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A Look at PAN-OS Versions with a Bit of R
The incredibly talented folks over at Bishop Fox were quite generous this week, providing a scanner for figuring out PAN-OS GlobalProtect versions. I've been using their decoding technique and date-based fingerprint table to keep an eye on…
The Avatar Is Blue
I've changed my years-long avatar to the blue Cap' shield because the colors of our flag have no business being displayed in any venue until Donald Trump is no longer President (one way or another). The red/white/blue triad has been…
{sergeant} 0.9.0 Is On Its Way to CRAN Mirrors!
Tis been a long time coming, but a minor change to default S3 parameters in tibbles finally caused a push of {sergeant} — the R package that lets you use the Apache Drill REST API via {DBI}, {dplyr}, or directly — to…
RSwitch 1.7.0 Has Been Released
I (and, apparently, Gandalf Oo) are pleased to announce that RSwitch version 1.7.0 has been released . ( Direct Download…
Mining R 4.0.0 Changelog for Nuggets of Gold: #1 stopifnot()
R 4.0.0 has been out for a while, now, and — apart from a case where merge() was slower than dirt — it's been really stable for at least me (I use it daily on macOS, Linux, and Windows). Sure, it came with some headline-grabbing…
Attach Your R Code To Charts You Tweet For Reproducible R Tweets!
I caught this tweet by Terence Eden about using Twitter image alt-text to "PGP sign" tweet and my mind immediately went to "how can I abuse this for covert communications, malicious command-and-control, and embedding R code in…
Dairy-Free No-Fail Biscuits
Cut up shortening into small squares and mix into the dry bits with a pastry…
New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC's New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET
The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC from now on) has setup two new public surveillance resources for COVID-19. Together, COVIDView and COVID-NET provide similar weekly surveillance data as FluView does for influenza-like…
Adzuki & Andouille Soup
Add back sausage and add in everything else and simmer for 45…
{uaparserjs} Updated on CRAN & Using webpack to Make {V8} Application Bundles
Just a quick note that thanks to a gentle nudge an updated version of {uaparser} --- a package that processes User Agent strings web clients send to servers --- is making its way to all the CRAN mirrors and is also available on CINC . The…