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Nos Autem Non In Antebellum; Bella Iam Inceperat
Every decent human (which excludes 74,222,958 ?? who voted for this, now 100% undeniable, traitor) with knowledge of this past week's tragic events is likely still processing — and will be for a while — what happened; I am no exception.…
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…
It's [Almost] Over; Much Damage Has Been Done; But I [We] Have A Call To Unexpected Action
The last 4+ years — especially the last ~10 months — had taken a bigger personal toll than I realized. I spent much of President-Elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' first speeches as duly & honestly selected…
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…
Aligning the Dots On COVID Prison Waffles
The Marshall Project has a solid story and set of visualizations on the impact of COVID-19 in U.S. prisons. They keep the data (and vis) regularly updated. They do great work and this is an important topic, but this visualization breaks my…