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Rome Was Not Built In A Day But widgetcard Was!
I saw a second post on turning htmlwidgets into interactive Twitter Player cards and felt somewhat compelled to make creating said entities a bit easier so posited the…
Assumptions Matter More Than Dependencies
There's been alot of talk about "dependencies" in the R universe of late. This is not really a post about that but more of a "really, don't do this" if you decide you want to poke the dependency bear by trying to build a deeply flawed…
Handling & Sharing PCAPs Like a Boss with PacketTotal
The fine folks over at @PacketTotal bequeathed an API token on me so I cranked out an R package for it to enable more dynamic investigations work (RStudio makes for an amazing incident responder investigations console given that you can…
Collecting Content Security Policy Violation Reports in S3 ('Effortlessly'/'Freely')
In the previous post I tried to explain what Content Security Policies (CSPs) are and how to work with them in R. In case you didn't RTFPost the TLDR is that CSPs give you control over what can be loaded along with your web content and can…
Head's Up! Roll Your Own HTTP Headers Investigations with the 'hdrs' Package
In the event you wanted to dig deeper I threw together a small package that will let you grab HTTP headers from a given URL and take a look at them. The README has examples for most things but we'll go through a bit of them here as…
IP, User Agent, and Referrer Tracking Disabled on cinc.rud.is and git.rud.is
Not flagging this with an "R" tag since I don't want to spam R-bloggers but I mentioned here that I'd be disabling logging on https://cinc.rud.is and https://git.rud.is and I wanted to follow up on that with an addendum that I've opted to…
CRAN Mirror "Security"
In the "Changes on CRAN" section of the latest version of the The R Journal (Vol. 10/2, December 2018) had this short blurb entitled "CRAN mirror…
htmlunitjars Updated to 2.34.0
The in-dev htmlunit package for javascript-"enabled" web-scraping without the need for Selenium, Splash or headless Chrome relies on the HtmlUnit library and said library just released version 2.34.0 with a wide array of changes that…
drat All The ?! : Enabling Easier Package Discovery and Installation with Your Own CRAN-like Repo for Your Packages
I've got a work-in-progress drat -ified CRAN-like repo for (eventually) all my packages over at CINC ? ("CINC is not CRAN" and it also sounds like "sync"). This is in parallel with a co-location/migration of all my packages to SourceHut…
Cloudy with a chance of Caffeinated Query Orchestration - New rJava Wrappers for AWS Athena SDK for Java
There are two fledgling rJava-based R packages that enable working with the AWS SDK for…