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Dairy-free Parker House Rolls
Here's a quick/easy recipe for soft roll dough that you can use to make dairy-free Parker House rolls, knot rolls or just plain…
Plot the new SVG R logo with ggplot2
High resolution and SVG versions of the new R logo are finally available…
Craft httr calls cleverly with curlconverter
When you visit a site like the LA Times' NH Primary Live Results site and wish you had the data that they used to make the tables & visualizations on the…
Alternate R Markdown Templates
The knitr/R markdown system is a great way to organize reports and analyses. However, the built-in ones (that come with RStudio/the rmarkdown package) rely on Bootstrap and also use jQuery. There's nothing wrong with that, but the…
Cobble XPath Interactively with the xmlview Package
(If you don't know what XML is, you should probably read a primer before reading this…
The Force: Accounted, in R
Despite being a cybersecurity professional, it's pretty easy to social engineer…
iptools 0.3.0 ("Violet Packet") Now on CRAN with Windows Support!
What can you do with it? One thing you can do is take a vector of domain names and turn them into IP…
Paths To Discovery: Mapping Your Home Network
Gone are the days when one had a single computer plugged directly into a modem (cable, DSL or good ol' Hayes). Even the days when there were just one or two computers connected via wires or invisible multi-gigahertz waves passing through…
Zellingenach: A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names in R
Moritz Stefaner started off 2016 with a very spiffy post on "a visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names". Moritz was exploring some new data processing & visualization tools for the post,…
World Map Panel Plots with ggplot2 2.0 & ggalt
James Austin (@awhstin) made some #spiffy 4-panel maps with base R graphics but also posited he didn't use ggplot2…