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Handling Semantic Version Strings Like a Boss with the semver Package
I work with internet-scale data and do my fair share of macro-analyses on vulnerabilities. I use the R semver package for most of my work and wanted to blather on a bit about it since it's super-helpful for this work and doesn't get the…
Comparing 2017 Maine Lobster Landings To Historical Landings
Tis the season for finding out how well Maine fisherfolk did last year; specifically, Maine lobsterfolk. Most of the news sites in Maine do a feature on the annual landings (here's one from Bangor Daily News). There was a marked decline —…
Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Package
The NPR Visuals Team created and maintains a javascript library that makes it super easy to embed iframes on web pages and have said documents still be responsive. The widgetframe R htmlwidget uses pym.js to bring this (much needed)…
Quick and Clean DMARC Record Processing with "Inline" Rcpp
Much of what I need to do for work-work involves using tools that are (for the moment) not in R. Today, I needed to test the validity of (and other processing on) DMARC records and I'm loathe to either reinvent the wheel or reticulate bits…
The Friday #rstats PuzzleR : 2018-01-26
Time for another look at what's new and interesting in the #rstats world with the help of Peter Meissner's (@marvin\dpr) crossword.r?. The answers to last week's puzzle have been posted (it seemed to make more sense posting the answers a…
The Friday #rstats PuzzleR : 2018-01-19
Peter Meissner (@marvin\dpr) released crossword.r? to CRAN today. It's a spiffy package that makes it dead simple to generate crossword puzzles. He also made a super spiffy javascript library to pair with it, which can turn crossword model…
Bitcoin (World Map) Bubbles
We're doing some interesting studies (cybersecurity-wise, not finance-wise) on digital currency networks at work-work and --- while I'm loathe to create a geo-map from IPv4 geolocation data ---…
Can't Stop at 21: Twitter Recipe #22 — Tying Up Loose Threads
NOTE: The likelihood of this recipe being added to the recent practice bookdown book is slim, but I'll try to keep the same format for the blog…
A bookdown "Hello World" : Twenty-one (minus two) Recipes for Mining Twitter with rtweet
The new year begins with me being on the hook to crank out a book on advanced web-scraping in R by July (more on that in a future blog post). The bookdown? package seemed to be the best way to go about doing this but I had only played with…
R⁶ — Capture Tweets with tweet_shot()
UPDATE 2018-01-01 --- this has been added to rtweet (GH version). A Twitter…