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Yeast-raised Apple Cider Doughnuts
Offspring #4 eats pretty healthy, normally, but likes to indulge in sugary confections on occasion. He was a big help clearing away the massive amount of snow that accumulated in the last winter storm of 2019 so I decided to start the new…
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…
Spelunking macOS 'ScreenTime' App Usage with R
Apple has brought Screen Time to macOS for some time now and that means it has to store this data somewhere . Thankfully, Sarah Edwards has foraged through the macOS filesystem for us and explained where these bits of knowledge are in her…
100% Stacked Chicklets
I posted a visualization of email safety status (a.k.a. DMARC ) of the Fortune 500 (2017 list) the other day on Twitter and received this spiffy request from…
RSwitch 1.5.1 Released
An RSwitch user, lcolladotor filed a most-welcome issue letting me know that the core functionality of the switcher was busted ?. After testing out the 1.5.1 release candidate I had made a "harmless" & "clever" change to reduce some…
Twitter "Account Analysis" in R
This past week @propublica linked to a really spiffy resource for getting an overview of a Twitter user's profile and activity called accountanalysis . It has a beautiful interface that works as well on mobile as it does in a real browser.…
RSwitch 1.5.0 Release Now Also Corrals RStudio Server Connections
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