a quick peek at the new setup: All books, links, and other reference resources… Continue reading