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Making a Command Line HTML Rendering Script for "The Art of the Command Line" (in R)
The Feedly category I have setup for git-stalking has indicated a fairly massive interest in Joshua Levy's The Art of the Command Line . What is "The Art of the Command Line"? To quote the…
Two New Ways to Make DNS over HTTPS Queries in R
A fair bit of time ago the {gdns} package made its way to CRAN to give R users the ability to use Google's (at that time) nascent support for DNS over HTTPS (DoH). A bit later on Cloudflare also provided a global DoH endpoint and that…
Add Dressbarn to the Continued Retailpocalypse
I've talked about the retailpocalypse before and this morning I was greeted with the news about Dressbarn closing all 650 stores as I fired up a…
Mapping Tornado Alley with R
Harry's thread and Observable post are great on their own and both show the power and utility of Observable javascript…
Quick Hit: Updates to QuickLookR and {rdatainfo}
I'm using GitUgh links here b/c the issue was submitted there. Those not wishing to be surveilled by Microsoft can find the macOS QuickLook plugin project and {rdatainfo} project in SourceHut and GitLab ( ~hrbrmstr and hrbrmstr accounts…
Quick Hit: Scraping javascript-"enabled" Sites with {htmlunit}
I've mentioned {htmlunit} in passing before, but did not put any code in the blog post. Since I just updated {htmlunitjars} to the latest and greatest version, now might be a good time to do a quick demo of…
A Note to Our Community On How To Hide Your Content From Search Engines
Say your organization has done something pretty terrible . Terrible enough that you really didn't want to acknowledge it initially but eventually blogged about it, and haven't added a blog post in a long time so that entry is at the top of…
Lost In [SQL] Translation: Charting d[b]plyr Mapped SQL Function Support Across All Backends
Like more posts than I care to admit, this one starts innocently enough with a tweet by…
A Limited-but-Functional Couchbase Free Text Search & Retrieval Un-package; or, "How I Abused Couchbase & R to Perform Bulk IP Whois Full-text Searches" (a Cobbler's Tale)
Researching "the internet" (i.e. $DAYJOB) means having to deal with a ton of "unique" (I'm being kind) data formats. This is ultimately a tale of how I performed full-text searches across one of…
Wicked Fast, Accurate Quantiles Using ‘t-Digests’ in R with the {tdigest} Package
@teddunning recently updated the t-Digest algorithm he created back in 2013. What is this "t-digest"? Fundamentally, it is a probabilistic data structure for estimating any percentile of distributed/streaming data. Ted explains it quite…