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hrbrthemes 0.6.0 on CRAN + Other In-Development Package News
Version 0.6.0 of the hrbrthemes ? package should be hitting a CRAN mirror near you soon. Apart from some general documentation and code cleanup this release includes the dark theme folks have been seeing in blog posts and tweets over the…
splashr 0.6.0 Now Uses the CRAN-nascent stevedore Package for Docker Orchestration
The splashr package [ srht | GL | GH ] — an alternative to Selenium for javascript-enabled/browser-emulated web scraping — is now at version 0.6.0 (still in dev-mode but on its way to CRAN in the next 14…
Roll Your Own Federal Government Shutdown-caused SSL Certificate Expiration Monitor in R
By now, even remote villages on uncharted islands in the Pacific know that the U.S. is in the midst of a protracted partial government shutdown. It's having real impacts on the lives of Federal government workers but they aren't the only…
Waffle Geoms & Other Miscellaneous In-Development Package Updates
More than just sergeant has been hacked on recently, so here's a run-down of various ?…
On the Road to 0.8.0 — Some Additional New Features Coming in the sergeant Package
It was probably not difficult to discern from my previous Drill-themed post that I'm fairly excited about the Apache Drill 1.15.0 release. I've rounded out most of the existing corners for it in preparation for a long-overdue CRAN update…
'data:' Scraping & Chart Reproduction : Arrows of Environmental Destruction
Today's RSS feeds picked up this article by Marianne Sullivan, Chris Sellers, Leif Fredrickson, and Sarah Lamdanon on the woeful state of enforcement actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While there has definitely…
Apache Drill 1.15.0 + sergeant 0.8.0 = pcapng Support, Proper Column Types & Mounds of New Metadata
To ring in the new year the Drill team knocked out a new 1.15.0 release with a cadre of new functionality…
Exploring 2018 R-bloggers & R Weekly Posts with Feedly & the 'seymour' package
Well, 2018 has flown by and today seems like an appropriate time to take a look at the landscape of R bloggerdom as seen through the eyes of readers of R-bloggers and R Weekly . We'll do this via a new package designed to make it easier to…
Certifiably Gone Phishing
Phishing is [still] the primary way attackers either commit a primary criminal act (i.e. phish a target to, say, install ransomware) or is the initial vehicle used to gain a foothold in an organization so they can perform other criminal…
More "Scraping Ethics Gone Awry" and "Why Do This When There's a Free API?"
I can't seem to free my infrequently-viewed email inbox from "you might like!" notices by the content-lock-in site Medium. This one made it to the iOS notification screen (otherwise I'd've been blissfully unaware of it and would have saved…