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Quick hit: 'dig'-ging Into r-project.org DNS Records with {processx}
The r-project.org domain had some temporary technical difficulties this week (2019-29) that made reaching R-related resources problematic for a bunch of folks for a period of time. Incidents like this underscore the need for regional and…
Quick Hit: Above the Fold; Hard wrapping text at 'n' characters
Despite being on holiday I'm getting in a bit of non-work R coding since the fam has a greater ability to sleep late than I do. Apart from other things I've been working on a PR into {lutz}, a package by @andyteucher that turns lat/lng…
Quick hit: Some ggplot2 Stat ? for {logspline}
I've become a big fan of the {logspline} package over the past ~6 months and decided to wrap up a manual ggplot2 plotting process (well, it was at least in an RStudio snippet) into a small {ggplot2} Stat to make it easier to visualize…
Introducing the {ethercalc} package
I mentioned EtherCalc in a previous post and managed to scrounge some time to put together a fledgling {ethercalc} package (it's also on GitLab, SourceHut, Bitbucket and GitUgh, just sub out the appropriate URL…
Makeover Jambalaya: Beating Dumbbells into Slopegraphs Whilst Orchestrating EtherCalc
This morning, @kairyssdal tweeted out the following graphic from…
Wrapping Up Exploration of John Deere's MowerPlus Database
I did another twitter thread on the aforeblogged MowerPlus database as I explored the tables after a second mow to determine what identified a unique mowing "session" (using John Deere's…
Reader Challenge: Have Some Fun with Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote Subtitles & Show Your Work
I was pretty brutal to Apple earlier this week in a Twitter thread that I tried to craft so it occurred in-line with the WWDC live stream (which might be something you want to remember as/if you read on). I really don't care about…
Make Multi-point "dumbbell" Plots in ggplot2
A user of the {ggalt} package recently posted a question about how to add points to a geomdumbbell() plot. For now, this is not something you can do with geomdumbbell() but with a bit of data wrangling you can do this in a pretty…
Trawling Through iOS Backups For Treasure (a.k.a. How to fish for target files in iOS backups) with R
In a recent previous post I brazenly talked over the "hard parts" of how I got to the target SQLite file that houses "mowing history" for what has become my weekend obsession. So, we'll cover just how to do that (find things in iOS…
Quick Hit: Handling Cocoa Core Data Timestamps in R
For the first time ever we got a new riding mower this weekend. We've always haggled to keep the one sellers were using with any given house we've purchased over the years (that was big enough for a yard that "requires" a riding…